I cracked my branches, not pinched to train

Okay, I messed up. I dunno what I was thinking, but was showing a friend my lady that has been really stretching. Instead of pinching, I bent the branch until I heard a crack. Actually until I heard two cracks. I did two branches, the main ones that had been topped two weeks before. It has been two days and they have actually begun to grow up and they seem fine at this point.

Question.
Is this the type of stress that can cause a plant to hermie? Overly aggressive training techniques (or improper ones)

Will I have to worry about these branches completely breaking under weight of bud as plant matures and goes into heavy flower? Will it heal at the crack and become stronger than before? One will happen IMO

And FWIW, next time i will pinch till I hear a pop, not bend.

BTW, I had just flipped about a week ago. Plant was in preflower for some time. <<<if this matters

No --- extreme high heat and light differences will cause hermies - but a lot of times it's in the genetic's any growing method like you mentioned will not cause hermies . Consider "tie-ing" "staking" (budded branches of some how supporting the heavy branches. All ways try to keep "stress" at a mimumin. How long in pre-flower stage?

That's fine. The bent area will develop a "knuckle" that will be much stronger than previously was. Plant will be kinked but will eventually grow upright again. Isn't that supercropping? Next time grab the part of the plant u want to bend over and gently roll the stem between ur fingers until it keels over. This will do the same thing without cracking the stem open.

KingBlunted said:

Next time grab the part of the plant u want to bend over and gently roll the stem between ur fingers until it keels over. This will do the same thing without cracking the stem open.

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Yea, thanks. I was worried about actually breaking the membrane (skin of the stem?) and possibly opening plant to disease. Next time I will roll stem till it keels over.

Toaster D said:

Yea, thanks. I was worried about actually breaking the membrane (skin of the stem?) and possibly opening plant to disease. Next time I will roll stem till it keels over.

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I pinch , bend , snap, twist, crack, pop, and any other thing you can think of. I do it all, this is a hardy ass plant and will take what you throw at it.

It will do one of these knuckle repairs. I LST'd my auto and broke the stem to a thread almost a week ago. Side by side, my other auto that was LST fine, and both same exact age/strain, there was no difference in size etc.

Toaster D said:

Yea, thanks. I was worried about actually breaking the membrane (skin of the stem?) and possibly opening plant to disease. Next time I will roll stem till it keels over.

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