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| An errant wiffleball landed on my Black Zebra breaking off one of the larger branches near the center of the stem. I pinched it off and below is what it looks like. Is this injury going to be fatal to the plant at this young age? Should I just replace it with another plant from my local nursey while supply is still available?
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| Not to worry, the plant will be fine. |
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| Ed, thanks for the vote of confidence. My knowledge of raising tomatoes is limited because in the past I used to have 24+ plants so losing one was not an issue. However, at my new house I am down to 12 plants due to space constraints so every plant counts. The fact that this plant is very young (I started it indoors from seed in mid-April) had me a little concerned. How does losing a branch affect the health of a plant? How does a plant recover? Is there anything that I should do to prevent the possiblity of disease? Should anything be applied to the wounded stem? |
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- Posted by SunshineZone7 none (My Page) on Tue, May 28, 13 at 9:27
| I am no expert but people do prune the bottom branches off so they don't touch the ground and the plants are fine. I don't think losing that branch will have any affect at all. |
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| Happens all the time and is normally no problem. The plants do fine. Lots of discussions here about 'broken branch'. Dave |
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This post was edited by digdirt on Tue, May 28, 13 at 11:06
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| What about this guy? I had plastic sheeting covering my beds this past weekend and one of the wind gusts lifted my sheeting causing a plank of wood (which was weighing down the plastic during the daytime) to crash on the plant severing two branches with the larger being one of the top two branches of the plant. The arrow in the pic is pointing to the bigger branch that was lost.
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| The one in the second pic will be fine too. I believe I can see where it is already starting to grow a new leader, or main stem, from the place the stem broke. If not, one of the so called "suckers" (new lateral brances) will become your new main stem. Overall, both your plants look great, but when the plants get a bit taller, you may want to remove any leaves that touch the growing medium. Betsy |
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| Yeah, that's why I don't prune plants. They are extremely resilient. Whenever a branch goes missing, two replace it :-) Yes, it will be fine too. |
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| Thanks, you guys saved me a trip and a few bucks for new plants. |
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