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#273426 Apr 10th, 2009 at 11:43 AM
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Hello folks bear with me, I am new to Horticulture but serious need some help .I also don't know plant terminology so please be patient with me. I broke the stem on my friends small house plant. It was in the kitchen in the drying bin at the time, I just finished watering it and I hit an aluminum oven tray and it came slamming down on top of the plant and broke the stem. The wood support (I don't know the term for it)is also broke. Is there a stem band aid or something I can use? I am not sure I don't know what to do, can somebody help please? Thanks Forum.

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Chala #273471 Apr 10th, 2009 at 04:41 PM
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Welcome! It will help if you can get a picture. There aren't any 'plant bandages' that I am away of. You could try some grafting wax, or a slit straw to cover the wound if the part is still hanging on (if it wasn't totally severed from the plant). Putting a support of some sort (like a bamboo cane) and clipping the plant to it (with a hair clip) to keep the wound straight will help also.

When you say wood support, is it a part of the plant (like a trunk or branch?) or is it a support to support the plant (like a stick, or a trellis, etc.)? Almost every plant can make new roots from a piece of itself (ie: you can stick a spring of fresh mint in a pot of dirt and it'll form roots and grow) but it's not always successful depending on the plant you're doing it to (we call it taking a 'cutting') The new plant will grow and bloom the same colour as the plant where the cutting was taken from.


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kennyso #273522 Apr 10th, 2009 at 07:12 PM
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Do you know what kind of plant it is? or do you have a picture of the whole thing?

Ashlee #273538 Apr 10th, 2009 at 07:50 PM
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That looks like a lucky bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana). I can't really tell what's broken. The brown stalk seems to have already died, and the green stalk is doing fine (it's common to sprout a 'side shoot' instead of growing out of the top of the thicker green stalk). If the branch that broke off has 'rings' on the stem (looks like bamboo) you can stick it in water and it should grow new roots.


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When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. Mary Ann LaPensee

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