"Arri London" > wrote in message
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> "Paul M. Cook" wrote:
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>> While cleaning out my tomato pots and trimming my plants I noticed my
>> yellow
>> pear had 2 main branches of 4 that had broken spots. It looked like the
>> branch had been twisted like a dish rag aka wrung out. The leaves were
>> still alive but the breaks did not look good. It looked like the plant
>> had
>> tried to grow downward against the tomato stakes trying to make them grow
>> upwards. The breaks were brownish looking and seemed really week. I
>> went
>> ahead and cut them off losing 1/3 of my plant in the process and most of
>> my
>> young tomatoes.
>>
>> Did I over react? I was thinking those limbs would never be viable and a
>> drain on the plant in the end. Plus I was worried about bug
>> infiltration.
>> Will it recover? Sure doesn't look good at the moment.
>>
>> Paul
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> Might have overreacted a bit. When dealing with broken stems of plants,
> we normally try straightening them out gently and then taping over the
> weak part to support it. It often (but not always) is enough for that
> stem to recover and grow normally.

Yeah, I thought about that. Though about making a splint for it. The
vascular system was damaged but the stalk was not dead. I'll do that next
time. I'm hoping it is early enough in the season that it won't matter.
Already the emplt space is filling in with leaves from the other stalks but
they don;t look like they'll be growing any buds soon.

Paul