Bug hole in main stalk. How to clean/seal it? UPDATE W PIC

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#41

It’s not a sealer. It’s a hormone that is part of the healing response. E.g. the plant is healing whether you add the hormone or not. Additional hormones (auxins, IBA, IAA) has been shown, experimentally, as a key component in that process. It could possibly improve the healing response. I don’t have access to explicit experiments that show this but it is entirely plausible just like other manipulations using hormones.

I don’t see anything wrong with trying this as long as the concentrations are sufficiently low … else it can have the opposite effect. Would be nice to do an experiment across a purposeful injury against a control.

You can get away with insults in the tank but that will not last long outside of there.

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#42

We are speaking about a wounded stem, so the callus wouldn’t be the one you refer.

When you see holes in trees it is recommended to seal them, as water accumulated on them tend to rot them.

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I read somewhere Clonex could be used also to seal wounds, now that I know that it has got IBA on it that helps to promote callus I understand better what it does. Maybe treating with Spinosad, applying Clonex gel and putting breathable medical tape can be the solution.

I don’t understand why you state my advice is wrong, would it harm the plant? Is it better doing nothing as it has been suggested?

I don’t understand people that keep away from helping but instantly appear when they think they can correct a “newbie”, what are you trying to demonstrate?

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#43

Is an experiment in order? Maybe. But the problem is inexperienced users passing off complete conjecture as advice. I believe the user I’m referring to also told someone to boil banana skins to fix a K deficiency. Point is, I think it’s plainly obvious when people simply don’t know what they’re talking about, and I think it’s important to relate that to the person asking advice, before they take this pure conjecture as gospel.

Look at George’s actual user page. It literally, verbatim, at this moment says: “still a newbie”.

I’m out of this thread, this isn’t going anywhere.

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#44

Kind of looks like the plant got stepped on or twisted earlier in it’s life and the spot swelled and split

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#45

It can be used to seal wounds on fresh cuts. In this instance the plant had already callused and was mostly healed. If it was a new break maybe clonex may help it heal faster, but with this being outside there are probably better options to handle the weather.

That was in regards to the statement below… Which in this case the plant has already healed itself. It wouldn’t harm the plant but at this point it would be a waste of clonex.

@RandomHumanoid is from Michigan, gotta look out for my homies.

#46

And also Favorite strain: What’s a strain? Do you also think I don’t know what is it? Irony, modesty and sense of humour is something you seem not be able to detect.

Bananas have a lot of Potassium, that tea is a cheap way to give it your plants, what’s wrong with it? It is not a conjecture, it is a fact.

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#47

When I was younger in the 60’s Dad taught me to always paint seal plant patch a cut fruit tree limb or break. Then as the yrs passed it changed over to open air on the wound, it has been found that the sealing does more damage to tree when sealer is used nowadays to avoid further problems. Just did a decorative weeping cherry last yr that had bugs and water damage to large bark area. Cut the whole section of bark off back to new life and then just leave it.
Tree is back to full health today.
But clonex may be helpful as a bacteria deterrent . Not sure myself
But open to learn new things myself.

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#48

Then I have nothing to say about that :sweat_smile:, I understand your point of view, just was a little bit reluctant because of the unnecessary personal attacks. If I bring information from the Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica or product webpage the fact I am or not new grower doesn’t affect at all.

As the OP talked about “today” I thought it was recent, maybe you’re right and if it is an old wound my recipe won’t work.

What we should look is for an optimal solution for the OP, this is lost when starting with ad hominem remarks and questioning the experience or not of the one who makes a proposal.

Explaining things like now you did makes me understand better and will be next time more prepared if someone has again this problem. You should not avoid people willing to help not to do so, especially when people who could really help remain in the shade.

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#49

Good to know, I still see “painted” trees recently trimmed around. When I do so I just leave the branch wit a 45 degree angle so the water doesn’t rest … :sunglasses:

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#50

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#51

I know where you got that picture! :+1: :sunglasses:

Cheers
G

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#52

It was a good example of what happens if you don’t seal-protect-clean a wound in a stem ejem|nullxnull. I was going to put some Copyright but didn’t want to make publicity of your disasters … box|nullxnull frech|nullxnull

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#53

LOL anything I post is open license! No worries! :+1: :sunglasses:

Cheers
G

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#54

One thing I did find in that grow was irrigating the wound with a 3% solution of Hydrogen Peroxide (using one of those curved tip syringes) a few times. That really stomped out botrytis and got got the branch healing.
By harvest, one wound was completely healed over and the other was better than 50%. I thought about slicing the edges of the wound to promote closure but that would have introduced too many variables.

Cheers
G

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#55

I had just noticed it minutes before I posted, but after chillin out and looking at it more while probing the hole(good idea, and a relief), I realized it looked like a little older wound. I think I’m just gonna keep an eye on it, and order some clonex gel right now, just in case something gets worse. I want some anyway, so I can try my hand at clones. I’m gonna check it every day for sure.

I just noticed I misspelled humanoid. oops

thanx for all the help everyone

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#56

Nah, that’s an old mostly healed up wound. its a good pic. It looks a lot like a branch was snapped off close to the stalk. It may be newly discovered, but it’s not new.

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#57

You’re right, I firstly saw it in my mobile so not clear enough hum|nullxnull , just had recently discovered Clonex other uses, as it is something we almost have at home might come handy to share it, I wiill next time deeply study the whole dossier before posting empollon|nullxnull , appreciate your remarks on this … beer3|nullxnull

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#58

Your cool George! No worries :sunglasses:

Cheers
G

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#59

for a quick update, That hole squeezed its cheeks and closed that hole up. By far my best plant now. I had had a couple set backs. I mulched, overfed, overwatered, then it stormed, and in a moment of insanity I over watered again and drowned everybody… I’m more of a reader than a poster, so I researched and realized the what I did + the heat wave locked up potassium intake. So I pulled the mulch back for breathing, and left them alone. Then changed the feed and went light a week later. Everyone is happy again. Burned some leaves, but we got new ones now :slight_smile: I’m gonna switch and add a lil pic porn from my phone. Notice the garder snake guarding my plant? She can live under there for all I care. I like snakies :slight_smile:
Also, thanx LemonadeJoe for fixing my name. People should at least have to read my crap before realizing I’m a bonehead. Cant spell humanoid if I had a few beers. durrrr

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