Woke up to see that a Gopher or rabbit ate my favorite plant in the garden, this thing stinks so good and would hate to loose it. I cut the bottom, scraped it up a little, added a drop of super thrive. Wondering if I should put it inside for a couple days out of 95° weather. And tips, tricks, suggestions? I rember when I was a kid I gentle pulled a plant out of a crack in the ground at 711 without the roots and it survived after stripping most the leafs.
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Hope you can salvage it.
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My suggestion
Is treat it like a clone
And let the plant mend itself back to life
Anything can be regrown with the right touch
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In my experience, gophers pull plants under the ground rather than chewing them off at or above ground level.
I once had a tug of war with a gopher over a nasturtium plant. I’d give him a little, then tug back. It lasted about 5 minutes and was fun as hell. Mrs. mota and our friend whose house we were at laughed so hard!
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The gopher should be fine.
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Not for long, little guys going to get tortured when I catch him
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That sucks, i feel for ya! I would take a few clones.
If the root system is still in the ground with a couple inches of stem above ground you could attempt a graft with a splint.
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I HATE those motherlovin’ gophers.
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Leave him some papers
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That sucks!
If it were me… and I really wanted to save it I would clone the heck out of what you have left. The leaves are up and appear to healthy so cloning it should be straight forward.
You could always graft it onto another plant. I will still take clones though (JIC).
just my .02¢
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If it were mine I’d take clones of the smaller branches and not try to save the whole thing.
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