Update:
It’s nearly the end of the day and the decapitated upper stem is about as flaccid and shocked as you might expect. The main stem is holding some rigidity but the leaves are like wet paper. There’s still a chance it’ll pull through, but I’d be surprised if it does.
On the other hand, the remaining lower stem look to be fine even though it really only has one mature node. The growth tips that were barely distinguishable this morning are 3-4x larger already. Plants are magic.
In the meantime if your looking for better beans, maybe check out some of these:
Gosh, I’ve been staring at the trading post giveaways all week but I’m still TL1 so I can’t participate yet. I think someone told me earlier in the thread that I should still be able to use the trading post anyway, just not seed runs, but I’m pretty sure I’ve confirmed that I’ve got to wait until TL2.
I appreciate it anyway @blowdout2269 
I’m not sure about that. I thought TL1 could edit a wiki. Hell, what do I know. You should check out this:
https://overgrow.com/t/explaining-user-trust-levels-and-permissions/1324/327
And most definitely this:
You need to be at least a Member (trust level 2) or Supporter to participate in Trading Post category.
Found it. Maybe I’ll hit up the patreon and skip the red tape.
Oh yeah, there’s that too! 
Done. Happy to give back to the community since y’all have been so generous with the lovely beans.
Sweet. What an awesome gesture!
Morning update:
Upper foliage is putting up a good fight; I was surprised to see the stem straightened out over night. It was crooked quite dramatically from both the bend I made and compensatory uplift. The leaves are still quite floppy but the upper immature leaves have a modicum of turgidity. Overall prognosis has improved but still not anywhere near good health.
The lower segment still looks to be taking it well. The growth tips have gotten so big so fast; it’s cool to see, but overall there’s not a lot to report on.
What’s super cool is seeing the contrast between the two segments. The upper stem segment was putting out a lot of itty-bitty growth tips before it got detached, but while it’s been trying to root, they’ve barely grown (if at all). The lower stem’s growth tips have outpaced them wildly.
Night time scoop:
Upper Segment:
Appears to have backslid. The leaves are droopier than this morning and you can just make out some discoloration on the distal leaf in the photo.
Lower Segment:
Absolute powerhouse. Those growth tips aren’t even there 2 days ago. I’ve got some plant wire on the way and I’ll start attempting training in the near future.
FYI clones will always look kinda crapy for the first week or two.
It’s another day and growth has been good! Looks like the upper segment is doing A-OK and the new leaves are maturing quickly! I have no doubt that it’ll be ok.
The lower segment is, of course, still droopy as hell. The lowest leaves are turning yellow at the tips and discoloration is spreading medially. The thought crossed my mind that maybe I could clip the bottom fans for better “growth focus” but I’m under the impression that that would just add more stress and decreases carb sources for the plant so I’m going full LITFA. I suspect that the yellowing is a consequence of dipping deep into those carb stores.
Anyway, I’ll probably post pics at the end of the week unless anyone wants to see how they’re coming along. I don’t want to over post images for the OG server’s sake
Plant ties came in today! I’m also fantasizing about making Timelapse footage; I haven’t seen others do it and I love watching them.
New growth on the lower looks healthy and is growing quickly but asymmetrically; one side faster than the other. The upper is becoming more yellow at the lower leaves but does not appear rotten so hope remains.
Peace
Well, I’ve found mites. Looks like neem oil is in my future.
I would go for something a tad more deliberate.
What would you suggest?
Have you identified the mites? Are you sure they are not beneficials? Are they on the foliage?
They appear to be winter grain mites, which really sucks because I have no idea why they would be where they are. I’ve caught them munching on leaves and they leave scabby, silver-grey dead spots on the leaves that look a lot like crop circles, but much straighter.
I’ve been leaving an open, clean milk jug full of water to let some RO water dechlorinate near the plants and noticed a cluster of mites dead in the water. I also happened to watch an informative video about bed bugs earlier in the day and learned that bed bugs are attracted to vertical objects! That got me wondering if it’s true for plant-eating mites as well, so here’s a little experiment.
Research: Bed bugs are attracted to vertical objects and are parasitic. Mites can be parasitic to plants, and plants are vertical.
Hypothesis: Mites that eat plants are attracted to vertical objects.
Methods: I took the RO water milk jug and placed between my plants and the corner of the wall where mites were the most abundant to the naked eye. The jug alone is about an inch shorter than the potted plant, so it makes a good vertical surface replacement. I left the jug there over night.
Results: A ton of mites are on and in the the jug this morning and I don’t see quite as many on the plants.
Conclusion & Discussion: Obviously this is a pretty crappy experiment, but it does seem that the mites were at least distracted by the vertical object in their path.I kind of hoped that they’d crawl into the jug and die in the water like before but a lot of them don’t seem to care. The number floating dead in the water has almost quintupled. Holy dang.
@JohnnyPotseed posted a great organic pesticide solution on here recently. I’ll find it.
Here it is!
