New Grower Horrible accident! need HELP!

[DudeManBro]

I was growing Northern Strom Auto in a super stealth grow box in a speaker. ot was day 44 for the plant, and it was flowering for a week. so one day i opened the speaker and found that my heavy lamp of 2 cfl bulbs crashed on my plant! and how i could understood it was lying on my plant for few hours, and it burned it a bit. i was fucking shocked, i was high, and i havent got time to do anything.
i just pulled lights back again, and had to leave the broken plant as it is.
only next day i was home again, at that moment plant was in horrible condition. i took of some dead leafs and dead small branches. and tied some wire where i could. there very little space there and no space to put hands in to fix something.
now its day 46 for plant, as you can see where stem has broken, all that part of stem turned brown and two times thiner. but still there should have been a nice colla, and something of that has left and appears to continue growing.
But the rest part of plant where stem is heathy, and from where all the brenches grow from it is still green and healthy.
So my question is do i have to try spraying that stem with water on regular basis and hope that it will survive, and get back to normal?
Or should i cut the stem in part where it becomes brown( marked with blue), and let the other branches grow in more space? will plant survive without upper part of main stem?

 

[AndyBotwin]

Sorry to hear about the troubles! In the past when I've had a partially broken stem or branch, I've wrapped the spot in tape and the plant has survived. If it was early in the grow I would suggest cutting it off, but at day 46 you may be able to salvage something from the main cola if it will keep growing. If not, chop it and get what you can from the lower branches.

 

[DudeManBro]

thanks for fast reply. i was too late to try wrapp it with tape it was already browny and thin. it wont be a problem if it would just span somewhere it also was burned a bit and had a heavy weight on it for several hours.

 

[DudeManBro]

it would be better if i could chop that part off. because i was running out of space, though. i will leave it as it is for few days. but i still want to know is it safe to chop that part?

 

[AndyBotwin]

it would be better if i could chop that part off. because i was running out of space, though. i will leave it as it is for few days. but i still want to know is it safe to chop that part?

Sure, if it's damaged beyond recovery, no need having the plant waste energy on it. I'd dry it and cure it anyway, as it likely has some potency. I've accidentally broken off branches around day 50 and found the cured bud to still be better than a lot of the crappy street weed you find around. If nothing else, it can go in the trim pile and used to make hash one day.

 

[beenjammin]

You should be safe to chop it. I did the same thing on my last grow the light actually broke the main cola for me it ended up growing out the sides higher cause it was still in veg(not a true auto). I also seen online people cut the main cola so it purposely grows wider rather than vertically. Good luck