Wind Damage

[chickenwhisperer]

Yesterday it was really windy here in Sac, and I got some damage to my plants.
A few stalks of corn blew over and feel like they snapped at the dirt-level...
The tops of my tomato plants that stuck above the cage snapped too.

The plants are still intact, but they are breaks not just leaning over.
Neither one seems like its dying...

Shall I get some long bamboo and stake em up or just let things be?
Should I cut the broken tomato branches completely off? There are tomatos coming in on those parts already...

The corn I should suspect is used to this sort of thing?


What confuses me right now is that this wind damage is very similar to a thing I just found on youtube while researching what to do, it is called "super-cropping" where folks basically break their medical cannabis plants on purpose to increase the yield I believe...

Anyways, what is my next step with these plants, the tomato plants are the ones I care the most about, if the corn cant be saved... oh well.

 

[so lucky]

I've had broken tomato plants to keep on growing and producing, just with an unsightly bend. On the corn, I don't have any experience with that. Hope yours recover.

 

[desertlady]

If the stalk didnt break, just bent, it might have a chance. but keep it watered. tie it to bamboo poles .

 

[digitS']

You can do a google image search for "florida weave" tomato support.

However . . . I have not done this for tomatoes - for which it is somewhat popular. I've done it for sweet corn . It is just stakes in a row with plants between the stakes. Twine is woven in and out and tied to the stakes. It should work for tomato plants - quick and easy, but it works for corn also. Given a few days, maybe some hilling with soil, the corn should regain its upright growth.

I think you've gotten good advice on the tomatoes. Really, your season is so long - you could prune anything off at this time of year and expect productive regrowth of the plants.

Here's Wishing You the Best of Luck.

Steve

 

[chickenwhisperer]

You always know what to say Steve!

Maybe I fuss too mush over my plants...

I cut a dead branch off the tomatoes, and the corn got staked similar to how you described.

Plants are tougher than I give em credit for I think...