Gardening/Plant HELP!!

[Shollia]

Somebody help me!!
I have some pumpkin plants that I'm growing right now and my biggest one's stem broke
On this other site, people were telling this one person to put their plant (not sure what kind of plant it was) in water and it will grow new roots.
Should I put it ALL in water? Or just the stem? Or.. or what?
It's just now starting to grow I'm guessing it's 3rd? maybe still 2nd pair of leaves.

Here's a pic of what I have it in now. Hopefully someone more familiar with gardening can tell me what I should do more clearly or tell me if it's a lost cause or.. i dunno... anything.
Pllleasse help me. I don't wanna lose my biggest pumpkin plant

[Blk Mage]

If you put the stem inside the water, shouldn't you cut it again like you do to roses to get the water and stuff flowing back. So maybe you should cut it at an angle, if you didn't already. As for the water, you should just put the stem inside water and not the whole thing cause that would be like drowning your whole leaf and it would die for sure. Hopefully i'm onto the right track for something. Hopefully it will survive!

[Flame]

Just the stem. Not the leaves. How you have it looks right. Don't cut the stem at all, just leave it as is.

Now, if it starts to die/not grow roots, then I have further advice for you. Get a pot, fill it with some good soil, and plant your pumpkin stem in it. Then keep the soil soaked for about a 1 to 2 weeks to encourage it to grow roots. Then you just water it regularly.

It worked with a tomato plant I had.

[Shollia]

OK.. so just the stem... should I still be putting it out in the sun? Or should I keep it inside?

And about when should it start growing new roots?

And thank you all (people above me and people who will post) for the help! It's greatly appreciated

[DiscordantNote]

I'd put it in the sun. It's a plant after all, and plants like their sun. I don't know when it'll start growing new roots though...it varies between plants.

[Shollia]

OK.. so stem in water and still place it in the sun. *crosses fingers*
Hope it works!


I have some other plant issues as well. Like my cucumber plants seems to be shriveling and dieing. No idea what would be causing it.
Looks like they're all going to eventually die though So we bought more seeds to plant right in the ground when it gets warmer.
But if anyone has any idea what I could try to get the ones we have better, then please share heh

[ahoteinrun]

OK.. so stem in water and still place it in the sun. *crosses fingers*
Hope it works!


I have some other plant issues as well. Like my cucumber plants seems to be shriveling and dieing. No idea what would be causing it.
Looks like they're all going to eventually die though So we bought more seeds to plant right in the ground when it gets warmer.
But if anyone has any idea what I could try to get the ones we have better, then please share heh

What color are your cucumbers turning before they die? If they're too wet, they could be wilting because they'd be drowning. It happens. Or they could be drying out. I suggest you go to a well known garden center with actual knowledgable people to ask questions (or maybe try phoning?).
This is why I let my parents do the gardening. The only things I can grow are potatos (mmm...) carrots (double mmm...) and radishes. And cooking herbs like oregano and thyme and such. Most plants seem to wilt and die under my touch... seriously I go home to Edmonton, and my mom fills my rooms with plants... and they all start to die. (I think it's actually the fumes from all my art supplies... and the fact that this one time, I was really lazy and I may've dumped paint thinner into one of the uglier plants pots... but it was dying anyways).

Hrm hum. (Please don't tell my mom)

[Shollia]

Heh...
Well they're still green when they start to shrivel up.
It starts with the middle of their stems and then eventually the leaves start to wilt.
I can't see how they're getting over watered b/c the pot I have them in drains really well, and I make sure to keep the soil nice and moist.
*shrugs*
it's sad to see my cucumber plants die, but I'm hoping the ones we're gonna plant right in the ground do well.

[krisgp]

a little off topic- but my mum and i have a death touch when it comes to plants. poor pepper plants never saw us comming.... anyway, i planted some lettuce before i left for camp and when i came home, it was up to my waist! mum didn't know when to cut it and had just been picking the leaves off as she needed them! it was really cool... my guinea pigs has lettuce forever!

[Sapphire Faerie]

I managed to kill a Chia Pet. Those little things where you just add water. Seriously, the base sits inside a plastic tray. You keep the tray filled with water. The water is absorbed by the porous base, which carries it to the plants, which grow around the outside of the base.
It sprouted and grew for a few days and then died. ;_;

[VeraX]

I think what your doing is right, but don't take my word for it.


Afterall, I killed a plant in two days. Shriveled up and died.

[Flame]

For the cucumber plants, my suggestion is to put the water in the little base, and let the plant suck up the water it needs through the drainage hole in the bottom of the pot. That will prevent overwatering if it's occurring.


For your pumpkins, just keep them in the sun. I honestly can't tell you how long it will take, but if you go over 3 weeks, then er...that won't be good.

[krisgp]

I managed to kill a Chia Pet. Those little things where you just add water. Seriously, the base sits inside a plastic tray. You keep the tray filled with water. The water is absorbed by the porous base, which carries it to the plants, which grow around the outside of the base.
It sprouted and grew for a few days and then died. ;_;

i killed something like that! it grew grass out of a plastic head. I thikn it either dried out or drowned... not quite sure which... all i wanted was enough grass to keep my piggys happy through the winter! sigh. they were happy too... til mr grass head died. that was a sad, sad day.

[Shollia]

Hard to keep my lil plants outside since it's been pouring cats and dogs for a few days.
My cucumbers are slowly getting worse though.
Some of them still look ok, but most of them have shriveled up already.
I'm afraid all will soon follow though if I don't plant them outside soon, but I can't do that yet because we had to kill ants and weeds and now the weather is going crazy with cold temps and pouring rain!
heh

Again.. thanks for the help all

[Charisma]

Hard to keep my lil plants outside since it's been pouring cats and dogs for a few days.
My cucumbers are slowly getting worse though.
Some of them still look ok, but most of them have shriveled up already.
I'm afraid all will soon follow though if I don't plant them outside soon, but I can't do that yet because we had to kill ants and weeds and now the weather is going crazy with cold temps and pouring rain!
heh

Again.. thanks for the help all

Ants ...I need to find a good indoor bait or pesticide, we are getting swarmed with them. I want to get an exterminator but it's expensive, we have an ant problem at work too. I guess it's the house, I read that they are very common in the US and live in the mulch and rotting wood. Must get rid of all mulch!!!!

Anyhow, my mom tried to make a little garden in our backyard once. I don't think she's ever done gardening before. We had cabbages and carrots and tomatoes. This wild rabbit started eating our cabbage and then the tomatoes out of nowhere green the nastiest green worms O_O. I'm not into all that stuff since then, I just couldn't deal with all the pests that attack the veggies. We didn't want to use pesticides and so the worms had a feast. I know now of some safe ways to remove pests though, but it's too late. The bunny was lucky it was so cute, or else it would have been soup . The only thing we have that is supposed to give fruit is a banana plant and our tree on the side of the house is a plum tree. The banana plant can't be outside though and the pot is getting too small for it so unless we get more soil for it it will probably die.

Good luck with your plants though. I know what you mean about the rain, it's rained here for the past two days and it was storming bad earlier today.