okay, I dunno if this is the right place to post this, but I need help! I bought some plumie (noid) cuttings in chefmike's coop over on DG about 4 or 5 years ago. I ended up just keeping one. After growing veeery sloooooowly the first couple of years, it finally got some growth last year and bloomed for the first time. This year it grew to 8 feet tall, and started blooming about a month ago. Oh, yes! Gorgeous! Love it! Worth the wait! LOL. It had one big Y from last year, and had started Y's along each of those.
So, imagine how upset I was when I came home the other day and found one whole piece of the initial Y just broken off.
About a foot up from the Y. I don't know and can't imagine what happened to it, unless a squirrel got on it with a pogo stick or something, but there it was.
I don't know what to do about it. I don't really know nothin' about these plants, except that they're beautiful. So, what will happen to my original plant? Will it be okay and make new growth on that side?
I cut off a foot-long piece from the broken one, to callous over and then stick. After that, the part that's left is about 30 inches and still has this year's Y's and flowers. I stuck that in a pitcher of water, mostly to see if the flowers would keep opening, but also to see if it would root that way. But the only cuttings I've ever seen were cut at both ends and hardened, and never a Y, so I don't know if that was the right thing to do.
Any suggestions?
