Broken Tayberry!

[stv]

I have today found my newly planted Tayberry has been broken over, i guess by the wind, with only a small part of the stem still intact.
Very disappointing.
Can anyone advise whether it might be worth trying to save it, or cut my loses and purchase a new plant?

[PAULW]

I would be inclined to leave it, it is only a stem that is broken not the root system it should throw up more shoots.

[Speed Gardener]

I'd leave it where it is, after all, it won't fruit this year if it's a new plant. There will be plenty of new shoots this year, just train them onto the wires/frame ready for next year. Keep it quite moist for a few weeks to get the root established and you'll have years of fruiting out of it. Cut the broken stem off if it's badly broken. Having said that, one of my tayberry plants repaired itself, growing a callous around the break and it fruited fine the follwing year, so you could strap it up then tie it in and wait for it to fruit.

[Flummery]

Leave it in - make sure the roots haven't been rocked by the wind, then prune off the broken bit neatly. They fruit on year old wood so you prune out the fruited canes at the end of the year and tie in the new ones. These fruit next year. If you only had a single cane you might get very little fruit this year but next year should be ok. They live a long time so a single season's loss isn't too bad.

[stv]

Great news! I didn't mention it was the main stem and the plant is only about 20cm, but i will try to tie the stem together and add a upright stick to protect it further

Thanks.

[southlondongardener]

I'd leave it where it is, after all, it won't fruit this year if it's a new plant. There will be plenty of new shoots this year, just train them onto the wires/frame ready for next year. Keep it quite moist for a few weeks to get the root established and you'll have years of fruiting out of it. Cut the broken stem off if it's badly broken. Having said that, one of my tayberry plants repaired itself, growing a callous around the break and it fruited fine the follwing year, so you could strap it up then tie it in and wait for it to fruit.

I planted a tayberry last year at the beginning of March and got about 3 punnets of Tayberries which would have cost more than the tayberry cost.

I have high hopes that this Tayberry and the 2 new ones I bought and the cutting will do well this year.