Will they survive :(?

[New_Bud]

Okay, so I put my repotted tomato plant in the grow house on the top shelf where my coriander plants are as well. I leave them alone after the watering and I come back and somehow the tomato pot has toppled over, taking the corriander seedlings with it.

Luckily the coriander soil simply fell out and the seedlings were mainly unharmed. I recovered three of the four leafed seedlings and two seeds with roots, I repotted them.

The tomato plant however was a different story. The pot fell and the soil with it but luckily it was staked and the stem remained un damaged, the weaker lower side shoots were ripped off. The roots however were desimated. Well desimated is a bit dramatic; the lower third of the roots were torn with the soil, leaving some hanging from it, still attatched though.

I carefully repotted it and fed it with an all round feeder meant to help leaf and root development, but when I got to the plant the side stems were allready wilting slightly, the leaves were okay.

I was so sad all the careful tending after rescuing it from the garden centre to be undone in the time it takes to fall, I guess I feel like i failed it; I brought it from the garden centre just for it to be destroyed.

Will they survive this? Are there enough roots left to support my plant which is roughly 25cm high, formerly in a 10cmish wide pot, roots grown all around the soil within, 1/3ish missing.

Also will the coriander be okay? they weren't very developed and because they were in a 28cm wide pot the roots weren't damaged, please help and tell me if theres anything i can do to help my plants! It was so freakish I dont know why it even happened

[TracyP]

can't say for sure, but my courgette was ripped out and the roots torn sch that there were few roots left attached - it was a very sad wee plant indeed, it really looked dead. I potted it and put it in the greenhouse and it's now flowering.

Hope it's ok for you

[smallblueplanet]

Your repotted tomato, with the damaged roots would probably recover more quickly if you don't stress it too much - so don't put it in direct hot sunlight. Keep it somewhere fairly even temperature and see how it goes. Try not to overwater the roots either.

[SarzWix]

Make sure you pile compost up round the bottom of the stem, it will grow some new roots out of the stem Just remove any leaves or shoots which start yellowing or die off, keep the compost moist (but not waterlogged), and don't feed it anymore until it looks like it's recovered a bit - too much feed can stress a plant as much as too little can! Other than that, you could try and protect from the wind & rain - maybe bring it indoors overnight for a week or so?

[terrier]

Aw,shucks,sob story An' I bet you're cruel to puppies an' spiders as well Havn't we all done it at some time (in my case more times as I get older). Replant your tomato plant a few inches deeper and it should grow new roots from the stem. It just means you'll get fruits a few weeks later than you would have done before. I don't think your corriander will mind being repotted as long as the stems are not damaged.

[New_Bud]

I love puppies, and I never kill spiders, so ner"
Thanks guys for all of for help! The plant has actually perked up this morning and the side stems are no longer dropping. I had allready planted it deeper and by coinsidence piled it around the stem to support it and set it into place so fingers crossed.
Corriander is looking okay, hopefully it will be fine, they were only babies anyway so there isnt much damage to repair!
I really hope they're ok!

[lynda66]

if you love spiders so much .... please come round and remove the tarantula from my shed, i daren't go in there

i just dropped a whole tray upside down, i'm currently having a brew and deciding the best way forward all the compost is still in the modules it's just upside down on my kitchen floor, if i use cardboard, i'll prob chop the heads off everything, but then everythings probably broken anyway ...... it's too early for all this thinking lol

[zazen999]

If you've got spiders, you haven't got mice. That's what I tell myself anyway - as we've got loads of spiders - or it seems that way now we are living in the country.

[lynda66]

yeah, but the damned thing has been in my shed for the last 3 1/2 years, since before i moved in, and i want to get in there and clean all the crap out, but i'm too scared of it, and the worst bit is, it must have had babies, cos theres another massive one moved in this year at the back of the shed

and everyone who says i'm not scared of spiders, takes one look and says i'm not going near that ..... flipping men are useless.

i'd rather have the mice.

[janto]

cant a mate box it up then you could post it to a zoo unless you are over stating the size.ha ha ha

[lynda66]

no one will go near the damned thing ....... honest it's a garden spider though, not a tropical one, so i doubt if a zoo would want it, and no one will go near it to put it in the box ...... i even put it on freecycle, shed spider free to nice shed, and no one wanted it

[New_Bud]

catch it and measure it, it may break a guiness world record for the largest garden spider?

[lynda66]

you catch it, you measure it, and you can ring the guinness book of records, and you can keep the spider, and have the record

apparently they are only supposed to live for a couple of years, this was here when i moved in 3 1/2 years ago, and it's definitely bigger than most lol ..... yukkkkkkkk

[Demeter]

*shudder*
Makes me think of Aragog...
(How do you know it's the same one?)

[lynda66]

cos i keep checking in the hope that it's dead, and it keeps dropping spider cases on the floor, which terrify me too, cos at first i think they are spiders