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Tomatoe Plant, Surgey Imminent?

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The storms this weekend damaged one of my tomatoe plants causing the 
plant to split slightly at a major branch junction pretty low on the 
plant. The point at which the split occurred is where I missed a 
sucker a long time ago which began what is now another complete vine 
from the main vine.

It was not completely severed, so today I doctored it back together 
by wrapping with jute twine around the stem at the split point and 
tying off the two vines to the vertical support further up each 
vine (which I should have done before now).

I'm suspicious that I may lose the one main vine altogether, not sure 
if a tomatoe plant will "heal itself' or not? I hated to sever the 
part that split because that is really the "main vine" with the 
survivor originally being a "missed sucker".

I wonder if I went ahead and split this "main vine", is there 
something I could do to jump start it to root and start a new plant? 
Or should I just leave it be and it will heal itself and survive?

Fortunately, I have lots of other tomatoes that survived just fine 
but its funny how you want all of them to survive and prosper 
after you have nurtured them this far. :)

I look forward to any and all replies.

Steve


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