Unintended Zeus Trimming, is it dead?

[shoshin]

Hi All,

I live in Baltimore, and I planted a healthy CTZ rhizome a couple of months ago. It gets great sunlight all day, and up until this afternoon it was growing quite strongly (probably over 3 feet tall climbing some twine on my front porch). It only had one bine break the surface of the soil, so I let that bine ride. The local kid who cuts the grass very enthusiastically cut the sucker off almost at the dirt with a weed wacker. There is a pair of leaves still attached to the bine coming out of the ground, and I want to hope that all is not lost. Is there any hope? Will my root die? Will I have any chance for growth after this? Can someone peer into the future? I just want to know how much hope I should have for some recovery.

 

[aeviaanah]

It should be fine...keep it In partial sun till it recovers...don't let the soil dry out but don't over water.


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[kirbcheck]

I've been told not to trim back first year plants. But seeing as it's been assaulted with a string trimmer, I would say cut it at the ground and hope for the best. Even if it doesn't produce another vine this year, I may work on establishing a root system and come up like crazy next year (This happened with my Columbus, which I think is the same thing). I'd also recommend some kind of fencing in the future so the kid knows there's something there next time. Good luck!

 

[Chrisl77]

If you still have a set of leaves left on it there should still be nodes where side arms will start growing. Hopefully 2 new growth tips will grow from those nodes. One will be dominate and grow as the new tip. Get some wire mesh or short fence to make a ring around it so it dosnt happen again.

 

[shoshin]

Excellent, thanks all for the reassurance


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