broken butternut squash!

[tanyatom]

hi everyone! i have a bit of a problem... when i went to get my butternut squash plant in from acclimatising for the the day, i accidently dropped it and the bottom of the stem snapped
it was still attached a little, so i quickly repotted it in the hope it will re-root.
am i wishful thinking? is there anything else i can do to help it or is it a lost cause

[Jandra]

Squash are tough. Good chance it will survive. I've had them mostly eaten by slugs (including the growing tip) and they'd just bounce back. Does take a couple of weeks though.

Keeping fingers crossed, Jandra

[Millymollymandy]

A lot of squash will root from the stem as they are sprawling over the ground, so I don't see why it shouldn't do as long as you have buried the broken bit by planting it deeper than it was before. It is worth a try anyway so let us know if it comes back to life! Good luck.

[tanyatom]

ah thanks everyone! he seems to have perked up a bit, so hopefully it's worked : )
gonna giv it a bit longer for new roots to grow before i repot it.
thanks also for the tip with the wax, will remember that!

Tx

[Millymollymandy]

Goodo, here's hoping you get lots of fruit from it!

[Peggy Sue]

Squash are really quite amazing, I have an intermittent mole problem and every other plant it has burried under has died, the squash went yellow, shrivveled up, looked dead then up they came fighting for more - Even in this steaming hot dry weather!