Seedling snapped in half

[Notsogreenthumb]

My pumpkin seedling snapped in half today. It was just having it's true leaves emerge. It hasn't snapped clean, is there hope for it? It's awfully tall for a seedling, I've fixed broken tomato stems before but those were of fully grown plants and side shoots, not the main stem. This has snapped midway on the seedling, can I wet some tissue and tape it to it? It's too late to resow any more seeds now (I was pushing it with this seedling already). Any suggestions? Or do I let it go already

No harm in trying. One of my sunflower stems got badly bent when I was potting it up, I just tied it firmly to the cane and it scarred over and was ok.

I'd also sow more, if you have the seeds. Things grow quickly this time of year!

I rescued a broken sunflower seedling (DD age 6 came out of school with it crying her eyes out). Was not completely broken so I straightened it, put some masking tape round the injured bit and then taped the whole thing to a chopstick as a splint.

That was a couple of weeks ago and seedling is currently about 40cm tall with many leaves! The bent bit recovered really well.

Thank you all for the replies. I'll give it a try and might sow more, I'm just not having much luck this year, things are growing really slowly and don't want to be stuck with unripe pumpkins

Update: the seedling has a 'splint' and is doing really well shockingly. It was snapped clean practically and has managed to continue to grow its leaves and height

My mum always tried a splint like your one , often with good results

You need to change your name now as you obviously DO have a green thumb !

@TheSpottedZebra thank you, how kind . If I manage to get any fruit by the end of this season, I'll reward myself with a name change . I started as 'rookie gardener', have moved on to 'not so green thumb' and we shall see if an upgrade is forthcoming