Something got into one of our fenced off (but not fenced over) garden areas and ate most of our Opo plants down to 1" - 1-1/2" high. They were in pots and had grown about 5 ft. high, with stems close to 1/4" in diameter. I was gonna transplant them into soil (no pot) today...
Basically, these are "snake gourds", I guess, with a very neutral taste. (Can be added in cooking to almost any stew, soup, sauce, etc.) Any chance they will regenerate? Should I make a clean cut where the remainder of the stems begins to have been chewed? I do know these can be pruned back in normal circumstances to promote flowering (or just the darn plant from getting out of hand!), but I've never trimmed one by more than a third or so.
Thanks...
Something got into one of our fenced off (but not fenced over) garden areas and ate most of our Opo plants down to 1" - 1-1/2" high. They were in pots and had grown about 5 ft. high, with stems close to 1/4" in diameter. I was gonna transplant them into soil (no pot) today...
Basically, these are "snake gourds", I guess, with a very neutral taste. (Can be added in cooking to almost any stew, soup, sauce, etc.) Any chance they will regenerate? Should I make a clean cut where the remainder of the stems begins to have been chewed?
I do know these can be pruned back in normal circumstances to promote flowering (or just the darn plant from getting out of hand!), but I've never trimmed one by more than a third or so.
Thanks...