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Or is it clumsiness?

A beautiful Saturday morning, forecast would be a sunny day, and it was. Warm around 25°C, perfect! Went to check up some plants, watering them.

Then, this happened:

No, it’s not dying. Not naturally at least. That plastic tube is my current experiment for growing plant without real soil, not meaning gel, hydroponics, or aquaponics, but using alternate somewhat soil-looking materials to replace soil for plants to grow in. It’s right about a week, when this happened, when it had grown about 5 cm, when everything looked promising for this little seedling to be one step towards the bigger plant.

What exactly happened was, since the tube is small, I always pour too much water, so I poured excessive water out of this tube into another pot or whatever. And this was my partner in crime, the white bar in the photo on the right. As I retreated my left hand with the tube, the edge caught with the bar and cut the seedling.

Didn’t realize what I’d done at first second, then I saw that part over hanging, deadly looking. My heart sunk like a giant stone being thrown into water, unable to escape its upcoming fate, knowing it would be in deep water, forever.

I tried to save it hopelessly, pulled it upright, it did stand straight for a while. Thinking, maybe it had some sort of savage mechanism, emitting some sort of fluid to glue itself into one piece once again. Believe me, I really thought that.

More realistic hope is there is tiny leaves just below the break-point, at least they look like leaves to me. But I don’t think it would continue to grow, because I have some other same seedlings, and those leaves ain’t growing.

This tube is more or less coming to the end. At least, I have a second tube, so the experiment can continue.

By the way, is that weed or grass? I did not plant that.