I'm looking for a special glue that can fix/bond a torn leaf of a live plant and will make it grow again?
Question:I'm an Anthurium Leafy (folliage) hobiest, one of my favourite plant had been torn on one of its newly grown leaf, but did not chiped away.
Need to find a special glue which will make the torn parts of the leaf biologically attach and can grow along again. This logically like the latest surgery technology on bonding a patient flesh after having an operation, without sewing them like the old way. The glued flesh will slowly attach and recover like before.
If I can get this some kind of glue that applicable to plantation it surely will help much to repair damaged plants, especially to repair or even re-construct damaged rare plant species.
If someone out there can help, please inform: name of product, place and contact detail of seller, unit price..etc.
Thank you!
Answers:
I don't know of a glue but what your can try is to cut off the severed edges of the two pieces of leaf to have fresh edges and place them together and tape them so that they will grow together.
Sorry, no. A leaf that's torn, to be healed, theoretically, would have to have all the tiny vascular connections exactly matched up, and micro-stitches to sew them back together.
I would expect any glue that could stick torn leaf edges to together, would also interrupt the flow of water through from the living side to the torn side. Without that flow, the leaf tissue will die, even if "glued".
The surgical glue is for flesh - it can grow together any old way. It's a very different proposition to reconnect severed veins and arteries.
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