I put a Celebrity and Early Girl in those Topsy Turvy hanging containers a few weeks back (just the latest in a long line of attempts to fight MAJOR rabbit/bird issues here in the low desert) and hung them in the sun. They've been growing like crazy, stems as fat as your thumb where they come out of the container. I used metal hangers I bought from Target a couple years ago, 12" long S shapes. Last night, I realized one container is missing.

Sure enough it fell, breaking the main stem about 2" from where it grows down out of the pot. Mind you, the stem is not totally broken off, it's about 50-75% broken through :( and of course all the growth is totally wilted.

So... does anyone know if I should just remove the top of broken plant at the break, hang it back up with it's 2" stem and see if it will regrow? Any real chance that could happen? Or should I just go get another one to replace it completely? Or maybe trim it so that one set of leaves remains (above the break) and hope it sprouts new shoots out from the main stem below the break? Or would those be "suckers"?

Any help appreciated. "Spring" is a'wastin' here (Phx AZ)- was nearly 100 degrees on Friday, so I need to either pamper the stub, replace soon or just retire the topsy turvy for the year. Last year it was SOMEONE chomping the thumb-thick stem off in the raised container, this year, the falling topsy turvy, arghhh....