Transplant wilting

Hello everyone I have a few questions I manage to root 26 cutting in my ezcloner The clones nevered wilted in the cloner box and have great roots now yesterday when I deciced to transplant them to my flood tray I dont know if I took to long to put them in but what i did was set each pot with hydroton half way put rooted clones in fill the rest with hydroton medium after I did all 26 pots then I started to put them in the tray. Once in the try they wilted don't know why I flood the tray once cause lights are on timer and they were turning off in about 1 hour. So I said let them get water before lights out. This morning they are still wilted and this evening there still the same.
600 watt HPS, Hydroton medium using canna flores part A&B 1400ppm 1/2 tsp epson salt and 5ml calicum ph is 5.8 tray is on timer to flood 4x day for half hour each.
this is the end of day 1 do I have to worry or will they get better? Thanks everyone for the advise

Originally Posted by orzz

Sounds like transplant shock. OR they may be drowning. What kind of pots? Does it take 30 minutes to flood ur tray? How high up the pot does the water come?

if it is just shock/stress they ought to perk up by tomorrow.

The pots are small squared 5.5" I currently have a 2'x2' flood tray have 25 pots in the tray this morning looked like the plants stood up right but then about the first flood some of them wilted again and some didn't I guess my table floods in about 5 min the water comes up half way to the pots thanks orzz

Originally Posted by monster383

Orzz is probably right. Just keep a close eye on it.

I usually have light as far away from plants as I can get it after a transplant. For me that is about 3 foot 6 inch from 1000 hps. Then I slowly drop light down in 6 to 12 inch increments after plants start to perk up which is usually 2 to 3 days.

my 600 watt is about 2 feet away now once i see new growth i'll lower the lights bit

Originally Posted by GreenThumbSucker

Give them a little bit of vitamin B1. A teaspoon or so in a gallon. B1 is miraculous when it comes to shocked plants.

Ive literally seen wilting transplants pop up in a few minutes when watered with B1.

B1 i have never heard of that here do you get a product like that? thanks greenthumbsucker