week into flower and fan leaves drooping

noturbo

noturbo

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so, as the title really im a week into flowering my big bang and all was going good till i checked it today and all the fan leaves were drooping and it looks pretty ugly at the mo

Not sure if its over or under watering, the stems of the fan leaves are soft and hanging right down

I think i water regularly enough but perhaps not using enough water, i generally use a pint every 4 days or so. Should i give it a couple of pints of water and see how it looks?

Thanks for any help guys
 

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lovethegreen

lovethegreen

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Could be to much heat in your room.What are the temps with your light on? What kinda of light are you using? How are you colling it?
 
noturbo

noturbo

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just a 125w cfl and reflecter at the moment, im upgrading to a 400w hps soon but at the mo the temps dont really go over 25 degrees c
 
lovethegreen

lovethegreen

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Hmmm.... I came home one night and my fan died one me. the temps were up around 100 and my plant looked like that. 77f doesn't sound high at all, sorry I couldn't be of more help.
 
noturbo

noturbo

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Well i gave her a couple of pints to drink and put her to sleep so il see how shes doing tommorow

fingers crossed
 
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shakenbake

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If you're only using a 125 watt light it is not enough for your plant to process food properly. I'm looking at your photos and I can see the plant very dark, This means its very well fed, you have to watch out so you don't overfeed bec. it will burn. So very little nutes under your type of light, also an osscilating fan will promote strong stems. Make sure you follow through and get that 400 w. hps or you won't get any weed (any half descent smokable weed anyway). Have you thought about topping the plant? Your last chance is to top it now. Any more days and you should not do it because it takes about a week for the plant to get back its vigour again, and besides it still vegging two weeks into bloom only. Put sticks into the soil so your plants feel supported and will concentrate on producking you flowers and not putting energy into growing stronger stems. Remember it too needs to feel strong and give you nice buds. BTW, your light need to be an inch away from the top of the flower. More then 5 inches and its not receiving any light. Just as a rule of thumb a 1000 Watt light is only really effective for 3 feet, so any more space away from the light, and its starting to be useless. imagine how effective your 125 is. We are trying to recreate what the sun outside would give to our plants and in a space 5 x 5 feet (what a 1000w light should have for space) the sun gives-off about 1200 watts of equivalent light. HPS 400watts NOW!
 
noturbo

noturbo

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shakenbake said:
If you're only using a 125 watt light it is not enough for your plant to process food properly. I'm looking at your photos and I can see the plant very dark, This means its very well fed, you have to watch out so you don't overfeed bec. it will burn. So very little nutes under your type of light, also an osscilating fan will promote strong stems. Make sure you follow through and get that 400 w. hps or you won't get any weed (any half descent smokable weed anyway). Have you thought about topping the plant? Your last chance is to top it now. Any more days and you should not do it because it takes about a week for the plant to get back its vigour again, and besides it still vegging two weeks into bloom only. Put sticks into the soil so your plants feel supported and will concentrate on producking you flowers and not putting energy into growing stronger stems. Remember it too needs to feel strong and give you nice buds. BTW, your light need to be an inch away from the top of the flower. More then 5 inches and its not receiving any light. Just as a rule of thumb a 1000 Watt light is only really effective for 3 feet, so any more space away from the light, and its starting to be useless. imagine how effective your 125 is. We are trying to recreate what the sun outside would give to our plants and in a space 5 x 5 feet (what a 1000w light should have for space) the sun gives-off about 1200 watts of equivalent light. HPS 400watts NOW!
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Haha thanks man, yea i have the light about an inch away from the top at all times i just pulled it away as it was making my crappy phone camera bugger up

After the drink last night shes perked up a bit, still not 100% but better so im guessing she was just thirsty

Im pretty temted to order that 400w digital hps today lol

Heres a pic of her this morning
 

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richborgo

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nice little girl, have you thought of trimming up the bottom a bit? Also let your weight of the pot tell you when to water, pick it up and if its light water it. Looks a little kushy, nice job.
 
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