AK-47 drooping leaves

I have a Ak-47 clone that just went under a 400w HPS a week ago. It started drooping shortly after that. Yesterday the soil was very dry after watering a day or so before, so I transplanted from a plastic cup to a 5 inch pot and watered. The soil is still moist. My 400w is mounted at 24inches above the plants. My growroom is a closet with mylar covering the walls and ceiling and floor. . I have an oscillating fan and an exhaust vent with a 6 inch fan. I average about 82 in the room. I also have not gone to nutes yet, but it is in Black Gold soil.

I also have a 3 week old White Widow that is doing fine right next to it. The Widow is from seed.

HELP...

its just in shock from the transplant, i was gonna say too much water but yea give it a day or two and she'll perk up

nice newb.
are you ready for the can of worms.

Only problem is that this started before the transplant. I transplanted as a result of this, because of how fast it was going through its moisture. Could this be heat related? I think the room might be hitting higher temps at hot point of the day.

U should pick up a thermo that tells u max temp. $6 at walmart. It also tells max humidity. They arent the most accurate, but will give u an idea of peak temps. 82 is too hot and u just said that is average. The reason that plants handle that outdoors is because the roots are protected in cooler soil and they stay around 65-75. Above 79 in the root zone causes the plant to starve for oxygen, which causes dropping. U need to figure out a way to get the temps down. Cool down the rest of the house if u have to, but u need to do something if u want healthy plants.

na not if you dont see burns, ima say overwaterin but you say it evaped quick, are you stickin your finger in bout inch deep and seein if its moist?

over watering

That was my original thought, but it was bone dry when I transplanted to the bigger pot. I have only watered once since then, a couple days ago. I think it may have been temp though, I opened the door to my closet and the temp went to 78 and it looks like the leaves are starting to come up. I just dont understand why the widow has been fine and the AK-47 wasn't. I am wondering if it has to do with the widow only being a couple inches tall where the AK is 8 inches.

Now I am unsure what I should so. I can't leave the door open because my 400w lights up the room when the closet is open, less than discrete. I have a 6in exhaust fan mounted on the ceiling, with a 6 inch oscillating fan in the room and 12 inch non oscillating fan that blows on the bottom of the closet door from the outside. I would think that would be enough to keep it cool, since the exhaust fan is a 160 cfm.

One thing I am going to try is this. Currently my setup has the flex ducting going to the ceiling and then it runs to the house vent, that is where the fan is. I am going to try moving the fan to the grow room ceiling and run the ducting from there. I did it the first way to minimize noise, but noise is a moot point if I can't keep the plants going.

Any ideas people? Do you think it might be something other than the temp being at or above 80?

PS Yes I do stick my finger in a couple inches to judge moisture.

update pics, including White Widow


Anyone think I should transplant the widow to a pot yet?