Claw? need some help

drizzlej

Active Member
Hey all,(first time grower) i just switched my 2 plants over to 12/12 about 5 days ago... AND both turned out to be females!!!:weed:(bagseed). Yesterday I gave them both there last dose of veg food which is 5-1-1 fish emulsions and ph'd both, my lst plant which is fine at the moment at 6.6 and the one that looks to be a little ill was around 6.4 (the runoffs)
2013-01-19_22-52-04_532.jpg2013-01-19_22-52-15_377.jpg<---this one still has been growing GREAT.. about 1.5inches a day and showing way more calyx with hairs everyday now..the soil was very dry and the pot was the lightest its ever been so i gave them a big drink and came home 2day with this happening..not all leaves look like this, some look pretty healthy as well. I'm thinking its mostly an over watering issue since this plant hast more peat moss in it rather than my other plant that dries out a lot faster. Since its been growing so fast it has been 8-10inches from my 400w hps so i moved it around a foot away even though the heat isnt bad at all... with lights on..it usually stays around 78-79F and 28-32 humidity.

Should i just leave it be?
 

drizzlej

Active Member
ahh really didn't know that :D....and ya figured it was something like that since it took in alot more water than my other plant since it has more peat moss and not as much perlite and needed to get enough run off for a measurement, hope thats the case anyways. THANKS MAN

Ya read that whole guide, just odd since i did a watering about a week or so ago and it didn't cause this..prob just a little more water than i usually do (never used to check there run offs till i got a good ph meter)
 

Rancho Cucamonga

Active Member
Lay off the nutes a couple waterings and water less often. Curl down in my experience is overnuting/overwatering. Being you said your pots went very dry I assume it's overnuting. Watch fro tip burn in the next 12-24 hours. You also need to up that humidity. Unless you are in the last week or two of flower you need to have 40-50% RH. If it begins to really burn flush if you are not using fully nuted soil.
 

drizzlej

Active Member
hmm thats weird its barely half strength 5-1-1 very very low nutes (2 weeks before this they had full strength and looked amazing) .. was mostly on the over watering part, but i water about once a week or longer till i see them get thirsty and the humidity ive heard debates on and off about that on numerous sites( "the plants adapt to there environment"<--was talking to a grower that tested this and came out with some dank nug with 20-26%humidity for the whole grow... its never been over 36% even at seed/sapling age) and i have a 50$ cool humidifer in there already on top speed so its gonna be hard getting it any higher..THANKS for the input ill keep n eye on her.
 
i had one do the same thing i figured it was because i waterd it without nutes a few times so i gave it nutes every watering and it recoverd fast but the curl never went away from leaves that curled a lot
 

Compubob1

New Member
Flush, flush, flush and just water, no nutes for a while til bottom leave start to yellow. Then start up your nute program again. Start slow. Just sayin.
 

Nizza

Well-Known Member
when you water too much with a higher dose nutes than the plant needs, the salts build up in the medium. Initially, it doesn't burn the plant, but as the soil dries out, the salt concentration increases and thats when you see the burn. It may just be that you need to mix your soil different or it could mean you need to water at a different frequency, or it may even mean you gotta step in the nutes slower.
If i were you i'd give it 1/4 dose nutes and check the PPM in/out, as well as pH. If no ppm meter , a good sign that theres excess salts is the pH is out of wack because the excess nutes buffer the water. I would give it 1/4 strength nute flush and then after that give it a full feed, then back off, down to 1/4, then a stronger full dose; as long as there isnt claw
 
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