droopy leaves

Hey guys,

I just put the HPS 2 days ago after 3 and 4 weeks of veg for some plants (don't got much time). I flushed them before putting the HPS and they were lookinh great. Now I notice that the leaves of most of the plants are curled down. can someone help me with this??? I don't think i'm over fertelizing the plants because i barely used fertelizer.

water them now and they will perk up. PURE PH's water. i do a third of the soil weight in water and mine perk right back up

Depending on what kind of soil you are using, the plants may be starved for oxygen in their root zone. An over watered plant will droop its leaves. Also, an excess of N will do it as well.

Thank's for the help. This morning when i woke up some of them were really down i supposed it was because i didn't water them for a day so i watered them and they got a little better. Should i water them everyday? I use coco soil and it drains really fast.

I'll show some pics next time.

how are your temps lookin? i have experienced drooping of leaves if my temps got a bit to high. Talkin maybe the 90 degree F point.

DO NOT WATER EVERYDAY!!!! This is a disaster waiting to happen. The plants need a good wet dry cycle. If you water everyday, you will water log the soil and they will die. Remember more plants die from over watering than under watering.
If you plants are in veg, don't water until they wilt. When they wilt, feel how heavy the pot is. Now water them. Feel how heavy they are after watering. Next time the pots get almost as light as they are when the plants wilted, it means its time to water.

After looking at those pics, an excess of N will cause leaves to "droop" down and roll in. This may be the case. Some plants don't like a lot of N. I just started to grow C-99, and in comparison to my other strains, I have to water it at half strength during veg because it is so sensitive to N. In flower where the N levels are extra low, there hasn't been a problem, but in veg, watch out.

so if it's an excess of N, what can i do about it? i don't wanna flush them because i already did a few days ago.

What kind of soil is it? If it is a soil with "time release" ferts, the flushing is probably what brought on the excess of N.

You said you flushed....how large are your pots and how much water did you put through them? For my normal waterings, I use 2 gal of water/nutes on my 3 gal pots. If you are not watering properly, you may have built up a bunch of nutes in the soil, then you finally gave them enough water, all the salts dissolved and became available. You want to make sure you have plenty of runoff every time you water.

It could also be heat stress as mentioned before, but most of the time when it is heat stress, the leaves edges will begin to curl upwards. If the leaf edges were curling up a few days ago, and now they are doing this, I would blame heat stress. If this is a new problem that happened after you flushed, depending on the soil, I would say over watering or an excess of N.

If the soil is a time release soil, you are kind of screwed because you can't really flush those. You just have to wait for all the balls to dissolve or for the fert coatings to dissolve for the nutes to be released. That is the main problem with time release stuff. If it is this kind, I wouldn't flush, especially if you just recently transplanted because you will release too much fertilizer.

I think the problem is that when i flushed the plants i refilled the pots with more soil. What do you guys think?

Did you add dry soil after you flushed? If this is what happened, there are dry spots in your soil, and this will also casue "hot" spots in the soil as well. Next time you transplant or add soil, always water after. You don't want any air pockets, dry spots, or hot spots in there.

skunked said:

Thank's for the help. This morning when i woke up some of them were really down i supposed it was because i didn't water them for a day so i watered them and they got a little better. Should i water them everyday? I use coco soil and it drains really fast.

I'll show some pics next time.

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May wanna invest in a soil moisture meter. But in my case I tend to water alternate feed every other day in vegetative. In the flowering state I water alternate feed every day. Good luck with your crop.