S.O.S. Plant Drooping Bad!

Hey all...

One of my girls began leaning over to one side over the last couple of days as it grew up and bigger...

Last night I changed the water and nutes in my 5 gallon res and added a coat hanger to stake up the plant to keep her from leaning over and to support her. I just got home and looked at her, she's drooping like crazy! I am adding a pic so you can see what's goin on here.

The drooping plant is a little over a month old and being grown with a 90 w 5 band ufo. Any ideas?? I have tied the main stem up more to keep her standing up.

What is going on here?

Got enough of air in the res??

Maybe the plant is in shock from a new additive maybe??

Hmmmmm.. Tell us more.

I just looked in my res and it was probably way too high. It was about up to the net pot so I just poured a lot of it out. Maybe that is what it was... Damn it, I hope she'll be ok..

Thanks BTW for replying so fast, I think you probably got it right. Much thanks bro.

Ahhhh Damn... Looks like I have got root rot on the droopy plant. At least that is what I think it is... Some of the roots are brown and one spot even turned a red color and doesn't look good. What would happen if I was to cut out all the bad roots and just leave the white roots. The newest roots coming out of the plant are white but about half way down??

trim the roots a lil bit and a lil dose of super thrive will do miracles!! she's gunna be fine....jus tell her that Daddy fuck up and he is goin to make it all better now!!

ya it looks like the roots are drowning or the water res temp is too high. Your res temp should always be below 74ºF or else you will get bacteria in your water. Looks like you need waaay more light too, that will speed up growth and help with everything

Do you have a fan in there to build stem strength, also untill your able to build her up to withstand her own leaf weight you should put a splint in there to help hold her up and get some weight of her till she's ready to hold on her own.

UNICRONLIVES said:

trim the roots a lil bit and a lil dose of super thrive will do miracles!! she's gunna be fine....jus tell her that Daddy fuck up and he is goin to make it all better now!!

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Thanks, I will have to get some super thrive and will try that.

BeefSupreme said:

ya it looks like the roots are drowning or the water res temp is too high. Your res temp should always be below 74ºF or else you will get bacteria in your water. Looks like you need waaay more light too, that will speed up growth and help with everything

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Yeah, when I changed the res water out last time I over filled it. All the way up to the net pot...

After it drooped, I took out about half the water. I am not sure what my res temp is, I need to get a thermometer for that I guess.

I added 4 13 w cfls to the 90w led to hopefully help things out a bit.

s7even said:

Do you have a fan in there to build stem strength, also untill your able to build her up to withstand her own leaf weight you should put a splint in there to help hold her up and get some weight of her till she's ready to hold on her own.

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I have a 6" king fan blowing on it. I will see what I can do to help support her for the time being. Thanks for the reply.