wilting plants 2 weeks into flowering stage

Ok so my husband has been growing this new strain for about 3 months. We are using hydroponic have a bunch of air stones using coco rocks on top also using fox farm nutrients & a 300 led light. So we are about 2 1/2 weeks into flowering and yesterday my husband noticed that the plants went from being very bushy to they're both super wilted. So about 4 days ago I noticed it looked like a slight sunburn was starting and said something to him and we moved the light up some, he also had a small fan sitting in the bottom of the room which 3 days ago I tied up to blow the tops of the plants. We had a small 30 watt led lamp in there for the sides and bottom of the plants that he took out yesterday, that's when he saw the whole plant drooping. The nodes and stuff have already started and I'm afraid the harvest may mess up being this. He also noticed that the water had gotten low smh so he filled it up as well. The plant looks like it's dying I will have to get pictures later case the lights just went off. We moved the light back closer to the plant last night but no change. Now he is blaming me for this happening so if there is any help I can show him to get them back right I would gladly appreciate it. I will post pics from a few days ago and tonight when the lights go back on I will take pics and post them so you can see the difference

Plants pictured are not wilted so problem appears corrected from what I can see. A little wilting is not going to hurt your crop.

They look perfect to me mate.

What did they look like when he was Happy???

That was b4 the wilting,this is now. Idk what's going on its just the one plant.sorry it took so long for the pic I've been working

Bugeye said:

Plants pictured are not wilted so problem appears corrected from what I can see. A little wilting is not going to hurt your crop.

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she's so sad

You probably have root rot. Check your roots for brown slime.

No roots are beautifully white

If you lost some capillary roots due to running dry, it may be prudent to trim some of the leaves off the plant to better match the remaining roots. It will probably bounce back, but it will affect yield etc. Net round I would trim and train more aggressively, try to end up without about half the height you have now. Its a weed, don't by shy to trim it hard.

Something has gone really wrong,I would say a Root system Problem,Most likely caused by over watering,Are you using a Dwc Bucket ,Also if you are pop that lid of and lets have a look at those roots .

Get something like Rhizatonic,any thing really that will help with the roots ,

tyke1973 said:

Something has gone really wrong,I would say a Root system Problem,Most likely caused by over watering,Are you using a Dwc Bucket ,Also if you are pop that lid of and lets have a look at those roots .

Get something like Rhizatonic,any thing really that will help with the roots ,

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looks like your water level is too high, it definitely should be under the bottom of the basket, by at least a couple of inches.

what is the heat like in there? I cant imagine its very high because of LED but worth checking.

Try and lower the water level,so a few of the roots are out of the water line,I aint the best DWC Grower,Tried it for a few grow's ,but just had too many problems my self ,so went back to what i know Auto Pots,There are some good growers on here that know there stuff about this style of growing though. Good Luck ,i had the bang same problem,I sorted it out by having a few of the roots out of the water.That was looking back on info i wrote down.

Hope you sort it out .
Tyke ,

Why is NO ONE mentioning pH?? If it's not, get it to around 5.8 See how they react.
Check this read out also.
https://www.xpertomatic.com/blogs/hydroponics/what-is-the-reason-behind-wilted-leaves-dwc-plants

no ones mentioning ph because the first problem he has to deal with is that hes drowning his roots....

I have tried most Methods of Growing from Aft ,Aqua mist, ,Soil ,,Auto pots,Dwc,along with a few others .But out of them all this was by far the Hardest Method .So i have respect for those that master this Technique.Used to love the Nft,fd when i first started out,A friend was doing dwc long time before there was any grow shops,And he still grows that way to this day,Too much Hard work,for me that is.I say its one of the hardest Hydroponic ways of growing there is ,My opinion.

Tyke 1973.

That smaller net pot, along with the Hydroton look dry to me. Dry salts on the right side.

does that smaller pot levitate? hes holding it up, when he sets it down, where does it go? into the bottom of the larger pot thats half submerged, with hydroton floating in it

Ok so the little pot doesn't submerge fully in the water, we have been checking the pH daily after reading that it can change fast due to budding. The led we have is a 300 watt, we just got the 300 mors hydro led in today so we put that one in as well,so it was 300 now it's 600 watts. We put hydro guard in it last night, she is still drooping no change in her stats what soever , now just out of curiosity would pests do this? I know that from within the first few days they sprouted we have gotten gnats in the house? I've put acv in little bowls around the house but it hasn't gotten them all. We had them in a tent but it was way too small to flower them so at the moment they are in the closet we set up. And it was about a week after putting them there that they started to droop. It's only been maybe a week since it started. We have neem oil, should we spray them with it? The lights don't go on till midnight and I will most likely be asleep cause I gotta be up early for work, but I can tell him to spray them if ya'll think I should. I really hope this doesn't dammage our harvest too bad. We are really looking forward to it. Like I said b4 it's a new strain. My husband got the seeds from Woodstock over the summer, the grower told him he would pay him 600 if he won cannabis cup. They are a hybrid of critical mass and del la haze. We are gonna call it tripy hippie I appreciate all of the advice so far and any answers to this question are super appreciated.