Clones drooping after transfer

firsttimeARE

firsttimeARE

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Room temp is about 80F and at the tops of the plants are 88F.

I know this is high, but I've had these temps before and no issues.

I think it is the transplant. I let these plants grow huge roots before I transferred. Then I kind of just spiral the roots around the bottom of the pot and put hydroton on top of the roots.

3 of the 5 clones were also tipped over(got so big and the 2" netpots with neoprene couldn't hold them up so they tilted at like 45degrees, tried different ways to fasten, but figured its a wash and put them in 5inch netpots as described above)

Now I have only 2 clones that aren't drooping, they aren't perky, but not drooping.(3rd and last pic)

Here are pics.

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I will get my light exhausted. Put an intake from another room(so not to pull smell from the room and to allow cooler than room air to blow over the bulb)and tie the exhaust end into the main exhaust line.
 
I was thinking transplant shock as they were fine monday before transfer.

They got 5lpm air in each bucket which has never failed me before.

Water is 2 inches below netpot.

Feed is at 1.2 EC.

Put them under the HPS monday night and 6 hours later they were like this. Figured they would bounce back but yesterday they were like this still.

What do you think aside from the term droopy not being entirely accurate?
 
Yeah, I have a 20lpm dual diaphragm pump on 4 buckets each pump. Then I have one pump going with just one outlet in use(rest are closed). They all have bubbles popping and look moist.

I walked in today after the light being on for only a few hours and they looked better. The plant in the first picture has its top pointing up again instead of bent over like last night. Tops were 83F. Still too hot, but I think that is the culprit.
 
Nice recovery. In the future, whenever you transplant, raise the lights waaaaaaay up..like 3 feet, add some b1 in the nutes and top feed.

Transplanting is hard on plants..ESPECIALLY when the roots are hanging out. Just coddle them for a few days and they will be ready to rip on no time
 
Yeah these roots were about 15-20inches long when I put them in buckets so I had to kind of spiral the roots around the bottom and put hydroton atop to anchor it right.

They sat about 2 weeks too long in the cloner.

I brought the light up about 4 days ago. Not 3 feet, but like 2 maybe 2.5 ft.

I see a lot of roots in the water now, nice and firm and sterile feeling. EC rose to 1.6 on one and is teetering between 1.4 and 1.6 on others. I hate that about the truncheon vs my hanna, my hanna I could get to the hundreth place for EC.

Gonna put bloom nutes in tonight as they have begun flowering at 1.4EC again.

Wouldnt have been that bad if I lost them as I pulled clones off them already. Clones are already rooted lol. This strain roots FAAASSSTTTT. 85-90F water helps.
 
Nice. The strains I currently root take forever to root. Over two and a half weeks in aero cloner. Had to switch to rapid rooter plugs as I was loosing them to rot.

What are you using in that warm water to keep pathogens at bay?
 
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