Droopy leaves

ninja1

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For some reason my plants seem to be going droopy after looking nice and perky. Only young seedlings not even shown their sex yet, in 6litre coco. Watering them 2litres of water and next day and couple days after they are looking nice and perky. Now I'm tempted to say it's the plants being thirsty. Pot are deffo close to being light and needing a watering and they've gone bit droopy looking. I know not to let the coco dry out completely but still feels like bit too much weight to be watering them just yet.

Going to water a couple in a minute and see if they perk up again. If they do then know not to let the pots get as light. What's making me think this is the case is. I usually in previous grows have only been giving them a litre of water in 6 litre pots. Plants grow fine and yield was okay. Only I gave a single plant before this water until run off as had to flush and noticed the roots look better. Since then I've upped how much water I give each time to 2litre. The roots are deffo looking better for it. Thinking when I was doing 1 litre pot was able to feel more light than now as pot wasn't as rooted. Where as now roots are proper taking hold of the pot and so want watering sooner.

Anyway water them and if they improve then that's me sorted. Just wondered if anyone's else has experienced similar? Will need to learn how this new weigh for feels tbh as used to them getting lighter
 

ninja1

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Coco wants to be watered every day, even 2-3 times a day.
You cant overwater coco unless they are tiny seedlings or clones and dont have an established root system. Once they have a good root system they want every day watering
I usually build up to where I am watering them every day. It is just usually I water my 6litre pots 1litre of water. Has decent yields with that but last plants I had an issue. Someone suggested I flushed them and I did and I couldn't help but notice better roots. So this time round I've given these plants in 6 litres 2litre of water and some run off.

Plants look droopy but the pots still weigh bit heavier than what I have let them get to in the past when giving 1litre. So as they look droopy I give them 2litres of water and yep they pick back up. So I might try watering them more often but less water. Build up to the 2litre if that makes sense. The pots are taking about 3 days to get light.

So yeah it's like they are acting underwatered when pot still has weight. More than I've let plants go in that size pot 100%. And having slow growth as if underwatered. That's how I would discribe the issue. I don't understand why they go droopy when still has weight yet yeah the watering picks then back up so deffo need it. I am just thinking maybe cut back the water and incrase it over time when they are drinking daily rather than every 3 days.

Will throw some photos up and include the roots. First time I've done seeds in ages as well. Deffo prefer the speed of clones. Got a couple packs I'm gonna do and keep a mum back.
 
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