help! white widow plant is dying.

i have two white widow plants that are flowering under a 400 watt hps light. one of them is really healthy but the other one is dying. it is really droopy. i only water it when the pot feels light which is around every two days or three. the soil is fox farms and so are the nutrients. i have only used grow big once at half strenght and it took it fine but after a week it started to droop. so i stopped. then i started flowering and gave it big bloom but nothing. the temperature stays at 80ish. the water is ph'd. i dont know what to do anymore. im soo lost and dont want to lose another plant. can anyone please help me
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bboyzdogg said:

i have two white widow plants that are flowering under a 400 watt hps light. one of them is really healthy but the other one is dying. it is really droopy. i only water it when the pot feels light which is around every two days or three. the soil is fox farms and so are the nutrients. i have only used grow big once at half strenght and it took it fine but after a week it started to droop. so i stopped. then i started flowering and gave it big bloom but nothing. the temperature stays at 80ish. the water is ph'd. i dont know what to do anymore. im soo lost and dont want to lose another plant. can anyone please help me
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have you transplanted recently because I did and the next day and my plant looked exactly like that, I gave it some rzhitonic (sp?) for the roots and within hours it came back to life.........

no i havent. they were just planted on those pots when they were seeds. could it possibly be a deficiency of some sort? or is it over watering?? more help??

looks like it needs water

I have the same problem.

some one told me nitrogen deficency is a possibility

That's not nitrogen. It's not a nutrient deficiency at all. That plant looks like it needs water. When you stick your finger a couple of inches down into the soil, is the soil damp? What are your temps in that room, and how close is the light?

Another question - was there a point sometime in the last week or so, shortly before this started happening, that you went longer than you should have between waterings and the soil dried out excessively? That can damage the roots to the point that even when you begin watering normally again, they have a difficult time drawing moisture, and even though the soil is moist, the plant can't take it in and it looks as though it's underwatered. Could that have happened here?

Skunk Baxter said:

Another question - was there a point sometime in the last week or so, shortly before this started happening, that you went longer than you should have between waterings and the soil dried out excessively? That can damage the roots to the point that even when you begin watering normally again, they have a difficult time drawing moisture, and even though the soil is moist, the plant can't take it in and it looks as though it's underwatered. Could that have happened here?

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ok well i dont do the finger trick but i use a meter sometimes. i did it today and it wasnt "moist" but you could tell its been a while since it has been watered but the thing is that i just watered yesterday. i also have another plant thats following the same routine and its fine. the light is about an 10 inches or 12 inches away from the plant. and the temperature stays at like 80 to 85 with the light on. as far as the underwatering thing im not so sure. i remember a week that i went for around four days without watering but it was still good. then it started drooping like 2 weeks after. could it possibly be that i just am underwatering???

because i also had a bagseed that basically went through the same process and it had the same symptoms and i thought it was a water dificiency too and i watered it as adviced and it just ended up dying. i dont want that to happen again

as plants get bigger they start to use up water more readily. it doesn't look or sound like you've overwatered, so I would try increasing frequency of waterings and/or put them in a bigger pot. when you water, make sure you are completely saturating the soil, as you could be underwatering during your feedings. be thorough!

Good luck!