Leafs Curling On Week Old Plants?

Anc777

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the leafs on a couple of my white widow plants are curling on the sides is this normal? i have a 400W HPS light 3 feet above the week old plants and they are in a ebb and flow system with the botanicare Nutes...
 
Your plants are one week old, and your watering 6 times a day?
If your in a rockwool and expanded clay medium you should be only watering once a day for 10 min.
Bring it down to once a day. Then after 6 hours stick your finger in your medium and see if it feels damp. If it does, it doesn't need to watered. If after 12 hours it still feels damp, your good for once a day.
If you feel the need to bump it up to twice a day. Water once after the lights have been on 1-2 hours, then again 1-2 hours before the lights go off.
Then when you feel they need a third watering, do it in between the first and third watering. Never water at night.
Plants store all their energy during the day, and grow at night. So turn your fans off at night as well.

All this ^^^ is basic hydroponics 101.
 
LIGHT
Bulb: 400W HPS
Hood: Yeild Master II-6" Air Cooled
Ballast: Sunsystem 10 400W
-------------------

SYSTEM
Botanicare TurboGarden Ebb & Flow
Botanicare ReadyGro Soiless Mix
Botanicare Grow & Bloom Nutes
Nirvana White Widow Seeds
Destilled Water

Been Running the system for 15 Min 6 times a day and running the light for 24 hours a day 7 days a week I am now on day 9 of the grow...

UPDATE:
Leafs were curling up on edges...
Just changed today (9th Day Of Veg) to water 15 Min 3 times a day...
 
LIGHT
Bulb: 400W HPS
Hood: Yeild Master II-6" Air Cooled
Ballast: Sunsystem 10 400W
-------------------

SYSTEM
Botanicare TurboGarden Ebb & Flow
Botanicare ReadyGro Soiless Mix
Botanicare Grow & Bloom Nutes
Nirvana White Widow Seeds
Destilled Water

Been Running the system for 15 Min 6 times a day and running the light for 24 hours a day 7 days a week I am now on day 9 of the grow...

UPDATE:
Leafs were curling up on edges...
Just changed today (9th Day Of Veg) to water 15 Min 3 times a day...

If the leaves are curling up on the edges, I had the same thing happen a few days ago. I figured my problem was heat stress. I moved my 600w MH up 4", and it seems to have halted the problem. I'm on the same 15min every 4 hours schedule as you are, with no ill effects. I've got before and after pictures on my grow log if you wanna take a look.

Good luck.
 
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