Still drooping, help needed!

Kipn

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i messaged to the wrong person though just noticed
from what i can see his net cup is touching the water level with a ball of roots in water. roots are too wet

i have done 1real dwc then stopped because it was too much effort so swapped to coca growing now i am trying kratky method what requires no air pumps. if you dont know what the kratky method is i sugest you look it up before you comment saying a plant wont grow with out aeration. but thats not the point i was getting at. in one of them photos it looks like the net cup is touching the water. i am saying drop water level abit as plant is suffocating regardless of how much air is being pumped in the water
 

Airwalker16

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from what i can see his net cup is touching the water level with a ball of roots in water. roots are too wet

i have done 1real dwc then stopped because it was too much effort so swapped to coca growing now i am trying kratky method what requires no air pumps. if you dont know what the kratky method is i sugest you look it up before you comment saying a plant wont grow with out aeration. but thats not the point i was getting at. in one of them photos it looks like the net cup is touching the water. i am saying drop water level abit as plant is suffocating regardless of how much air is being pumped in the water
Roots are supposed to be completely submerged. Hes doing it right .
 

Airwalker16

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Follow this. Make SURE you mix CalMag FIRST. STIR IT/SHAKE IT WELL with your water. Then add the micro. STOP. Stir that well. Then the gro. STOP. Stir that well. And finally the bloom and you guessed it. STIR. Have you been doing that? Even without cal mag?
Are you using tap or RO water?View attachment 4158655
No. Follow this post I posted already. Do this in a separate container. Like a 5 gallon jug or a big rubber maid tote full of clean Reverse Osmosis water. (Or water from the machines at the store. It is 0ppm) then add and mix each one, 1 by 1. Be sure to THROUGHLY mix each one very well before you add the next part.
 

Logan Burke

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I always put my nutrients in, cal mag first of course, all directly into the plant's 5 gallon bucket, I've never really mixed nutes into water in a seperate container unless I'm growing in soil. So far, I've yet to see any problems from it, but I'm also still in the 'newbie' category of growing lol...how is the new growth looking? Are the new leaves green and healthy, or droopy and the same as the first set of them? Oh, and yes while many use tap water in dwc, I think everyone can agree that in a perfect world, RO is ideal....
*Edit* Sorry I just noticed you posted with pics, I see it isn't growing out of it...definitely looks like a nutrient related problem though...Airwalker may be onto something, it does remind me of a lockout!!
 

Logan Burke

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The older growth will likely never recover, once the damage is done it's done, it's the newest growth that you want to keep an eye on to watch for improvement...she should start turning around, I'm lost as to what else it could be if not the nutes being mixed wrong...I've always just squirted mine one at a time into the bucket my plant sits in, so idk. Fingers crossed man give'em a few days. We'll figure it out.
 

Alex77145

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The older growth will likely never recover, once the damage is done it's done, it's the newest growth that you want to keep an eye on to watch for improvement...she should start turning around, I'm lost as to what else it could be if not the nutes being mixed wrong...I've always just squirted mine one at a time into the bucket my plant sits in, so idk. Fingers crossed man give'em a few days. We'll figure it out.
Thanks for the support, I really appreciate it. You guys are the only people I can talk about weed. Yeah, I also just squirted it in one after the other.
Idk if this changes anything, but the plant isn't really droopy so to say. The leaves are firm, really like fat, swollen looking and they curve a lot near the ends. Also the whole plant looks too green to me and the tips that curl the most are almost blackish dark green.
 

Logan Burke

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Too dark green and even blackish, generally, indicates too much Nitrogen...it could be something else, but that's normally what dark green foilage means. Often times you'll also get a 'claw' effect, but those leaves are so deformed that they may not. So yeah, try cutting back on ferts containing nitrogen a little bit and see if newer growth doesn't turn bright lush green! How is the new growth looking? Fingers crossed for ya man, I know it can be stressful especially if you've obsessive tendancies lol. And no problem, always glad to help!
 
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