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CloudBlower
CloudBlowerstarted grow question 15 days ago
My plants have been drooping for a week and it’s getting worse, I thought it was overwatered but I let I dry out completely and watered it again and it’s still dropping. What can it be?
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Leaves. Dropping off
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Ultraviolet
Ultravioletanswered grow question 14 days ago
Ok here is the thing, lots of knowledge you need to absorb before your plants can grow. Your running 60% rh, with that many plants, think of it like mouths to feed. Your plants are drooping because turgor pressure has been lost. Turgor pressure is dictated by the mineral K pottasium and is strongly linked to transpirstion and the nighttime process of cellular respiration. I have no idea where all these guides exist telling beginners to run 60%rh is suicide. Especially when you have large pots with small plants. Water can only remove itself from medium either through evaporation or transpiration. Evaporation is a endothermic process meaning it requires heat to turn liquid to gas, the medium has a VPD which is controlled by the VPD in surrounding air. Evaporation must occur within the soil or water will stagnate quickly. Transpiration is the process of water cycling from roots to leaf and back out into the air. When your plants are small the rootzones don't yet reach all over the pot meaning most of the water drops to bottom of big pots and if it can't transpire as the top couple inches dry too fast leaving the water all at the bottom with 0 evaporation. If evaporation is not happening and transpiration is not happening then nothing happens and things will eventually droop and grind to a halt as the beginner continues to pack the medium with salts until ec goes high and drifts ph. You have so many plants in there it's going to create a huge transpirational footprint during night, your plants are looking well and have grown well for 5 weeks but now they are a little bigger its far more important to focus on keeping things a little warmer and a little drier in your grow tent. Making sure rh is limited to 50rh day and night give or take. By keeping things on the drier side it opens up the plant to take full saturation of water. Nutrients can only uptake where they find water. There is no such thing as too much water. Only a medium that retains too much for the environment it finds itself. Keep that medium saturated 10% run off, measure ec after watering and only feed when it drops. Fertilization must be based off al least some metric, blanket feeding every 2nd watering is useless if your plant is not using what it's being fed due to no water cycling in the plant. Good luck in quest for knowledge to improve your grow. Best of luck pal.
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00110001001001111O
00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 14 days ago
Looks dry AF... 1) fuylly saturate pot 2) wait for top 1" to dry (if coco when top starts to change color) 3) repeat if not doing that, you are doing it wrong. if in soiless, 10% runoff waste is supremely important, too. Normal watering should never make a plant droop. if it does, it's poorly constituted substrate that needs more drainage amendments added.
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slixmeister
slixmeisteranswered grow question 15 days ago
If you have been watering them just now then this is normal. Had the same issue some weeks ago. A few Hours After watering the stop hanging. If this persists After some Hours then its so ethnographische Else. Ph issue overwatering/underwatering
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AsNoriu
AsNoriuanswered grow question 15 days ago
Wrong ph or too cold temps.
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All_our_small_plants
All_our_small_plantsanswered grow question 15 days ago
Sieht für mich so aus als fehlt Ihnen Wasser. Gieße Sie langsam und in Abständen von 10 Minuten und nur wenig Wasser damit der Boden richtig durchnässt wird. Und danach erst wieder wenn sie wirklich wieder brauchen. Du kannst dazu entweder den Topf anheben oder so 4 cm unter der Oberfläche nachsehen wenn es dort trocken ist gieß sie wieder. Sie können auch etwas dünger vertragen.
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