Droopy leaves!!
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Rsixxer
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I did a lot of research on this issue last night as I am having the same problem. I watered my plants and the next day they were all droopy? Everything is still green, but very sad looking. What I found out from research is the plants are having problems absorbing all the new water so they stop giving energy to the leaves and turn all efforts to the roots. After a few days everything should be back to normal. The solution I read is to transplant to bigger pots (next on my list) or figure out a way to get more oxygen in the soil. The oxygen helps the plants process the H2O better. Hope this helps!
shabba
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Do you think if I gave them less water then they wouldn't need to use as much energy to absorb it? Also do you think it could be related to the heat because it was really hot in the tent the day I noticed it so I was wondering if this had something to do with it?
Rsixxer
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Too much water could cause that, hard to say without looking at the cycles during watering. Try to water every 3/4 days roughly. Heat is probably not the issue or you would have curling of leaves or "hot spots." Although with plants, you never know. That's the fun part about it !
shabba
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I'm gonna water them tomoz so that would be 2 days without water when I normally water every other day so lets see if that sorts it out! I've got another plant in there thats a little bit smaller & that seems fine, it seems that the bigger the leaves the droopier they get & the weaker the sub-stem is that's holding it?
shabba
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I checked on them this morning & they were looking even worse so I gave them just under half a litre of water each with 3ml of Biobizz grow & a quarter of a teaspoon of epsom salts. I went & checked on them about half hour ago after work & they've perked up! Check the picks
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MetalSmelter
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What size pots are you using??
It takes almost a 1/2 gal of water to fill a 8" pot 8" deep and have a good 20% or so run off.
Over and underwatering both look the same, and the soil in your first pictures look very dry.......very. Keep moisture on them to a degree, and give them air and you'll be golden.
It takes almost a 1/2 gal of water to fill a 8" pot 8" deep and have a good 20% or so run off.
Over and underwatering both look the same, and the soil in your first pictures look very dry.......very. Keep moisture on them to a degree, and give them air and you'll be golden.