Droopy Plants need help!!!

Tayloman

Tayloman

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I have two tk x bg plants that droop from time to time. However since last night they have been like and I'm worried.

About the grow:

Ffhf soil under a King Brite 320W led.

The plants were watered on the 29th with a 380 ppm solution using gh flora series nutes.


On the 31st today I woke up and my plants looked bad. I watered them again hoping they would perk up.

12 hours later they look the same. I don't know what going on. The only thing I can think of is the temps in my tent got up to the high 80's for a little while yesterday.

My other plants in the tent look fine. It's just this strain. Help me!
 

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Herb & Suds

Herb & Suds

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Tayloman said:
Yes but they looked like this before I watered today... That's why I'm confused. My last watering prior to today was 4 days ago and they are in 1 gallon fabric pots.
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Really there are basically two types of wilt
Too much water or too little
Not much in between
Are you soaking the pots and letting them sit in runoff a few minutes ?
 
Tayloman

Tayloman

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Herb & Suds said:
Really there are basically two types of wilt
Too much water or too little
Not much in between
Are you soaking the pots and letting them sit in runoff a few minutes ?
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Im watering until runoff. I don't have a wet vac so I allow the runoff to evaporate which typically occurs within an hour.

As far as watering goes, if it were overwatering wouldn't the symptoms show up right away not a day and half later?

Not arguing just trying to figure this issue out.

Thanks for the help.
 
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Herb & Suds

Herb & Suds

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Tayloman said:
Im watering until runoff. I don't have a wet back so I allow ye runoff to evaporate which typically occurs within an hour.

As far as watering goes, if it were overwatering wouldn't the symptoms show up right away not a day and half later?

Not arguing just trying to figure this issue out.

Thanks for the help.
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Many folks say cloth pots are hard to water enough
I’m inexperienced on that aspect own a dozen 15 gallon but haven’t tried em yet
My best guess
But one thing is an absolute
What you do to a plant today may not show issues for weeks
 
Hiphophippo

Hiphophippo

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Herb & Suds said:
Many folks say cloth pots are hard to water enough
I’m inexperienced on that aspect own a dozen 15 gallon but haven’t tried em yet
My best guess
But one thing is an absolute
What you do to a plant today may not show issues for weeks
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I wrap mine in skid wrap it’s like a plastic wrap but it seals my sides up , helps prevent rapid evaporation from the sides of my pots
 
Tayloman

Tayloman

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Herb & Suds said:
Many folks say cloth pots are hard to water enough
I’m inexperienced on that aspect own a dozen 15 gallon but haven’t tried em yet
My best guess
But one thing is an absolute
What you do to a plant today may not show issues for weeks
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Interesting. I'll have to keep that last part in mind. Thanks.
 
Hiphophippo

Hiphophippo

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ZuuTeD614 said:
Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of air circulation to the roots? If you do that why not just buy "plastic" pots? Just curious because I use fabric pots..
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I grow in a organic living soil. Just like the ground the sides of your roots aren’t exposed to air like that. It’s a very common thing to wrap your fabric pots when growing that way. When you use a moisture meter to read the levels you place it everywhere but the sides why when that’s where half your roots are. Wouldn’t you want them to maintain the same uniform moisture level as the rest of your pot. Well you don’t get that when the pots sides are exposed to air like that and 30 gallon solid pots hold to much moisture and don’t breathe enough for living soil. when you wrap it you create the perfect evaporation rate when your environment is correct.
 
ZuuTeD614

ZuuTeD614

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Hiphophippo said:
I grow in a organic living soil. Just like the ground the sides of your roots aren’t exposed to air like that. It’s a very common thing to wrap your fabric pots when growing that way. When you use a moisture meter to read the levels you place it everywhere but the sides why when that’s where half your roots are. Wouldn’t you want them to maintain the same uniform moisture level as the rest of your pot. Well you don’t get that when the pots sides are exposed to air like that and 30 gallon solid pots hold to much moisture and don’t breathe enough for living soil. when you wrap it you create the perfect evaporation rate when your environment is correct.
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So why not just buy plastic pots instead of fabric pots and plastic wrap?
 
Hiphophippo

Hiphophippo

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ZuuTeD614 said:
So why not just buy plastic pots instead of fabric pots and plastic wrap?
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I just explained that. The plastic solid pots don’t transpire enough and retain to much of the moisture for to long of a period of time. This isn’t good for the microbial life in the soil and a standard fabric pot loses a lot of its water through rapid evaporation on the sides. The soil is usually very dry on the sides which isn’t how real soil in the earth operates. So by wrapping the fabric pot in plastic wrap leaving around the bottom inch or two of the pot exposed, it creates a good transpiration rate where the sides stay as wet as the center which is what you want uniform moisture throughout the entire pot. The bottom of the pot isn’t the same as a plastic pot which just has a few breathing or drain holes the fabric pot has a mesh bottom that can also breath better. So this is why I use the fabric pots wrapped in plastic wrap. The plastic works fine if you want to watch the moisture constantly I have my stuff figured out and on a pretty good schedule
 
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