Just watered so they r a little droopy...Should perk up soon enough I think lol...
I knew there was a good reason.
Idk bro they were still droopy this morning and the lowest / oldest leaves on two of the girls are turning yellow from the tips to about halfway up the leaves. It happened pretty quick I'm thinking something is not right :/
Is it a burnt, dry, crispy yellow? Like N burn? Sometimes too much N will make them droop. In one of your pics I noticed some of the fan leaves were curled down, another sign of N tox.
I'll take a better look when I get home in about 6 hours...Yesterday morning I poured the rest of that compost tea into their solo cups (was gonna foliar feed it and had it in a spray bottle...) - Never watered the actual smart pots. Wondering if they could use some water to push some of that shit through and spread it out in the medium instead of being mostly in the solo cups?
That could be from overwatering or a resulting compacted medium, but if you suspect overwatering as the main cause, I suggest just letting it go for a while (couple of days) instead of trying to 'fix' the symptom. Losing a few of the older fans that are covered by others is not necessarily a big deal.
Now your thinking! That's what I would do. Let them dry up and water everything real good. Maybe a full watering will "balance" it out.
Okay so overwatering is actually in reference to water depleted of oxygen sitting on the roots rather than just "too much water" - keeping the medium too saturated will deprive the root zone of oxygen I guess? - whereas in hydro the water is constantly oxygenated by an air stone and circulating around...?
Yes. Roots sucking up water is what brings nutrients close enough to the roots for uptake.
I didn't measure (will tonight) but I'd say it's roughly 16-18" from the top of the canopy...
Yeah it would of helped I'm sure. Let it sit for a day before using it to water (mixing it every couple hours) - it was still bubbling the next day (dogs loved the smell of that shit - they were jumping up at the counter to get at it lol) - and then what was left was in a spray bottle for a day and a half but I decided not to spray it n just poured the rest down in their solo cups xD
Alright I'm gonna go ahead and wait it out a little - see how they react if I let it dry out some more - and then I'll hit them with plain pH adjusted water and hope they bounce back nicely.
Hard to say what goes on in their mind (as a matter of speaking
) but remember what I said about not spraying too often to prevent "lazy roots" and possibly backfiring during flowering? It's a bit of a stoner term probably but it's an oldie. If you sprayed two times a day you meddle with the transpiration directly and indirectly (by changing the humidity) and then when you stop the plant will have to re-regulate itself. Just a theory... but yeah I think that could play a role too.
That's without a cool tube lol :/ my light is playing the role of heater and light atm...temps are real cool in the surrounding room year round so it's kind of balanced out inside the tent between the high heat from the HID and the cool air from the passive intake. I have to turn my exhaust fan off during the dark period or the temp drops down pretty drastically inside the tent..Is that with or without cooltube? 600watt should be roughly 60cm away (400watt 40cm, 1000watt a meter), you can go a little lower because you have less area to cover but I wouldn't lower them those 6 inches again. I keep mine at roughly 20" (50cm instead of 60cm) and that already gives some heat stress directly below the light. I'm still surprised you can get away with running a 600w in 32x32".
That said, do check the temps and RH because both affect the transpiration a lot. If raising the light caused the temps near the plant to drop it will cause reduced transpiration which in practice means you need to water a little less too.
Hard to say what goes on in their mind (as a matter of speaking
