Help! Droopy leaves and some spots?

Elphy

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I've been searching and am unable to identify our problem =-(

1)
PICTURE OF PLANT *** VERY IMPORTANT ***





2) Growing indoor or outdoors
Indoor with CFLs (mostly blue light, little red)
CFLs are about 8 inches away with a fan blowing on her.

3) Watering schedule
30 minutes 2x a day (8am and 8pm, none after lights out)
Distilled Water with 500ppm of Technaflora's nute blend

4) Growing Medium
Rockwool and Hydroton.

5) What stage of growth

Veg, 6 weeks in.


She has been droopy, much droopier than our other plant, who is the same strain and is thriving beautifully under identical circumstances. Her leaves feel soft and moist. We thought it was overwatering and cut her water schedule back from 4x a day to 2x, but she is still droopy after a week on that schedule.

Her root system is smaller than her sisters but still look pretty good, no bad smells, no sign of root rot. We keep her reservoir temperature at around 65 degree F.

She has her own air pump with two large, round air stones and lots of O2.

Any info would be super appreciated!! Thanks in advance!!! ^.^
 

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Elphy

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Usually around 65-70 degrees (F) during the day and about 55-60 degrees (F) at night. I try to keep the pH around 6.
Thank you so much!
 

jartlow

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Usually around 65-70 degrees (F) during the day and about 55-60 degrees (F) at night. I try to keep the pH around 6.
Thank you so much!
That's pretty cold

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jartlow

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Also cfls 8" away? Yikes why not 2-3"?

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Elphy

Member
Thanks so much guys ^.^ I was taking some advice from a friend who is also growing, but I think I should avoid it in the future =-P. We initially put our lights 2-3 inches away from the plants but she insisted the reason the one was droopy was because the heat from our lights.

I'll have to check their temp. at night, Im honestly not 100% sure what temp it goes down to. I know that our thermostat goes down to 55 at night. (I'm assuming you meant that it was cold at night, right?)

I just checked the pH and the meter seems to be correct, but I was reading that the ideal pH is 5.7? Would you agree? I can be more diligent on adjusting her pH as needed. I feel like she's always climbing up to 6.5 throughout the day.

So I've adjusted her lights, am monitoring her pH and will check on the temp. Any other suggestions? ^.^
Thanks again! I really appreciate it.
 

FullMelt

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is still think it's a ph issue.i had the same thing happen this week i topped off with low ph water it was around 5.4.i then mixed up a fresh gallon of nutes and ph of 5.8 and my plant looks healthy and leaves reaching for light(praying).this is how i know she's happy with a ph of 5.8-6.0.if you have a iphone i would suggest you get the Grodan app it has helped me keep track of everything,and figure out what the problem could be.
 

jartlow

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Lights should be 2-3 for cfl t8 etc.. If it burns your hand after 60 seconds it's too close.

55° is very cold but people will say in nature temps drop to that but just my .02

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