Looking under watered?

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Username85

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So wondering if my plant looks possibly under watered or if temps were too high. My one plant is looking pretty listless today.
During lights on yesterday temps got up to around 88° for maybe an hour or two, night temps were 77° (had a much warmer day than usual)
Currently watering every 3 days, 5 gal fabric pot (FFOF/FFHF), 2 gal water per plant. I’ve noticed soil seems pretty dry by day 2, but I’m trying to be very careful and not overwater. I can’t really lift pots to check for weight, so have just been going on my schedule.
What do you think, change the watering to every 2 days?10E53450-C0CC-4B72-BC01-22F92FBF72FA.jpeg9AEC6E12-4F19-4C56-BF19-08E98CE0481D.jpegDCFC5217-C257-4E94-ACE5-2459975A138A.jpegB6AE4CCC-E567-4CFF-8752-B4F3AD966C54.jpeg
 
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CaliRootz88 said:
Lift the pot and feel the weight. The top could be dry but still heavy at the bottom.
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Today was a water day, I watered right after taking these pics lol. Here’s a pic of them from this past Wednesday, last feed was 3/3. I feel they look overwatered, but I’m 99.99% certain that’s not happening this time6C38FEA0-32F9-455D-AFF2-4DFA27CDB8B2.jpeg
 
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Here’s a pic of the plant about an hour after watering. Over watered, under watered, under fed, over fed?
Looks like could be too much N: water, water, feed (2 tsp Tiger Bloom per gal of water/add ph up to get back into range)A0180988-7D86-4E00-9889-98EC85D07554.jpeg
 
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Kassiopeija said:
what's with the burn?
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Talking about the plant on the right?
That plant has had some weird unknown leaf issue since a baby-thought it would grow out of it, but never did. Ph in range, temps/Rh are in range-only started feeding nutes about a week after 12/12 flip, no bugs that I can see. It’s a complete mystery to me, growing her out to more or less see how it goes
 
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Username85 said:
Talking about the plant on the right?
That plant has had some weird unknown leaf issue since a baby-thought it would grow out of it, but never did. Ph in range, temps/Rh are in range-only started feeding nutes about a week after 12/12 flip, no bugs that I can see. It’s a complete mystery to me, growing her out to more or less see how it goes
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it's not spreading onto the others?
would watch out for this one to herm
 
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Kassiopeija said:
it's not spreading onto the others?
would watch out for this one to herm
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No it hasn’t spread, and the leaf stem itself is strong and the leaves don’t ever seem to actually die and fall off, they just start to look horrible and then kinda stay there. I’ve almost been expecting it to herm, have to imagine something stressful is going on, but keeping a close eye.
Only stressor I can think of is that when she was sprouting through the soil she had a bad case of helmet head and was stunted for a good 10 days, cotyledons yellowed before a second set of leaves started-not sure if that caused it though
 
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Buddtholomew said:
Does your light have a dimmer?
On some occasions, wilted or lifeless leaves are a result of too high light intensity (not high temperatures).
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I do have a dimmer. I just went from an SF1000 to an SF2000 maybe a week ago, but I would think the intensity would be the same-SF2000 is basically 2x1000s connected-I’ll try and lower the intensity and see if that helps
 
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Username85 said:
So wondering if my plant looks possibly under watered or if temps were too high. My one plant is looking pretty listless today.
During lights on yesterday temps got up to around 88° for maybe an hour or two, night temps were 77° (had a much warmer day than usual)
Currently watering every 3 days, 5 gal fabric pot (FFOF/FFHF), 2 gal water per plant. I’ve noticed soil seems pretty dry by day 2, but I’m trying to be very careful and not overwater. I can’t really lift pots to check for weight, so have just been going on my schedule.
What do you think, change the watering to every 2 days?View attachment 5097239View attachment 5097240View attachment 5097241View attachment 5097242
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Water them more often. They don't like waiting 3 days anymore it looks like. They're probably just drinking a lot more right now since they're in the middle of flower.
 
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PadawanWarrior said:
Water them more often. They don't like waiting 3 days anymore it looks like. They're probably just drinking a lot more right now since they're in the middle of flower.
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I’ve noticed my run off on today’s watering and the feeding on 3/3 was less than normal. I’ll try for every 2 days and see how they react
 
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Username85 said:
I’ve noticed my run off on today’s watering and the feeding on 3/3 was less than normal. I’ll try for every 2 days and see how they react
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What was the runoff EC and PH?

Also your Temps are too high when lights are on. Try to aim for 75-78f. Another fan pointing towards the light can help on a timer. Whats the humidity reading?
 
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Water when they need it...not before or after. Looking at the plant for signals may be too late for your eye. Lift or probe to set a level you can use as a baseline.

In flower you dont work quite as hard to let it dry out. That's a veg thing, to grow massive roots. In stretch, begin relaxing, just a little, the point at which you water.

You need a very consistent way of deciding to water, because how much it needs will vary a lot.
 
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silk689 said:
What was the runoff EC and PH?

Also your Temps are too high when lights are on. Try to aim for 75-78f. Another fan pointing towards the light can help on a timer. Whats the humidity reading?
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I didn’t bother with a runoff test, thought in soil runoff tests aren’t very reliable. I believe my ec was 1.2 and my ppm were in the 840/1200 range (recalling details from my log that I can’t get to right now). I use a ph drip kit and range is a little under 7.
 
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Username85 said:
I didn’t bother with a runoff test, thought in soil runoff tests aren’t very reliable. I believe my ec was 1.2 and my ppm were in the 840/1200 range (recalling details from my log that I can’t get to right now). I use a ph drip kit and range is a little under 7.
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Hey 85,

Soil runoff test CAN be reliable bro, theres just a little technique to it. Water it very very slowly. For example if i was gonna give it 500ml of water, i would do 125ml every 15 mins so in an hour ill have a nice “reliable” runoff reading rather then pour the whole 500ml of water in 1 go that comes out within 20 seconds. Make sense?

you never said whats the humidity your running? in soil try to also keep to that 6.5 ph level coming out. Your definitely gonna have to try and invest into a digital ph pen for more accuracy at some point then those drip kits ur using .
 
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