My girls aren't doing so well. Pics and details.

I picked up four indica clones from a dispensary on Saturday. All four of them were well rooted (two in rockwool, two in coco peat). I transfered them into three gallon pots of coco coir that I had just flushed with 5.8 ph water. After one or two days in my 2x3x6 foot cabinet, they started drooping and curling a bit. The stems are also a bit purple and the leaves are a bit yellow in spots. Since I got them on Saturday, I have watered/fed them twice with half doses of Botanicare Cal Mag and Liquid Karma, feeding them until there was a little runoff. But they started looking kind of unhappy even before I fed them.

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Here's my setup:
-Twenty 23w 6000 lumen daylight CFL's (18/6 schedule, 16 on top, 2 on left and right sides)
-PC fan for intake blowing between the lights and the plants
-Bathroom ventilating fan on top for outtake (this creates pretty good airflow since the cabinet is sealed well)
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When I first put them in there I had the lights within 3 inches of the plants, but I have backed them off quite a bit because the leaves felt dry.

Here's where the temp and humidity have been at, fluctuating 5 degrees in either direction depending on time of day It's pretty damn dry in there.
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I need help. Is the humidity way too low? Too much temperature fluctuation? Too many lights for such young plants? Nutes? Is it too late to save these babies? (First time grower if you couldn't tell). Thanks in advance.

Have you tried turning the out take fan off, seem like there would be very little humidity.
Make sure you're soil is pretty dry before you water/fed them.
Make sure your fan isn't blowing on them and drying them out.

Like domed said, make SURE those pots are drying out between waterings. If the plants not growing, it's not using water, and you are doing it a disservice by watering again. The pot needs to dry out so that the roots will search for moisture. Roots "search" by growing, which is exactly what you want.

You can raise the humidity by hanging a wet towel near your fan. That'll be helpful for a few days until you have some more root growth.


They'll pull through just fine.

Thanks for the response guys. So you think I should let it dry out even though I'm using coco? Also, I forgot to mention that I'm using botanicare pure blend pro grow at half dose. Is this okay for a young plant?

I'd go with maybe a 1/4 dose until the growth rate picks up. You are using coco, but right now your roots are (mostly) still in the rockwool or whatever your clone was started in. So yes, that pot needs to dry up a bit between waterings. Even if they get TOO dry and droop completely, they will perk up again within a few hours of being watered. Don't recommend that, just sayin... Drying up ain't gonna hurt them.

I agree with spicy. Hey keep your eye open for root aphids.
I stopped buying buying clones because every time
i would bring infestation to my room. Spider mites too.
Hey why can't I give rep? There is no badge symbol
there. Anyone?

So... I had the thermometer up at the top of the cabinet instead of near the plants, and it was reading a consistant 75-80 degrees. When I put the thermometer down by the plants, it was 90 FUCKING DEGREES. They have been like this since saturday. Is there any hope of recovery??? Talk about newb problems.

Alex Chilton said:

So... I had the thermometer up at the top of the cabinet instead of near the plants, and it was reading a consistant 75-80 degrees. When I put the thermometer down by the plants, it was 90 FUCKING DEGREES. They have been like this since saturday. Is there any hope of recovery??? Talk about newb problems.

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they'll survive if they get enough airflow and water