Plants drooping after being watered?

mushroomcookiedough

mushroomcookiedough

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So it has been a few days since I watered my plants, and a couple started drooping slightly this morning, so I watered them all as the soil was dry, and now a few hours later, even more have started drooping, which doesn't make sense to me...

They recently started flowering, and I feed them every other watering. This time I watered them without nutrients, just water.

Specs:
Lightly Fertilized Soil
Sensi Grow&Bloom Nutrients
16 Plants (Triple XL Auto - Lineage Genetics) - Mostly Indica
11 litre / 2.4 gallon air-pots.
4x Mars Hydro TS1000 Lights (20:4hrs light/dark)
Temps: 25-28c
Humidity: 60-70% rH

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Herb & Suds

Herb & Suds

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mushroomcookiedough said:
So it has been a few days since I watered my plants, and a couple started drooping slightly this morning, so I watered them all as the soil was dry, and now a few hours later, even more have started drooping, which doesn't make sense to me...

They recently started flowering, and I feed them every other watering. This time I watered them without nutrients, just water.

Specs:
Lightly Fertilized Soil
Sensi Grow&Bloom Nutrients
16 Plants (Triple XL Auto - Lineage Genetics) - Mostly Indica
11 litre / 2.4 gallon air-pots.
4x Mars Hydro TS1000 Lights (20:4hrs light/dark)
Temps: 25-28c
Humidity: 60-70% rH

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I have excellent luck by reducing feed by half and feeding every watering
 
Jeffislovinlife

Jeffislovinlife

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First off I love your setup and they look thirsty I think you said it was a few days from the last time you water and as always thank you for your time and the best wishes to you and your
 
athlete

athlete

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It's amazing the contrast in suggestions you'll get from people...
The plants look like they're clawing, not drooping.
All I can be sure of is that the problem lies within the pots (medium/roots).
 
Kushash

Kushash

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Poor drainage is a possibility. Over saturating the soil and to heavy with the nutes are possibilities.

To me they look like they are trying to expel excess water from the soil. Leaves in this situation are filled with water vs underwatered leaves that become pail and weak from lack of water.
 
Nutty sKunK

Nutty sKunK

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Bear in mind each plant reacts differently to watering. They are like people and have preferences.

Couldn’t have a better example of the 4 plants I’m growing at the moment.

One stays perky during watering/dry period. Other gets perky after a watering and the other two droop. By the next day they are all perky again.

No need to be concerned about drooping unless they plant stays droopy for more than 12hrs.
 
Kushash

Kushash

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Nutty sKunK said:
Bear in mind each plant reacts differently to watering. They are like people and have preferences.

Couldn’t have a better example of the 4 plants I’m growing at the moment.

One stays perky during watering/dry period. Other gets perky after a watering and the other two droop. By the next day they are all perky again.

No need to be concerned about drooping unless they plant stays droopy for more than 12hrs.
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I agree with some of this but not the last sentence.
With little information given the OP will get different guesses, nothing new there.
I could still see drainage or watering improperly as the problem.
Why you would tell a person not to worry about it when there may be an adjustment that could improve the grow?

There's no reason to go on, the OP hasn't been around in 4 days, no reason for anyone to waste time on an issue that the OP is not stressing about.
 
Nutty sKunK

Nutty sKunK

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Kushash said:
I agree with some of this but not the last sentence.
With little information given the OP will get different guesses, nothing new there.
I could still see drainage or watering improperly as the problem.
Why you would tell a person not to worry about it when there may be an adjustment that could improve the grow?

There's no reason to go on, the OP hasn't been around in 4 days, no reason for anyone to waste time on an issue that the OP is not stressing about.
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Well the time frame was a guess, for me it’s the 4hr night cycle which they resolve themselves.

To be honest I didn’t read the post that thoroughly.

It was most likely as you say improper watering. Dry pockets occurring that shoot water out the pot giving the novics grower a false impression the media is saturated.

More on the of chance someone re-reads this thread that is curious about drooping. Oh he’s probably not back as they resolved themselves after the sleep lol
 
mushroomcookiedough

mushroomcookiedough

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@athlete @Kushash @Rurumo @Nutty sKunK

Sorry for the late reply. The plants were great the next day, so I am guessing they just needed time to recover from the under-watering. Thought the thread was dead, so I didn't bother checking back. Thanks for all the great suggestions and replies either way! :)

However, I am now experiencing some different issues... see the images, I describe the problem in more detail below, hopefully, someone can give me some advice.
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As you can see, some of the plants have shown signs of yellowing, and a few have shown signs of small brown spots (zoom in on image 2).
I was first thinking it was a nutrient deficiency of some sort, but after looking at the pots (aerated pots) the plants seem to be growing roots through the bottom of the pots, which I am guessing could be a reason for the problems? (using 11 litre / 3 gallon pots)

I was thinking of giving them some more nutrients to see if they get better.
Should I be worried about the roots? I was thinking of adding some soil around the roots so they don't dry out?

Any and all advice is highly appreciated. :)
 
Nutty sKunK

Nutty sKunK

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mushroomcookiedough said:
@athlete @Kushash @Rurumo @Nutty sKunK

Sorry for the late reply. The plants were great the next day, so I am guessing they just needed time to recover from the under-watering. Thought the thread was dead, so I didn't bother checking back. Thanks for all the great suggestions and replies either way! :)

However, I am now experiencing some different issues... see the images, I describe the problem in more detail below, hopefully, someone can give me some advice.
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As you can see, some of the plants have shown signs of yellowing, and a few have shown signs of small brown spots (zoom in on image 2).
I was first thinking it was a nutrient deficiency of some sort, but after looking at the pots (aerated pots) the plants seem to be growing roots through the bottom of the pots, which I am guessing could be a reason for the problems? (using 11 litre / 3 gallon pots)

I was thinking of giving them some more nutrients to see if they get better.
Should I be worried about the roots? I was thinking of adding some soil around the roots so they don't dry out?

Any and all advice is highly appreciated. :)
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Roots aren’t the issue. When soil dries pH/microbes die and this causes nutrient deficiencies.

Keep them from getting to dry and the deficiencies should stop unless there is an imbalance somewhere.

Couldn’t see much with my bleary morning eyes but rust spots are calcium and yellowing is N. Again most likely
Caused by the drying out.
 
Kushash

Kushash

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Nutty sKunK said:
Roots aren’t the issue. When soil dries pH/microbes die and this causes nutrient deficiencies.

Keep them from getting to dry and the deficiencies should stop unless there is an imbalance somewhere.

Couldn’t see much with my bleary morning eyes but rust spots are calcium and yellowing is N. Again most likely
Caused by the drying out.
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Not picking on you by critiquing you two times in a row but this has to be called out or it can cause the OP and others to misdiagnose the situation.

If the plant is yellowing from the bottom it might be N.

If the plant is yellowing near the canopy as it appears to me in the pic it is more likely a PH or a toxic level of bloom food issue causing lock out.

He's using a bloom food in early flower so I would be suspicious of it being something other than an N deficiency.

Adding food might be adding to the problem.

The 1st question would be did the op increase bloom food in the last two or 3 weeks? A common mistake.
 
Nutty sKunK

Nutty sKunK

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Kushash said:
Not picking on you by critiquing you two times in a row but this has to be called out or it can cause the OP and others to misdiagnose the situation.

If the plant is yellowing from the bottom it might be N.

If the plant is yellowing near the canopy as it appears to me in the pic it is more likely a PH or a toxic level of bloom food issue causing lock out.

He's using a bloom food in early flower so I would be suspicious of it being something other than an N deficiency.

Adding food might be adding to the problem.

The 1st question would be did the op increase bloom food in the last two or 3 weeks? A common mistake.
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I could barely see the pictures my eyes where so fuzzy after eating too many sweeties.

You’re totally right - top yellowing is excess P/K yellowing from bottom to top is N.
 
mushroomcookiedough

mushroomcookiedough

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Kushash said:
Not picking on you by critiquing you two times in a row but this has to be called out or it can cause the OP and others to misdiagnose the situation.

If the plant is yellowing from the bottom it might be N.

If the plant is yellowing near the canopy as it appears to me in the pic it is more likely a PH or a toxic level of bloom food issue causing lock out.

He's using a bloom food in early flower so I would be suspicious of it being something other than an N deficiency.

Adding food might be adding to the problem.

The 1st question would be did the op increase bloom food in the last two or 3 weeks? A common mistake.
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I am using lightly fertilized soil, so for about the first month no feed was used, gradually the natural feed is being used by the plant, so its hard to say if I am giving it too much or too little food.

I am currently giving it Sensi Bloom, approximately feeding it once every 1-2 weeks, giving it about 25-50% of the recommended food. (1-2ml per liter instead of 4ml per liter). So I would say that I am pretty low on the feeding schedule, no?

athlete said:
Kushash, I deserve to be scolded! TY for helping : )

I'm just gonna stick to my little closet and forget that I thought I knew something. lol, no joke
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Hey, don't beat yourself up about it :p We all make mistakes in life, it's part of the fun!
 
athlete

athlete

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Thank you for being so kind...

I put myself in check.

I HATE when people have such a strong opinion about something that they have little to no information/knowledge on. I found myself doing just that....
 
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