Plants Wilting...

Strain: Sannie's Jack Herer Feminized seeds.

Medium: ProMix HP, added 2 tbs dolomite lime per gallon.

Nutes: General Hydroponics 3-part (Micro, Grow, Bloom) mixed exactly as the labels said.

Lighting: LED vegetative lighting (has always worked well in the past for me).

All 5 seeds germinated and did GREAT in 18-oz Dixie cups.

At 25 days old, I transplanted 3 of them into 5-gallon smart pots. Same medium and nutes.

The next day, the 3 transplanted plants began to wilt, but the 2 still in Dixie cups are still reaching to the sky with all their might.

So, why did the 3 transplanted plants begin to wilt? And 4 days later are still wilting?

Was it transplant shock (doubtful, since I was VERY careful)? Or could it have been because I transplanted small plants into large containers that were too large for them?

Again, the 2 plants still in Dixie cups are doing GREAT, in the same soil and under the same nutes and in the same grow room as the 3 plants that are wilting in their new 5-gallon smart pots.

Your thoughts?

well i mean if they where all the same and you xplanted some and they are wilting it probably means xplant shock or possibly they are now growing roots if thats the only difference. you can never put them in too big of a container....mother earth is a pretty big container last time i checked. give em a couple more days and i bet they will explode in growth compared to your other plants.

also since the medium is saturated when you xplanted i assume it could be that the cups are drying out faster or the medium is drier also.

pics always help man...ive done a lotta crazy experimental shit when transplanting never experienced "shock". kinda think its a myth. did you happen to water before and after transplant? wonder if the roots are starved of oxygen

koffinkush said:

pics always help man...ive done a lotta crazy experimental shit when transplanting never experienced "shock". kinda think its a myth. did you happen to water before and after transplant? wonder if the roots are starved of oxygen

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I thoroughly soaked the medium before transplanting. And again after they started wilting, I soaked them again thinking the low humidity had dried them out.

So maybe I've over-watered them.

probably overwatering. any my plants seem to wilt right before lights out and when lights are out as well. they stand at attention right before lights are on though!