My drooping leaves discovery

[newgrowguy]

As a newbie grower, I wanted to share this discovery with anyone it might help. Been dealing with my lone first plant for 3 weeks now. Talk about a rollercoaster! The plant looks great, the plant looks like its dying, great,dying, ugh! I have soil that drains very well, have only watered 2x/week when the soil is fairly dry 2 inches from surface. All measurable nutes are good, leaves looked great. Four days after last watering, plant looks wilted. OK, soil didn't seem too dry but wasn't really moist either. So I water it. Within 2 hours leaves are up, all is good with the world, again. Yea! That night leaves are drooping, sonofabitch! Now this one plant is in a large room, under HO flouros 2inches from plant tops, a ceiling fan circulating air and a box fan pulling air out of an open door. Average temps in the mid 70s. The humidity had climbed from about 50 to close to 80%. By the next morning it looks totally wilted. I could only think of one thing to do. I turned the box fan around so it was blowing gently on the plant from about 6 feet away. Within 3 hours the plant looks fantastic! Uneffinbelievable! I can see how new growers can end up overwatering and I still don't understand what actually occurred, but wanted to throw it out there. Good luck all.

[HK Slyone]

if you are watering in soil the best way is when you water the pot should be heavy when the pot is light is need some water hope that helps

[mellogold]

ok this is by far the easiest way to water y our plants

when i give you this info i am assuming you have your water phed and stuff alsready, and when you water your plant the first hour to two hours each time you water your plants will look liek shit

first anitial watering .....DRENCH THIS PLANT TO HELL, water it with alot of water, generally the rule of thumb iv always used is if your using 1 gal containers water with 2 gal of water, doing this will remove unwanted salt build up

now DO NOT WATER YOUR PLANTS AGAIN UNTILE THE SOIL IS COMPLETLY DRY

to check this you can either pick up a soil moister meter at your local home improvment store or you can do what i use to do befor i went hydro

take your middle or pointer fingure and stick it inthe dirt as far as you can, if the first 3" of your fingure is dry in the dirt water it, if its moist lay off the water

when you have a dry plant water it again with a shit ton of water, doing this will remove salt buildup and also will promote excellent root growth throughout the whole entire pot, not jsut the bottom of the pot, this method also keeps your plants form becoming root bound