Drooping Leaves....

Closet Grow, bagseed, appx. 25 days veg., FF Ocean mix (started w/ black gold seedling mix), good sized pots (1'' of rocks at bottom for drainage), 400w HPS, 18/6. Good ventilation, fans on.

1/2 R/O water, 1/2 distilled water /gallon 1/4 tsp. fish emulsion (5-1-1), 1/4 tsp. Max-sea all purpose (16-16-16) Slightly burnt 1 plant 1st feeding, flushed w/a little h2o2 quickly and recovered. - Water once every 4-5 days, wait until 3-4'' down into soil is dry.

Temps 80-85 day, 60-70 night. humidity 50-60 - I just raised the lights about 2', they were way too close at 2' ft. away (4' distance now, temps settled to about 78:thumbsup:) Leaf edges were curling up/still healthy green. (First indoor grow....!:jointsmile:)

In the morning, all shoots/leaves have much turgor, pointed up towards the light....They look awesome in the morning. (Lower temps...?)

Throughout the day, and more dramatically towards the ends of the 18 hrs., the leaves droop as if they had been over watered/under watered. All plants just go limp. I've been searching around for answers but no dice so far....any suggestions?

- Pics are taken at 17.25/18 hr. day cycle.

Here are pics at 2:00/18:00 hr. (morning) Notice the difference?

BTW, the one in middle, back row, looks different (and smaller) cause i ran out of FF while repotting, smallest plant at the time had to accept 1 part FF, 1 part leftover Black Gold.

Think u might need to feed every other day, they might be a bit dry after 4/5 under that 400w for 18h a day X 4 = 72 hours!! Thats a long time at 80, 85, not a soil grower my self but your plants look like they need some thing and its not, not having a drink,, try feed 2 or 3 every other day see how they take to it, sure they will pick up, but still it looks like your doing well, try not to worry to much on the first grow, i was the same!! Doing good my freind..

Green boy

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Originally Posted by greenboy

Think u might need to feed every other day, they might be a bit dry after 4/5 under that 400w for 18h a day X 4 = 72 hours!! Thats a long time at 80, 85, not a soil grower my self but your plants look like they need some thing and its not, not having a drink,, try feed 2 or 3 every other day see how they take to it, sure they will pick up, but still it looks like your doing well, try not to worry to much on the first grow, i was the same!! Doing good my freind..

Green boy

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Hmmm....you sure? The amount of...droopage...seems to be independent from the water level, same droop regardless of how dry it is. (Also, I see the drooping when I DO water too much, that only lasts for an evening/night.)

Could this just be natural? Is this the plants way of saying its sleepy/sleeping?

Just try two see how they go, sounds like you really what to care for your ladys,, they will grow big and strong,,, belive,,,, I have only done 1 grow my self and i used to worry all the time about stuff, mine where well bad leaves drooping and shit and i mean drooping yellow as fuck, on there death bed,, but still its a weed, mine got better and had really good crop,, Your crop at the mo looks good, no worrys at all,
Its not going to do any harm just watering 2 plants every other day and the rest as you are now see how it goes,

Hope this helps, keep me updated on how your grows doing, I will try and post some stages of my first say 5 weeks of growing and show ya how bad they where, and how they picked up..

green boy

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Hi all, My 1st time grow & in the UK, with the same problem, In the evenings my white widow droop. I just re-potted from 6" to 3 gallon pot & still got same problem. But in the mornings she sits up proud with her Leaves. Even b4 the re-pot she droop her Leaves, But only late evening times (Around darkness time) I use to water every 3 days & also tried every 2 days (still same problem), yet an indoor grow under CFLs 18/6 - Tried 4" from plant with lights, 5" & 6" windows open, closed. If you get any replies or find A answer plz let me know too.

Photos at :- true story

or on my profile @ Cannabis dot com (not sure how to post pix here yet)..

Thanks.

If your still vegging try giving them more light. Maybe try 20/4. Are you using Cal Mag? I just use straight ph'ed tap water but from what I understand if your using RO or Distilled water you need to use cal mag to put back esential minerals removed from the water by these proceses. Hope this helps.:rasta: