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im wondering why all the fingers on my latest leaves fold up like tacos, at first i thought it was due to overwatering but i let em dry a day they went kind of normal and the day after that they were looking pretty taco-like again. Im using promix ultimate organic mix with no nutes yet, watering with ph 6.5 water and plant is under 3 42 watt warm cfls and 3 23 watt cool cfls, plant is about 4 inches under the light, any ideas about whats up with the leaves? besides the curling they look healthy
Do you have a thermometer? If so you have probably used it to check the temp. in ur growing area. If you havent you should do so, then report back imediately.
From what I know your leaves turning into taco-shells is usually due to high temp.'s. I dont know too much about your set up though to try and help you properly. If you go into your growing area for a while and start to sweat cause its too hot, than its too hot for your plants. We need more infor about your situation though.
You could try to move the plant further from the lights, and if it gets better then you know its too close to the light, and maybee got too hot, but I know that your CFL's probably run very cool, so that may not be the problemo.
You need to get more info and some pictures stat.
i am growing in a rubbermaid container (with no lid on) and i dont know the temp but i can assure you if i was small enough to live in that box, i would have no problem with the temp. I put my hand over the plant and i cant feel any heat from the light at all, the only other info i can think of telling you is that i previously had the plant in some crappy soil that was very high in nitrogen and basically what i did was ripped the poor looking plant out of that soil which ripped about 95% of the roots off and stuck it into the promix organic. but this was about 2 weeks ago and since then the plant has been growing wonderfuly until about 2 days ago. but i will move it a little further from the light for a day or 2 and see if that helps the situation