I am new and they are starting to Droop (pics included)

Okay well i have been trying to read the forums and figure this out. I have included pics to help out. The leaves as you can see are curling under and they look sick. The light that they are under is a 600 watt hortalux. I have my ballast turned to like 60% and up about 3 or 4 feet. I have a lumen meter and they are receiving about 500 lumens right now. The temp is about 68F or 20C ambient and the temp under the light is about 2 or 3 degrees more. I have been using General Hydroponics Flora series and I am following their feed schedule. The nutrients are about 800ppm and the PH is at 6 to 6.3. I have them planted in a rock wool base with hydroton as a the top half of the cup. I have them transplanted into Red Solo "keg" cups. I just moved them under the 600 on friday and I had the light up about 3 or 4 feet and on 100% and they were getting about 1000 lumens and seemed to be doing okay. The next day i was told to move it down a little bit and more the next day until i was about 2 feet up. Well I moved it like the grow store guy told me and then I come home from work and I see them drooping. I checked to see if they were watered and I realized that there was a bit of standing water in the bottom of the cup (i realize now how much they drink lol). I was wondering if you guys could tell me if they are F'd or if they will bounce back in a day or two.

they should bounce back.....if you rememdy all your wrongs. lol.

let me roll one up before i get to going.......

okay, where to start. first things first, you'd be better posting your plant problem in the plant problems sub-forum. this way you will get more views and the right views.

also, you'll want to copy and paste the troubleshooting form into your post (leave the questions, put your answers after in BOLD).

did you presoak your rockwool and hydroton?

rockwool has a tendency to hold water. and hydroton has a tendency to have a rising pH. you might want to go with different mediums. just a thought.

for hydro you want a pH of 5.3-5.8 or so. 6 isn't too bad, but it's not really where you want to be.

do you have drain holes for your cups?

you can answer those questions here, but i would do the plant problems forum like i said before.


-shake

id ease off a little on the feeding to id keep it around 400-500 ppm for another week or so then go a little higher they are still kinda small to be feeding that much. I know hydroton and rockwool and rockwool will hold water a decent ammount of time and def get some drainage in those cups.

-secret:)

okay so if i make some drainage holes and lower the ppm a bit they should recover?

Despite what some people may think this plant is simply a weed and it is very simply a plant supply it with the things it needs and it will reward you. if drainage and less nutes dont make it bounce back then once you have definatly ruled those things out change another variable until you achieve the positive outcome.

-secret:)

alright well Im making a post in the other forum as well if this still goes on. I took some water with a ph of 6 and gave each plant about 25ml each to flush and dilute the nutrients. I poked 4 nice little holes in the bottom of the cup and when I added the water a lot of it came back out but it looked a little red like the grow nutrient so im pretty sure that will help. I just need to learn my nutrients grow schedule lol. Thats for the replies :thumbsup: