New to Hydro... How are they looking?

Still weeping!!! They look exactly the same after I turned off the water for a couple hours... any other ideas?!?!

have you got any fans in room . dont know if it will help with wilting , but it will perk them up a bit , then they might sort themselves out

i would put a message on for zandor or robert 42 they know alot more about hydro than i do
got me intrested though ive never come across weeping plants.

they look phat by the way nice big fan leaves
all the best
clem the bob of 101

Sufocating plants. PH too high AND over fert AND no aerated water, the leaves from the bottom have brown areas, soon all the leaves will be like that. You've got to flush your plant with PH 6 water and add an air stone to your rez, put the bulb a little bit higher till they recover and put a oscillating fan, and wait one week at least. That's what i would do.
Fhydro

Absolut,

As clembob101 said, put something out for Zandor... he'll help you better than us.

I read that you wanted to re-pot them... I suggest against this. I'm totally open to all opinions from everyone here, but:
I think that if you replant your baby you'll produce way too much stress on her. Maybe you'll stun grow for god-knows-how-long... that's my opinion.

Ok... thanks for all the help... turtle... good call... thats exactly why I was seeing opinions... I too thought it would increase the stress and right now I wasn't about to add that to the shit-list. Today they perked up a bit but I now I'll wait a couple hours and see if they begin the hardcore weeping again. I changed the water back to 15 on 15 off because last night it didn't show any difference at all and I watched them ALL THRU THE NIGHT! My pH is around 6ish but I'll give it a nute change and re-pH it, over fert could be a possibility and I'll definitly throw in an air stone. I already lifted the light... and constantly have a fan on them... buy my fan's lowest setting blows the @#$% out of them! So I put it back like 5 feet away from them and angled it so there is a steady flow into, over, and around the plants... what about temperature? It seems to have been getting colder the past couple nights, but is a couple degrees that important? If it is... I could put a heater in there with thermostat and monitor the temp to keep a perfect temp... what do you guys think? Again, thanks for all your help and I'll keep you guys posted with more pics and let you all know what's happening.

Absolut, I would suggest once your girls recovers, doing HARDDONS Stress Less Transplant.

http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=29705

Joel... great idea and I would definitly try that... but I'm doing hydroponics... if there is any way that I could take that system of transplanting with soil and use it with hydroton... that would be amazing... the only idea I have is:: get a bigger pot... fill it with hydroton... and put a fence up (like cardboard or something) that fits the shape of my current pot with hydroton... it's the same basic idea Harddon is saying but with hydroton... then I would somehow McGyver a type of cup that will hold all my current hydroton and roots together... turn the plant upside down... take the pot off... move it over the bigger pot with a fenced out hole... then put the McGyvered Cup inside the fence and then remove the McGyver cup and fence... do you think I should try that? The only problem is the hydroton moving around with the roots while transfering it... and I can't afford to break any roots. If you think I should do it... let me know... cuz I'll surely give it a shot. Thanks for the tips... lemme go take a look and see if the weeping has occurred again...

Ok... the weeping has slowed... they aren't weeping as much but the plant on the right has its upper leaves weeping... they are really green and pretty big... it looks like the leaf's stems can't support the leaves... but I know that's not the case... it doesn't seem like there's any huge problem so we'll see how it turns out!

Update... wow... doing amazing!!! Lemme get some pics up!!! Weeping has stopped... it might have been adding the air pump to the water... or making the water schedule slower at nights... i dunno... but whatever it was... they are doing excellent now!!

Here they are!!! What do ya think!!! Question... how does the budding begin? Where should I look for the first signs of nugget? I think I see something but not sure... do I look at nodes? Anyway... here they are 9 days into flowering!!!

Wow... really glad to see they're perking up!

I see that you've already added an air stone... I was going to tell you that... you definitely need an airstone in there... or two... or 100!!!! (ok, not that many).

They're looking good!!! Nice!

As to the transplant... EXPERIMENTAL IDEA:::

Why don't get a big soil pot... then fill it up with one of those super soil recepies, and dig a hole on top the same size as your current (small) pot.

Then, install the smaller pot into the hole, make sure it's super compact with soil... ok ready? here we go... now smash the smaller pot with a hammer and some pliers... take out as many pieces as you can...

Do you have a Dremel? You could saw off the bottom of the pot...

Anyways, ... Ta DA !!! What do you think?
You could change the super soil for some more hydroton pebbles... or some lava rocks...

???
Out,

-turtle420 :cool:

TURTLE! THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING! I may get a bigger pot... put hydroton in it...leave a little place for the current hydroton and roots... put it in... smash the pot... there's the transfer! Great idea... but right now I'm in the current process of moving it somewhere because my parents are flipping out. I'm currently building a phototron with 3 - 4' Dual fluoros... I'll take some pics of that too... but I think I may have to put together a make-shift setup in my closet just to finish the flowering. I don't want to put them anywhere where I can't use the HPS light because they're doing so well with it. But I'm stumped for some ideas... anyway... thanks for the ideas and I'll keep updating with pics...

Shmoke Nugg,
~ A.Chronic

AC, your plants are looking SWEET... careful transplanting from hydro to soil.. from what I have read and actually looked at, plants grow special roots for different mediums.. Plants grow "water roots" when in hydro .. and soil roots when in soil... duh.. ahhaa

and then there are these tiny one cell roots they grow in aeroponic systems.. if you switch to soil.. it could really really shock the plant and that is the last thing you want to do 9 days into flowering...... all though I would like to see you try it... hahahha

anyway.. you're doing awesome....

i love you

Thanks Knowm... didn't know that, interesting... I don't think I would transfer it to soil and I probably won't even transfer it to a bigger pot... the whole idea of it being in the flowering stage and transfering doesn't sound to reassuring... plus trying to move it to a different location is kind of a pain in the ass... but anything for my plants.... well thanks for the info, I'll keep it in mind...

i love u too

lol

Shmoke nugg,
A.Chron