Please help! Droopy Plants

Finally got the aquastat regulator fixed on our boiler...the heat is back on...bout time, that's why I was gone for a couple days...I'll be back later tonight just posting a few pics to show the update...it got very cold but thankfully they seemed to handle it alright probably extended overall grow time or just lost more yield but after everything else it's not a surprise haha...1 & 2 are Zola 3 & 4 are Eve

I'll update with the progress of other projects seedlings....new hydro unit and fert schedule...pics are 24 days flower

Looking good....coming along great!! :thumbsup:

I'm thinking about getting another light to grow the new ones under while the others finish so I remembered

WH you use a 1000watter is that a mag or digital and like what's the closest you can get it to your plants? If the 1000 would have to be more than 2feet away I'd probably have to go with the 600

The 1000 would work out cheaper with only 1 bulb doin the same as eventually trading the 400 I have now for another 600...

I've been looking at the new lumatek e-ballast with all cords and parabolic reflector 600w($300ish) or 1000($450ish) not sure if I wanna bother goin 240 or just stick with 120 but I'll worry about that once I decide on the ballast...

My 400w hps ballast from sun systems doesn't get very hot at all it's barely warm to the touch and I don't have a fan on it...is digital really as good as lumatek says....longer bulb life and like 10-30% brighter?

The only bad thing I've heard is that digitals can interfere with RF signals or whatever and I've heard some people say yes and no...I know some recent post used 4-750 digitals I think it was racerx...I'd go with the 600 or 1000 just so I could use any bulb...

Everything with the grow is goin well the ppm is down to 950 ph is about 5.3ish...probably have 5 weeks left unless they decide to finish earlier on their own

They are looking fabulous! They will be looking crazy pretty soon too! Look like you are starting to get some nice crystals on the leaves - good job ASD.

950? Is that because of the bloom stimulator? I'll have to go check my ballast....I know it's not digital but it does go back and forth from hps/mh. I remember asking at the time whether I should go with several 600's vs 1000 for my room (8 waterfarms) and he told me 1000 was better than several lights and I'll be damned if I remember the why. I also asked him about conversion bulbs etc and the discussion came down to the best way to go. In his view the best way to go was 1kw switchable and i don't remember digital entering the conversation.

PS....mine is 120v

Ok my ballast is from Sunlight Supply and is called a GroPro.....i asked him which would be best and that's what he sold me. Along that same line the reflector I bought was.....Sun Systems by Sunlight Supply. Just to brag I saw the same reflector mentioned in Jorge's Cervantes book Marijuana Horticulture as being one of the best values in North America....whatever that means.

I am in the process of trying to decide how low I can get my hps bulb to my plants. The reflector is air-cooled with a 170cm inline fan and I have been working with X-Crispi on making improvements in the way I had it set up which has made quite an improvement in its cooling ability. I do not recommend trying a 1kw without some sort of cooling system......it will bake you right out of the house.

My light and ballast are from sun systems sunlight supply as well and I've been very pleased...my 400w ballast runs relatively cool although it is pretty heavy...

I've just started hearing about digital ballasts all over the place and it seems that previous digitals had all kindsa problems etc...although the newer ones are supposed to be quirk free

I found out that 240v runs with less amps so it saves a bit of money...not much though the main thing it seems to do is put out less heat from the ballast...I'd assume the bulb itself produces atleast the same if not more heat (if it really burns brighter) so I'd definately have to get some sorta cooling plan in place...the basement stays "very" cool though so keeping the room below 80 will not be an issue regardless of light...actually I was thinking of using an open parabolic reflector with a fan just blowing across the top of the room...

As long as the production bugs are fixed I'm thinking about gettin the 1kw digi from lumatek but I'm still waiting for an e-mail response from the manufacturer it would be nice to have some extra light to grow other stuff so regardless of brand I think 1kw is the way to go

How are your girls goin WH they must be getting pretty big by now...

I read that you are supposed to exhaust air with the fan to cool the light apparently that's better to do than pushing air through and out the other side...ya porbably already had it setup that way but just as a heads up ;-)

yes, that's the way mine is set up. And you'd be surprised just how much heat these bulbs put out, especially the mh bulb more so than the hps. ...the ballast is nothing in comparison heatwise. Believe me ASD, get you something to cool with if you go with 1kw.

My plants are doing well four or five days into flower....nothing showing yet. I'll take a photo of them and post it later today. They are extremely resistant to my increasing the ppms on them.....right now they are at 650 with the old sicko at 575. Everytime I try to jump them up they don't do well so I'm sticking with that. They seem quite happy with it although being THAT low makes me nervous.

Speaking of which.....your ppms at 950? Was that suggested w/your bloom stimulator because if not kick them back up to 1200 (slowly please). Now is the time to push them to the edge.....pretty soon they will be chopped and smoked so its now or never. Obviously if that is what is recommended for some reason then please ignore this entire last paragraph.

So here's some new photos....think I'm on day 5 bloom. (I do have it written down Bonger just too lazy to walk accross the room and look so ha :p) They are such different heights etc I had trouble getting a good photo of all of them so pretty much front to back.