My back Ice plant is droopy, help.

[bfwork111]

My black ice plant has been in flowering for 3.5 weeks and for the past week or two the leaves seem to be drooping too much. the bud tops still seem to be growing and everything else in the flowerroom is doing fine. the temp is usually around 75 but since I added the CO2 a few days ago the temp has been on avg. 3-7 degrees warmer. the humidity is at 40%. I am using a waterfarm topfeed system. Iconic nuts. with greenfuse stimulator, Iconic boost, and fossil fuels. The EC is at a 1.7 and the pH is close to a 5.7.

bfwork111 Reviewed by bfwork111 on 03-20-2010. My back Ice plant is droopy, help. My black ice plant has been in flowering for 3.5 weeks and for the past week or two the leaves seem to be drooping too much. the bud tops still seem to be growing and everything else in the flowerroom is doing fine. the temp is usually around 75 but since I added the CO2 a few days ago the temp has been on avg. 3-7 degrees warmer. the humidity is at 40%. I am using a waterfarm topfeed system. Iconic nuts. with greenfuse stimulator, Iconic boost, and fossil fuels. The EC is at a 1.7 and the pH Rating: 5

[bfwork111]

just went to fill up the tank today and found that the plant has taken up no nuits. could this be pH lock up?

[LOC NAR on probation]

How can you tell they habe not taken up nutes ?

[palerider7777]

How can you tell they habe not taken up nutes ?

lmao...

[palerider7777]

start from the basics first,what is you're ph? if it's in the right range then you go to how are you growing them out?soil?hydro? if soil droopy plants can mean alot of things not enough watering or overwatering? in hydro droopy plants can be from foliar spraying with lights out will sometimes do this and is normal.do they perk up at all any time during the day or have they been like this constant? also have you moved them latey? maybe for a nute change? sometimes if you break off any roots this can happen also?

[bfwork111]

the pH is in the right range. I am using hydro top-feed set-up.

I knew it didn't eat any nuits b/c every time I added water before the nuit level would be lower than the previous time. This last time the nuits were at the same level, even after filling up the bucket up half way.

[martyrprojekt]

the pH is in the right range. I am using hydro top-feed set-up.

I knew it didn't eat any nuits b/c every time I added water before the nuit level would be lower than the previous time. This last time the nuits were at the same level, even after filling up the bucket up half way.

This makes no sense to me. What we are asking you to do is to tell us the PPM when you put your nutes into the feeding system...and what your PPM now. That would be the only way to tell us if they are, in fact, feeding on water instead of nutes.

One thing is certain...the plant looks like crap. Please fill out the trouble shooting form, because our answers are based upon the limited information you have provided...and to be blunt, you didn't give us nearly enough information to diagnose your problem.

It could me a million different things...Nute issues, lockout, PH problems, bad water source, lack of cal-mag, etc.etc.etc. Without knowing the full picture, we are doomed to giving you bad advice. :wtf: And, I do not like to give bad advice.

[bfwork111]

I use EC when measuring my nuits. I use ionic and this is what they use too. I do not know what the equivalent is for PPM.
As i said before I know it has not taken up any nuits because the level has remained the same. This is true no matter which way I measure. The pH is always 5.8-6.2 usually 6.0.
I think you might be right about the roots being the problem because the waterfarm top feed system I am using has allowed the root to poke through on the edges which is why its easy for them to get damaged when we are filling up the bucket.

[LOC NAR on probation]

EC even better. Tell us the EC when you mix nutes and the EC now.

If EC goes up after a day or so, Then they are drinking water.
If EC goes down then more nutes are taken up.
Nutes fallow the water line. Without water no nutes travel.

I have never seen more than a slight dif in nute uptake. The big dif is in when water levels fall and concentrate the nutes.

Plants also piss in your water or give off waste to keep the EC up. That's why no big change in nutes.