leafs curling down and slow flowering! please help!

[noobie501]

My white widow has been flowering for about 6 weeks, when I switched from 18/6 to 12/12 for about 2 weeks I didnt change the water, it didn't have much water at all. Leafs curled real bad, look like it was about to die, so I cut most of the real bad Leafs and have been giving plenty of water and light but ever since then it hasn't seem to fully recover. Still has curled Leafs and not much flowering progress, idk if I should keep trying or just cut it down, please help!

noobie501 Reviewed by noobie501 on 09-16-2012. leafs curling down and slow flowering! please help! My white widow has been flowering for about 6 weeks, when I switched from 18/6 to 12/12 for about 2 weeks I didnt change the water, it didn't have much water at all. Leafs curled real bad, look like it was about to die, so I cut most of the real bad Leafs and have been giving plenty of water and light but ever since then it hasn't seem to fully recover. Still has curled Leafs and not much flowering progress, idk if I should keep trying or just cut it down, please help! Rating: 5

[seldomBLUE]

Both of my WW's were doing the same thing. The funny thing about mine is that one is in soil and the other in a hydro (drip) system. There could only be one explaination. The root systems weren't getting completely watered/O2. I had dry spots in my soil plant. Forgot to let it soak in the runoff, providing the runoff pH/ppm test OK. I used a hydrometer on the hydro plant, 3" out from the plant/ 4" down into the hydro stones. After their 15min watering it was still dry, so i upped the feed time to 30min and now all's well. There's just as much to forget as there is to learn.

Unfortunately the correction only affects new growth. In your case, the bud. The dead stuff is dead and the bad stuff won't recover. Keep your rez level a min. of 12" deep. The deeper the better, O2 diffuses better in deeper water, or get lots of air stones. I would let it do whatever it's gonna do since you're past the 1/2 way point. Hope you cut a clone.

[cheeseyblue]

Can't really advise because I don't want you to cut it down when it could be ok. A picture would help everyone and no doubt attract more attention.