ARGHHHH, help

[masterg]

Hey people, ive just got back to da grow room, bin out for a couple of hours and the leaves have started to droop in6to the soil, got no strengh in them, any ideas?
Cheers.

masterg Reviewed by masterg on 09-19-2005. ARGHHHH, help Hey people, ive just got back to da grow room, bin out for a couple of hours and the leaves have started to droop in6to the soil, got no strengh in them, any ideas? Cheers. Rating: 5

[Zandor]

Temperature? Humidity? Ph? what does the water run off look like?

[masterg]

Hey Zandor, my temparature is 78 degrees F with the light on,
PH in the soil is about 6.8 - 7.
Humidity is about 55%
i let the water drain out the wholes when water then dont wate untill the soils pretty dry, i use moisture meter to check to be safe.
Cheers 4 helpin man.

[rysk8er420]

You probably watered them too much, i have also seen these symtoms from too much heat, but at 78 degrees it shouldnt be that.

[masterg]

Thanx Zandor and Rysk8ter420, you probly are right it could be over watering or 2 much nutrients, so i'll leave the plant food a little bit, plenty more suggestions welcome.
Cheers.

[Rezinator]

I can tell you that I was getting severely drooping leaves until I stopped using our tap water which is noticeably "hard" water.

You could have overwatered. You could also have overdone it with nutes for all I know on that so far, but if you have been using tap water only, you should get some distilled water and try that next watering/feeding, and see if that helps.

[masterg]

HEY people, ive been doing some research on my plant problem, and im prety sure that ive eigher over watered or over fertilized, any idea's how to solve problem(s)?

If its overfertilized i heard that i need to LEACH the soil, haha dont have a clue how 2 do that?
and if its overwatering i done, how do i solve that?

Cheers.

[Marc Benson]

If you over fertilized and don't have a soil that's pre-fertilized some support flushing (which is what you're calling leaching). Run water of at least 2 to 3 times the volume of soil through the soil. So if you have 3 gallon of soil run 6 to 9 gallons of water through it. This washes out most or a lot of the salts that are built up from over ferting. I use room temp water to almost luke warm when I do this. Cold water can shock the roots. Or so they say.

I've flushed plants a number of times and haven't seen a negative response. Always a good response. There's a medical grower that flushes 4 or 5 times throughout his grows and I've seen some of his 'work' and it'd blow you away. He just feels it's a good thing to flush the soil a number of times to keep things clean.

My one question would be if you have a moisture meter...how did you over water?? If you have over watered all you can do is try to get a fan on the soil and make sure the drain holes are not covered and get some air moving over it. If the plant is of any size it'll use it up fairly quickly though also. Also some suggest poking holes down through the soil to allow more air to get to it and dry it out, but I've never liked that idea. I would think you'd be poking through a lot of small roots plus I've always heard that it wasn't a good thing to let air hit the roots.

Hope that helps!

[Zandor]

Use a commercial flusher like GH florakleen for a few day's.

[masterg]

Thanx 2 everybody, you have all bin a massive help,

I flushed the soil yesterday and the water was full on yellow, i take it thats all the fertilizer coming out, now my question is how long untill it starts looking better?
at the moment it dont look better, if anythin the lower leaves have started to shrivel.
Is that normal?
anywayz like i say will it start improving quite quickly?
Cheers 4 helpin out people.