are my nutes too cold?

[esc0bar]

my nutes temp is 58 f because its in my basement and its cold.. the room temp is like 70 with the lights on.. the leaves just all of a sudden started drooping a lil bit everytime i feed them.. they were doin great before when the nutes were a lot warmer now all of a sudden i put them in the basement and the nutes and temp are colder and they droop when i feed them.. when i dont feed them like i did for 1 day they looked great again then i fed them a quick flood and they started to droop a littl ebit again. the ph is 6.6 and im usin gh nutes with superthrive everythin measured out perfect.. they were doin great there on week 3 of veg now all of a sudden teh droopy leaves after i moved them..

esc0bar Reviewed by esc0bar on 02-19-2007. are my nutes too cold? my nutes temp is 58 f because its in my basement and its cold.. the room temp is like 70 with the lights on.. the leaves just all of a sudden started drooping a lil bit everytime i feed them.. they were doin great before when the nutes were a lot warmer now all of a sudden i put them in the basement and the nutes and temp are colder and they droop when i feed them.. when i dont feed them like i did for 1 day they looked great again then i fed them a quick flood and they started to droop a Rating: 5

[stinkyattic]

well i think you answered your own Q lol
plus you're in hydro?... isn't that pH a bit high?

[esc0bar]

i put heaters next to the nutes and fed them one time and they started drooping again like they're being overwatered so much. the 1000 watt is like 16" away.. it has no ventliation on it yet but i have a fan blowing around.. the babies are 3 weeks old in veg and like 4-6" inches tall.. are they too small to put under there that close? they were only ona 400 watt mh for the first 2 weeks of there life

[foxysox]

Are you in dirt then?
Are the plants on the cellar floor?
GET THEM UP OFF THE FLOOR!!!
Put them on a slab of insul;ation, several layers of cardboard, ANYTHING.
That droop is not good. I hope you don't have root rot. Give them some serenade in their next watering, raise the light to avoid water loss by transpiration, and keep their roots above 60!

[esc0bar]

the temp of the nutes was 59-60 F and that was during the middle of the day so i can just imagine how cold they must get at night and early in the morning... yes they were on teh basement floor but i had a heater running nextg to them but it didnt do anything. im goin to put insulation under and around the nutes and see hwo that does.. does the cold nutes explain why the droopy leaves though? i think it was just putting them in shock everytime they got fed... im gona put insulation under it so its not just on the basement floor and hopefully that will raise the temp a lil

[stinkyattic]

You still have not answered the basic Q, are you in hydro or dirt?
You keep talking about nutes as if it's a reservoir, then you say you are manually feeding, wtf?
Last time I had to grow in a basement I put 2 shipping pallets on top of each other, put the plants on top of them, and had a heater blowing UNDER the pallets for bottom heat.

[esc0bar]

lol sorry stinky i was only manually feeding them that one day when they first started drooping and i just meant manually turning the pump on and off.. its an ebb an flow with nutes under the table.. i just put insulation and cardbord under the nutes and i have the heat fans blowing under the table at the nutes also..they're lookming better today anyway but i hope this works.. i think there stunted kuz they havent grown in a few days they've just been lookin good in the morning then drooping by the end of the night..

[esc0bar]

ok so the problem was that every day they start out fine then by the end of teh day like an hour before the lights supposed to shut off they are so droopy by that time.. ive changed the nutes and put a fresh batch of week 3 gh nutes in ( they were taking them all great from week1 and 2 so i know there not too strong).. ph has been adjusted to 5.8 the light was moved about 20" away from the tops.. got the fan really blowing around.. heat in the room adjusted to 79-80 degrees with heaters and nutes were placed on insulation and cardbord.. roots were also covered with mylar in strips with cardbord.. i picked up a few of them today to look at the roots they look good but there was a couple dead roots that i just pulled off . a lot of the roots have like a slimey brown coating on them but if i wipe it off it is very white and healthy looking but there are a few roots that just pull off like they are dead; im using fossill fuel humic acid which makes my nutes and stuff really brown so thats what im hoping it is not root rot. i didnt add the humic acid to this new nute batch only gh and superthrive and i fed them one time around 10 pm before the lights shut off at 12 and they were still drooping even after the feeding.. im goin to not feed them at all tommorow and then wait until the next day to feed them. they're like 5-7 inches tall and i feel like they havent grown in a few days since this new change.. i hope thats enoguh info for you guys to help me i know its long but plsss help!!.. i also have anti-wilt spray i was wonderin about that but im not gona spray it kuz its just for transplant shock and moisture it says.. but let me know what to do pls!!

[esc0bar]

pls anyone? and another thing would roots being expose to the light do cause the drooping to happen? its 10am right now they havent eatin since last night at 10pm and they're looking better already.. i have the roots covered with strips of mylar but there is a little leak of light here and there but the roots arent that big yet that they're even coming threw the sides so theyr'e not exposed really

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

For the love of pete, keep your roots out of the light.
I can't give you more help, I know fuckall about hydro. But I do know that roots don't like light.