Mattywolffer
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Northeasten US outdoor grow in a mix of organic super soil in 30gal pots. Fed only water (until last week I started with SST) the entire life of the plants (watering schedule is about 2gal every 2 days). Plants have been absolutely perfect up until this point. 7 plants, 3 still left in veg. Starting yesterday, day 1 after feeding, the leaves on 2/3 of the plants still in veg have started to droop, overall the plant looks like it has lost its vitality (branches no longer pointing up to the sun).
ALL PLANTS:
-The watering schedule has been pretty consistent all around, 2 gal every 2 days or so unless I work around a storm. At first I was thinking that they could have been over watered, and due to me moving one of the effected plants (last week before the drooping) lower on the hill and having to dig it into the ground slightly that maybe too much moisture built up and the roots were being deprived of oxygen, however this has been addressed and after 30 or so hours, still no change. Not to mention it wouldnt explain why the second plant is also showing drooping since its above ground.
-Never added a chemical/nute to the girls OTHER THAN - azomite, compost, veg dry amendments, coco coir + perlite mixed into the soil from the start. The past two feedings I have been giving them 1 - 2 gallons of seed sprout tea (alfalfa sprout). The plants looked GREAT after the first feeding (1 gal SST, 1 gal water). The drooping of these 2 girls comes after the second feeding (2gal SST). Since the SST doesnt contain "nutes", and the leaves show no sign of yellowing, AND based off of the other 5 plants looking great, I dont believe the cause to be from this. I will mention that the regular water feedings come from the hose (tap). The tap water in this area is amazing, not treated with chemicals and rated one of the best in the country. However for the SST feeding I used distilled water from the store - once again shoots down this being the problem in my head since the other 5 plants look great.
-Treated with neem once every 7-12 days since week 4 of veg, no pest infestation present (I do see a lot of little leafhoppers, spiders, weevils, the general type of insects you would find around here, however no damage or sign of a destructive pest in sight!) upon checking the soil, due to outdoor + organic im assuming is why there are tons of critters living in the soil and I have not identified one of them to be a threat, so im not thinking its pest related.
-Weather has been consistently 75-90 during the day and 60-75 at night. Recently there has been a little jump in temperature to the high 80s for about 3 days. There was a period of about 5 days where the temperatures were between 90-100 about 4-5 weeks ago and none of the girls showed signs of heat stress - so I cant imagine this time around the temps are effecting only these 2 in a negative way.
(The two strains effected are Cali Orange, and Underdawg OG and have been my BEST growing plants out of the entire grow)
I understand the drooping is not the worst, and the leaves look healthy, but im looking to get ANY input I can on the problem before it could get worse. All conditions stated above go for every plant growing, and are the only scenarios I can think of that would have a negative effect on the plants - however they are conflicting scenarios in my mind. Thank you for taking the time to read through this, if you have any advice or tips for me I would greatly appreciate it
ALL PLANTS:
-The watering schedule has been pretty consistent all around, 2 gal every 2 days or so unless I work around a storm. At first I was thinking that they could have been over watered, and due to me moving one of the effected plants (last week before the drooping) lower on the hill and having to dig it into the ground slightly that maybe too much moisture built up and the roots were being deprived of oxygen, however this has been addressed and after 30 or so hours, still no change. Not to mention it wouldnt explain why the second plant is also showing drooping since its above ground.
-Never added a chemical/nute to the girls OTHER THAN - azomite, compost, veg dry amendments, coco coir + perlite mixed into the soil from the start. The past two feedings I have been giving them 1 - 2 gallons of seed sprout tea (alfalfa sprout). The plants looked GREAT after the first feeding (1 gal SST, 1 gal water). The drooping of these 2 girls comes after the second feeding (2gal SST). Since the SST doesnt contain "nutes", and the leaves show no sign of yellowing, AND based off of the other 5 plants looking great, I dont believe the cause to be from this. I will mention that the regular water feedings come from the hose (tap). The tap water in this area is amazing, not treated with chemicals and rated one of the best in the country. However for the SST feeding I used distilled water from the store - once again shoots down this being the problem in my head since the other 5 plants look great.
-Treated with neem once every 7-12 days since week 4 of veg, no pest infestation present (I do see a lot of little leafhoppers, spiders, weevils, the general type of insects you would find around here, however no damage or sign of a destructive pest in sight!) upon checking the soil, due to outdoor + organic im assuming is why there are tons of critters living in the soil and I have not identified one of them to be a threat, so im not thinking its pest related.
-Weather has been consistently 75-90 during the day and 60-75 at night. Recently there has been a little jump in temperature to the high 80s for about 3 days. There was a period of about 5 days where the temperatures were between 90-100 about 4-5 weeks ago and none of the girls showed signs of heat stress - so I cant imagine this time around the temps are effecting only these 2 in a negative way.
(The two strains effected are Cali Orange, and Underdawg OG and have been my BEST growing plants out of the entire grow)
I understand the drooping is not the worst, and the leaves look healthy, but im looking to get ANY input I can on the problem before it could get worse. All conditions stated above go for every plant growing, and are the only scenarios I can think of that would have a negative effect on the plants - however they are conflicting scenarios in my mind. Thank you for taking the time to read through this, if you have any advice or tips for me I would greatly appreciate it
