Help! I this a transplant shock?

bob_ross · Feb 8, 2020

Woke up this morning and my girl is looking super droopy. Is this a transplant shock? I double buffered my final pot and made sure the EC was under 1.2. My small one looks fine and the big one is looking like this. I watered it as i was doing before after the transplant.

My journal with detail: https://www.rollitup.org/t/my-first-grow-2x2x4.1004086/page-2#post-15303810

booms111 · Feb 8, 2020

bob_ross said:
Woke up this morning and my girl is looking super droopy. Is this a transplant shock? I double buffered my final pot and made sure the EC was under 1.2. My small one looks fine and the big one is looking like this. I watered it as i was doing before after the transplant.

View attachment 4474551

My journal with detail: https://www.rollitup.org/t/my-first-grow-2x2x4.1004086/page-2#post-15303810

Transplant shock that will go away in few days to a week. Raise your light up 6 inches or so to give it alittle break also.

bob_ross · Feb 8, 2020

booms111 said:
Transplant shock that will go away in few days to a week. Raise your light up 6 inches or so to give it alittle break also. Also 1.2ec is way high for a small seedling, .5ec to .8ec is range I'd look for at this plants stage of life.

Thanks. Hopefully she bounces back quick. I have my light on half power with the dimmer, should i still raise it.

booms111 · Feb 8, 2020

bob_ross said:
Thanks. Hopefully she bounces back quick. I have my light on half power with the dimmer, should i still raise it.

She should bounce back in few days. No I'd say your good on light if you dimmed it. I was just going off your journal pictures and how high the light is. Nevermind on the EC, 1 to 1.2 is good but I'd keep it on the weaker end for a few waterings

bob_ross · Feb 9, 2020

booms111 said:
She should bounce back in few days. No I'd say your good on light if you dimmed it. I was just going off your journal pictures and how high the light is. Nevermind on the EC, 1 to 1.2 is good but I'd keep it on the weaker end for a few waterings

They came back to life fully yesterday and leaves were to back to its normal state. But this morning it is back to the droopy state. Cant it be under-watering even through my coco is moist? My RH is at 53% and my temp is at 76F. I leave my light run over night and off during the day.

JohnDee · Feb 9, 2020

Bob,
You should be watering enough to get some runoff. If you do that...underwatering symptoms will be unlikely.
JD

booms111 · Feb 9, 2020

bob_ross said:
They came back to life fully yesterday and leaves were to back to its normal state. But this morning it is back to the droopy state. Cant it be under-watering even through my coco is moist? My RH is at 53% and my temp is at 76F. I leave my light run over night and off during the day.

right before lights out they will get droopy looking then spruce back up when lights come on, that's normal. see if they spruce up tonight when lights are on and if they do then there just looking droopy towards end of light cycle in anticipation of resting during lights out.

bob_ross · Feb 9, 2020

Yea. It did get better after the light turned on. Still i think it is struggling bit. I misted it today a bit because top of the coco looked dry. I did not water too much because i was worried about overwatering.

JohnDee · Feb 9, 2020

You can underwater coco but rarely is it overwatered...shoot for 20% runoff

DwayneWayne · Feb 9, 2020

bob_ross said:
Woke up this morning and my girl is looking super droopy. Is this a transplant shock? I double buffered my final pot and made sure the EC was under 1.2. My small one looks fine and the big one is looking like this. I watered it as i was doing before after the transplant.

View attachment 4474551

My journal with detail: https://www.rollitup.org/t/my-first-grow-2x2x4.1004086/page-2#post-15303810

Looks thirsty, did you water her in real well? It's ok to "overwater" for a transplant.

bob_ross · Feb 9, 2020

DwayneWayne said:
Looks thirsty, did you water her in real well? It's ok to "overwater" for a transplant.

Yeah thats what I was thinking. I read the clawing of the leaves were due to under watering. But i was worried my initial issue was over watering.

http://imgur.com/a/IRuBmYd

DwayneWayne · Feb 9, 2020

bob_ross said:
Yeah thats what I was thinking. I read the clawing of the leaves were due to under watering. But i was worried my initial issue was over watering.

http://imgur.com/a/IRuBmYd

I dont use coco but when I transplant clones to their final pots I water them into their new pre moistened soil with some good runoff and dont water again until the pot is super light weight and the first plant from that batch is wilted over from needing a drink.

So say that took 10 days, now I can water and go out skiing for 5 days with little worry right

curious2garden · Feb 9, 2020

DwayneWayne said:
Looks thirsty, did you water her in real well? It's ok to "overwater" for a transplant.

You can not over water coco. I've never seen it and I've put gallons through mine.

curious2garden · Feb 9, 2020

bob_ross said:
Yea. It did get better after the light turned on. Still i think it is struggling bit. I misted it today a bit because top of the coco looked dry. I did not water too much because i was worried about overwatering. View attachment 4475791

Water it, here's one of mine, watered and fed daily since it was a seedling. It would be really hard to overwater coco

bob_ross · Feb 9, 2020

Thanks guys. I will water her and see how she looks tomorrow.

DwayneWayne · Feb 9, 2020

curious2garden said:
You can not over water coco. I've never seen it and I've put gallons through mine.

I didn't know that. I put quotes around "oberwater" because I overwater every transplant as good practice.

I have only used coco as a layer between soil and rocks on hempy buckets. If I used only coco in a bottom draining pot with no res why cant it be overwatered?

JohnDee · Feb 9, 2020

DwayneWayne said:
I didn't know that. I put quotes around "oberwater" because I overwater every transplant as good practice.

I have only used coco as a layer between soil and rocks on hempy buckets. If I used only coco in a bottom draining pot with no res why cant it be overwatered?

Well that's a completely different situation and question. Straight coco drains well enough that overwatering just isn't an issue.
JD

DwayneWayne · Feb 9, 2020

JohnDee said:
Well that's a completely different situation and question. Straight coco drains well enough that overwatering just isn't an issue.
JD

Right on, thanks.

curious2garden · Feb 9, 2020

DwayneWayne said:
I dont use coco ....snip...

Coco is merely a different type of hydro. It's closer to running NFT rails or dwc than soil you can not overwater in either of those. Coco is an inert substrate that holds very little moisture. What is held is based mostly on water tension. So the finer coco you run, say pith, the more water it can hold but it doesn't hold much. So while it stays mildly damp you still have good oxygenation at the roots.

DwayneWayne · Feb 9, 2020

curious2garden said:
Coco is merely a different type of hydro. It's closer to running NFT rails or dwc than soil you can not overwater in either of those. Coco is an inert substrate that holds very little moisture. What is held is based mostly on water tension. So the finer coco you run, say pith, the more water it can hold but it doesn't hold much. So while it stays mildly damp you still have good oxygenation at the roots.

So if I go from my aero cloner to coco pots, say smart pots, and just hand water and feed them they will continue to grow water roots unlike soil?

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