Drooping Leaves?

Firsttimer87

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I went up to check my plants today, as I do everyday, and when I opened the door to my grow rooms (which you can see in the pics), I quickly notcied that two of my plants' leaves were pretty droopy. They were not discolored, just droopy...

Ive had a recent problem with yellowing leaves that had mostly stopped since i'd added epsom salt a few days ago and pruned the yellow leaves... you can see these yellowing leaves in the pic.... Could they be related?

I wanted to put up a pic but i have no batteries for my camera, but im gonna try to get some tommarow....

Thanks everyone
 

Nemsist221

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I went up to check my plants today, as I do everyday, and when I opened the door to my grow rooms (which you can see in the pics), I quickly notcied that two of my plants' leaves were pretty droopy. They were not discolored, just droopy...

Ive had a recent problem with yellowing leaves that had mostly stopped since i'd added epsom salt a few days ago and pruned the yellow leaves... you can see these yellowing leaves in the pic.... Could they be related?

I wanted to put up a pic but i have no batteries for my camera, but im gonna try to get some tommarow....

Thanks everyone
i think your overwatering you plants, try to goa day or two without watering
 

crickitmd

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i let the soil get dry before i water. i had an outside plant and almost killed it by watering every night. it was hella yellow too.
 

Vote 2 Legalize Marijuana

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I don't grow in soil anymore, but I do have to agree that over watering seems to be the cause. Been years since I used soil and from what I remember with soil is this: Soil stays wet for days and over watering can cause root rot! Let dry for a day or two, and by the end of the week it should make a come back. Might also check to see if your over doing the nutes. Just a thought!

Good luck!
 

bsm1988

Member
hey i just induced flowering and went to 12/12 hps from 18/6 cfl . can constant leaf movement from fan cause them to droop? or are they just drooping because of the change in cycle
 

smokeemup

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:leaf:i found mine done that when i used cfl for vege and changed to hps for bud but didnt do when i grow with hps the hole way through might be just change of spectrum:leaf:
 

H.R. Shove N Stuff

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:leaf:i found mine done that when i used cfl for vege and changed to hps for bud but didnt do when i grow with hps the hole way through might be just change of spectrum:leaf:
I'am having the same problem also. My plants are beautiful. Nice deep green, huge leaves... just starting to droop.

The only thing recently I changed is going from a MH light 4 weeks veg and 5 weeks flowering, then switched to HPS light for the rest of flowering.... that's when they started to droop.
 

2footbuds

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same problem here. my plants are not over watered and i havnt switched lights at all. also the leaves feel papery, and aredrooping at a 90 degree angle. i think its a nute deficiency. someone help.
 

denny beezwax

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Papery leaves and drooping have hit me a lot when switching to 12/12. My non-scientific mind says it's mostly plant stress that the leaves bounce back from. That's why it might be a good idea -- with some strains -- to wait for a while (a week or so) after you switch to 12/12 light to switch your plants nutes to the flowering ratios. No need to add another new thing to an already stressed-out plant.
 

goblyn

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Up to this point, I have been vegging under T5's. Today I installed a MH conversion for the table next to them. Right after that thing came on, a couple of my plants started getting droopy, wavy leaves. I haven't watered them in a couple of days and the change was immediate, so I figure it is just a little bit of stress from being under 20k lumens and now having another 36k lumens added to the room. Hopefully by tomorrow they are back to form. I plan to start them on more aggressive nutes tomorrow, but may hold off if they are still droopy.
 

goblyn

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Hmmm. Things looked better this morning, so I went ahead and did my weekly feeding. By mid afternoon, more plants were drooping bad. There is no yellowing and leaves look healthy, just drooping. I only water twice a week (or 3 at most) and don't water until the top layer of soil is pretty crispy. Also, temp is at a constant 75F and humidity is between 35% and 41% depending on the time of day. The new MH is around 30" above the plants and doesn't feel hot on the canopy, but goddamn it is bright.

So I turned off the new 400w MH and left them under the T5's only to see if they rebound. All of this started when I installed that MH 36 hours ago. :|
 

cary schellie

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get a 3 way meter for 10 bucks from hydro farms. check the ground moisture. iove have the same problem over and underwatering. both makes the leaves droopy. untill i got the meter i tried correcting but usually made it worse by being wrong.
 

goblyn

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I will do that. thanks!

I checked on them this evening and the droopy leaves seems to have gone for the most part and plants look normal again. A friend of mine told me some of his do this after feeding too and then are back to normal 12-24 hours later. I think some of my plants just freaked about their first full strength nute feeding.
 

Magic Goba

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Okay so I have a question about this same situation. I haven't watered my plants for about 5 or 6 days and I don't water them unless the plant shows signs of thirst. It's about 90 here and I put my plants from inside to my back yard for some good old fashion sunlight. Only a plant or two is actually doing this but I'm worried because they JUST started to boom, they went from dinky looking failures to beats. So, could it be that I need to transplant or somehow cool the room temperature? Also, I have heard that stems that are red is a sign of bad absorption due to nutes. Yes, I was an idiot and fed them a super low dose before they were old enough but the ones that have red stems are the biggest and smelliest ones of them all so... could I just have nice red stem plants?
They are silver haze planted in half gallon pots. Vegging under CFLs by night and sunlight by day. I'll post pics here in a few minutes... just gotta find the cam :-/
 
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