Drooping leaves

Ok, im new to the site so a wonderful hello to everyone. Hope all is going well for you and your little green families over the holidays. I want to give everyone a little background on the setup, environment and what-not to get the best answer possible.

Currently there is only 1 plant growing. It was clone from a friend and that individual help me setup the plant and the clone was from him. He's been doing this for about 5 years now so i know that the process involving cloning, planting and up until i took over was done correctly.

I built a fully enclosed and sealed 6x6 room off my closet which contains the plant. The plant is under a 1000w HPS high quality light (not anything cheap in this). I use a mixture of GH chems only. The chems being used are bloom, micro and gro. Currently the plant is on a 1 minute drip every six hours. I am using a mixture ratio of 5 mils of gro, 5 mils of micro (hardwater), and 3 mils of bloom PER GALLON. The plant is roughly 2-1/2 weeks in veg. I keep a PH of 6.0 and it is checked every day. 8" duct fan keeps a nice steady flow of air over the plant and the room stays at a constant 69 degrees.

The problem i am facing is a constant drooping of the leaves. Not just a few here and there, but all over. there is no yellowing or any signs of bacteria. I have the plants light shutting off around 2pm and coming back on at 6pm (recommended by the friend). During that shutoff the plant seems to raise its leaves up and looks fine by about 8pm. Overnight however the leaves droop yet again and the end result every morning is an un-supported looking plant. SOMEONE HELP!!!


This is the Setup. Picture just taken when i posted this


This is the plant roughly 3 days ago.



This is the plant as of 5 minutes ago.

Plants naturally droop during the dark period.... it will perk up again once the lights come back on.

Supgee3 said:

Plants naturally droop during the dark period.... it will perk up again once the lights come back on.

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thats what i find funny. Its during the afternoon when the lights go off that it perks back up again.

To give an idea of what i mean check this out...

Lets just say its 12 pm my time right now to start.

My light cycle is setup to go off at 2pm and come back on at 6pm. If its 12 right now and the leaves look droopy, at around 7 or 8 pm the leaves will perk back up approx 1-2 hours after light comes back on. I go to sleep at night and the plant droops back over again but the droop when the light is on. its during the dark period and right after that it perks up, but then droops right back down again with no break in lighting. Its really wierd.

Kinda hard to follow your train of thought....... maybe an over water, or possibly heat issue, your (fishtank) temp guage is reading 80. i wonder how accurate that thing is?

figtree said:

Kinda hard to follow your train of thought....... maybe an over water, or possibly heat issue, your (fishtank) temp guage is reading 80. i wonder how accurate that thing is?

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haha...you're not the only one who says that, my better half feels the same way about every damn idea i have run across. I dont use that temp guage, i have a digital that sits on the backside of the plant to measure true air temp in the place that gets the least amount of airflow. that fishtank guage is sensitive as hell and when i was sitting in front of the plant for just two seconds to take the picture it went up that much. Sorry for the mis-information.