nobody likes a limp leaf

So two days ago the lowest set of leaves on one of my girls went limp, dark green, and looked wet toward the base of the leaf. It has not occurred in others. One leaf died, the other flipped it's middle bit and is still alive.

At the time my light was lower than normal (too low for several hours) and I want to say that was the cause. Regrettably I don't have a picture of the symptoms as they were but any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Nutes, PH, and root temp were all within normal range for my grow

Raise the lights an report back in 48 hours

I raised the light immediately when I saw the horror show and devised a system to mitigate heat a bit better. The upper leaves (4 nodes now) were untouched by the demons so that's curious inregards to light sensitivity... but yes, I will update with pictures later

Kretzlord said:

I raised the light immediately when I saw the horror show and devised a system to mitigate heat a bit better. The upper leaves (4 nodes now) were untouched by the demons so that's curious inregards to light sensitivity... but yes, I will update with pictures later

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It's not strange at all for the plant to pull water reserves from old growth to keep the new growth alive.

Ok, so here is a bit of the aftermath and a shot of the rest of the foliage for reference. The dark green seems to have lightened and I may be able to salvage the remaining part of the flipped one, not sure if I should just clip the other. All odd looking bits are now crispy btw.

All the white specs are sawdust that I need to get out of there

Honestly dont even worry about it. People freak out way too much over tiny little things so dont let this bother you. Dont clip anything off, that's just hurting the plant, if a leaf dies remove it, if it's a little twisted or burned or whatever that's fine leave it.

Imo just raise the light an ignore it for 48 hours. Find some movies to watch or a series on Netflix to binge. I know ta wanna make it the best it can be, but it will do it's best being left alone more than fuxxed with

growingforfun said:

Honestly dont even worry about it. People freak out way too much over tiny little things so dont let this bother you. Dont clip anything off, that's just hurting the plant, if a leaf dies remove it, if it's a little twisted or burned or whatever that's fine leave it.

Imo just raise the light an ignore it for 48 hours. Find some movies to watch or a series on Netflix to binge. I know ta wanna make it the best it can be, but it will do it's best being left alone more than fuxxed with

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This.. period...

I do like to hover lol. And yeah I'll go hands off for a day or two and let the plants do their thing. Thanks for the advice!

Kretzlord said:

I do like to hover lol. And yeah I'll go hands off for a day or two and let the plants do their thing. Thanks for the advice!

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I like only a few plants at a time most runs, this run it's a single plant in a 5x5 tent scrogged out the full area. It's in a 32 gallon trashcan. It only needs water 1 time per 4 days, and that's about how often I check on it. It's doing freaking fantastic.

The plants actually dont like to be touched or messed with that much. Yes they tolerate it just fine an all that.. but imo they do best on their own as much as possible.

Kretzlord said:

I do like to hover lol. And yeah I'll go hands off for a day or two and let the plants do their thing. Thanks for the advice!

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Besides for training for height or whatnot the more hands off you are the better! We literally smother these things with love to the point we kill them or at least hamper them.

I know someone who is a fantastic gardener, beautiful flower beds-well they got a tent and started and have struggled.... Why? They do things to this poor cannabis plant they would never do to a flower out in their flower bed. By trying to make it more complicated than it is, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy- it is hard and difficult. Magazines and such doen't help as you see these always picture perfect girls. Its just like a porno magazine- they know they are going to have a photo shoot so they do all they can for the pic to look good and photo shop does the rest. They are living creatures and aren't ever picture perfect. Just like even a super model gets photoshopped for the magazines... They are beautiful by nature but they get help via technology. So it sets up a false picture of "ideal" in our head... No woman looks like a Playboy centerfold undressed - No real plant looks like it belongs on the cover of High Times...

I've switched to a system of coco, that is auto-watered and can wick water up at any time. She is fed crazy low nute concentration. Jacks Hydro/ Calnite and some epsom salt at 1/4 dose of recommended. I use 1/4 tsp of jacks per gallon and 1/4 tsp of calnite and a sprinkle of epsom, till mid flower when I cut cal nite out or down... I'm not saying "Use my system, use mine, its the only one that works" What I'm saying is I feed mine some very inexpensive nutes at a very low rate but I have healthier, happier, girls than I ever had buying expensive ass nutes, dumping it in at full strength and any other snake oil a hydro store could sell me promising a 15% increase in yield with every bottle.

One day i realized if I add up all the 15% increases I was supposed to get I should be able to pull a pound and a half off an incadencent 60watt light bulb! lol. Once I realized that I boxed em up gave em away and haven't looked back and have suffered no loss in quantity or quality...

Less is more, this plant survived and thrived for eons before the modern indoor grower... Good genetics, basic care, basic nutrition, good light, and a reasonably healthy environment and you are good to go... Spend your energy on that, she will do the rest.

When it comes to this activity we have to think of ourselves as the conductor not the symphony itself...