Hey guys. I have an Undercurrent RDWC. There are 8, 13 gallon buckets. I just started flowering them about 5 days ago and never had a problem at all until now. My situation is a little different seeing as to how I have 6 1000 W lights over 8 buckets, meaning my plants are BIG, so doing a res/water change is damn near impossible (cant move around those plants). What I usually do is I wait for my plants to drink up as much as they can (usually almost half) and then I top off and add appropriate nutes. My water temps never go above 69, and the lowest they go are 65. Room temps are 70 at night, 85 during the lighting period. RH is always around 20-30%. PH is always 6.1-6.4. PPMs right now are at a little above 800. Last night right before the lights cut out I topped off with water, added nutes (Dutchmaster flower A&B, silica blast, sweet raw, great white) and they looked fine for the most part. I go down there just now and notice that all the new growth on my plants are drooping a bit. I've done searches on droopy plants and seen other people post up pictures of REALLY droopy plants, but mine aren't THAT bad, just don't want them to get worse. I can take pictures if needed. I've done lots of reading on what causes droopy plants in a DWC and most people say its from plants going into shock because of Calmag deficiency,high PPMs or too high/low PH, but mine always seems stable. Should I be worried? Is this normal? I just don't want them to get worse. I will post pictures later tonight to show you what they look like. Thanks.
Plants drooping RDWC Week 1 of flower
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EDIT: Tried to edit on my original post but for some reason rollitup wont let me use the enter key to tab down? Can someone explain THAT to me?!?!? Anyways, decided to go down and take pictures NOW rather than later so that maybe I have some replies to look forward to when I get back home later tonight. Pictures are kind of bad and blurry because they were taken during the night phase of my grow, but tell me what you guys think all together.
SOMEBEECH
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hydrosoil78
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start flowering soon if you haven't yet. If you can't totally drain the reservoir and flush it, that's probably causing it (hard to tell in photos).
ZOMBIESxWEED
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Did you take these when the lights were off. How do they look 1-2 hours after lights come on? Plants droop when there's no light, so night time, and prop back up during the day. Leaves will generally try to face in the direction of the light source.
Yes, I have started flowering, and I've never ever had to drain and flush out my system before (I've grown in this system over 5 times now).
Yes, I took these when the lights were off, I'm hoping you are right and they perk right back up, because this is actually the first time I've went to go look at them during the night period.
SOMEBEECH, you are a moderator here, so maybe you can explain to me why I am not able to hit the enter key on my keyboard to set the cursor down? Posting replies on here now is becoming a difficult task for me lol. Thanks for the quick replies guys! I'll try to get more pictures up when the lights are on.
switch your browser from IE10 to firefox , there is an issue with ie10 and vbulletin that doesnt allow the enter key to work
ZOMBIESxWEED, turns out you were right my friend, went downstairs today and they perked right back up. I guess after all this growing I've done I never really knew that the leaves drooped a little during the 12 hours off. Appreciate your help my friend.
sunni, you were absolutely right as well my friend. I used another browser, and ofcourse, now I am able to hit enter as I please. One other kind of noob question as far as posting goes though....whenever I quote you guys I use the Wrap Quote Emoji at the top when I post a quick reply, it never really says "Originally posted by..", my question now is...how do you get it to say "Originally posted by.." like that? Thanks again guys!
you hit reply with quote at the bottom of the users post who you want to reply to