Praying leaves

bam0813 said:

Exactly my take only to add I’ve never had an unhealthy plant pray that I can say I remember

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I am about 30 minutes after lights on and I am pretty sure if I go in there now they will be praying. I am super pleased with how my plants are growing.

Excellent yes I noticed it’s a morning or lights on thing. Outside I could literally watch it occur over a coffee and toke

Nixs said:

Could it be trying to expose the most leaf surface to the light?

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If anything, a vertical leaf will be exposing less surface area to the light.

I've always associated praying with a happy plant

Seems the praying stops after buds have started forming,just looking at some of my old pics.No praying at week 4 ish but lots at week 2.

Maybe it's a natural defense mechanism. The leaves perk up, preparing for heavy rain water droplets to hit them.

myke said:

Seems the praying stops after buds have started forming,just looking at some of my old pics.No praying at week 4 ish but lots at week 2.

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I believe once the calyxes start stacking, they keep the leaves from being able to rise up.

Billy the Mountain said:

If anything, a vertical leaf will be exposing less surface area to the light.

I've always associated praying with a happy plant

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Its more like a V than vertical, I think leaves are trying to reach the light, they want more probably.

i can not find it anymore but there are studies saying its a defense mechanism vs. light.
they try to collect less photons this way and let more to the lower less saturated leaves.

plants have not many ways to signalize things, so prob the praying have several meanings.

based on my personal observations.
a plant blasted with too much light in veg over a too long period is showing droppy leaves.
basically one can see when the plant start to drop at the end of the day, if its long before the end of the day its maybe a tad too much.
if shes droppy allday, its too much since longer and action should be taken.

in flower things are changing, too much light dont provoke anymore this droppy leaves.
in contrary, maybe shes praying too much if given too much light (see above).

i left once my 730nm far red on the whole night by accident.
if you want to see heavy unatural praying try it, give just 730nm.
should have taken pictures it was funny to watch, am sure its easy to reproduce.

It only happens with religious weed, all my plants are atheist so they don't bother.

Hairybuds said:

I bet leaf temp has something to do with it as well

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This.
Put fan on more speed --> lowered temps and more airflow thru plants --> leafs perked up in flower. Now also hitting green numbers in VPD chart. With more temperature leaves seem to be more chill, and not perked up.

Also wondering if its a good thing or too cold. But plants look so nice, cant be very bad.

I gotta clone that skipped praying and pulled an erection instead. The Viagra foilar spray really perked things up. I may have to call a doctor......it's had a stiffy all week.

youre growing males?

An observation...

Tonight, when I went it my tent, the plants closest to the heater were praying more than the ones furthest away from it.

cobshopgrow said:

youre growing males?

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A budding porn star in the making

There has to be a definitive, scientific answer for what causes leaves to pray.

Hairybuds said:

A budding porn star in the making

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He said budding.... lol

i could not find the study anymore.
its not science, just grow weed easy but could imagine its based on the study.
i think whats described is only true when our plants are in flower and there are more factors influecing it, like mentioned VPD, stimulants etc.

i think little praying is a good sign, if it goes over certain angle its unatural for me.
the 730nm as only light source at night was a eye opener, leaves poinitng up like crazy while the plant should have slept.

cobshopgrow said:

i could not find the study anymore.
its not science, just grow weed easy but could imagine its based on the study.

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i think whats described is only true when our plants are in flower and there are more factors influecing it, like mentioned VPD, stimulants etc.

i think little praying is a good sign, if it goes over certain angle its unatural for me.
the 730nm as only light source at night was a eye opener, leaves poinitng up like crazy while the plant should have slept.

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A very good take on it, IMHO.

My plants are an good shade of green, not too dark and not too light. The growth rate is good, I go in my tent once a day and they look more developed each time.

cobshopgrow said:

youre growing males?

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This is a rare case of aroused clitoral tissue.......the Viagra, when consumed by females can really get things rolling !

It's usually the super stout ones that pray the most. Like not only the leaves but all the branches just want to shoot straight up and are hard to lst. In my experience it's a good trait as long as the leaves aren't tacoing or showing stress.