Twisted droopy leaves with curled up tips. Heat stress?

smoothness

Active Member
Guys I need help! Everything was fine and dandy. Then I couldn't water the plants for one day well not even a day. Like half the day. And when I got home my room was unbelievable hot. I noticed my healthiest plant showed signs of heat stress. Curled up leaf tips. Some leaves we're curled up and twisted looked burnt. Lots of browning and yellowing. This is in a matters of a few hrs. Cause before I left the house this plant was a beast and healthy as hell. Now I flushed it. Rewatered it even check the roots. I watered and left overnight woke up a few hrs later and it was still droopy and worse than before. I had already raised the lights and lowered the temps. A few of the thick leaf plants start to droop as well so can anyone help?

Plants are growing in 16oz solo cups. Hempy style 100 percent perlite under 4 t5 6500k 4ft bulbs. Feed root excelurator great white mycorrihizae molasses Dynagro grow. 32 days from seed. Ph 5.5-6.0. Temps usually around 81 F. Please this plant looks like she's bout to die on me. Like I'm a matter of 5-6 hrs it looks like a weeks worth of damage
 

spl1

Well-Known Member
Well running in 16oz solo cups with room temps above 74F is what the real problem is, there is not enough protection for the roots at room temps of 81F in solo cups if you are hand watering them.
 

smoothness

Active Member
Yeh they are at half strength for the longest. Plus this plant is a champ. Never had nute burn before
 

haole420

Active Member
heat was the cause, but the symptom is plant dryness.

flush with plain water that's been pH'd to 5.0-5.2, lower light wattage, lower room temp, increase relative humidity, reduce circulation/exhaust fan speed, maybe even foliar feed plain water. bring everything back up to where you had it after the plants looks to be recovered, at least 3 days.

lower ph water is essential because dried out media is going to contain a lot of salts that precipitated out of the nutes. this not only raises soil pH, it might encrust roots and choke them. lower pH will dissolve them back into solution more easily and bring you back to normal pH. if your runoff pH is higher than you want it, maybe even soak the entire pot in low pH'd water for about 30 mintues, then flush again.

if it recovers, the leaves won't change shape. they'll stay curled, but any new growth at the base of those leaves will appear to grow straight.

i wouldn't transplant.

good luck!
 

smoothness

Active Member
i moved the babies to their new growroom. raised the lgiht about a foot. transplanted one of the babies and blasted the ac. i also flushed the main beast turned gimp with ph 4.8 water. hope thats not too low cause i was tired from building the room all day. one is in a 7 gallon bucket and the rest are still in solo cups. i have the lamps bought soon but wont transplant the others til later. thanks for the help so far hope they are gonna get better
 
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