What's wrong with my plants?

Polarized

Member
So, the leaves seem very droopy. Like all of them are standing at attention. Its weird! I've seem them do it before but never like this. Pics included.

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Please help as soon as possible! I don't want these babies to die!
 

bostoner

Active Member
Just looks like they are the example picture in a book for under watering. Either that or your roots aren't taking in any water for some reason. Tho, I can't think of anything else it would be. They look pretty good besides the super droop. Try watering more or watering once more an hour after watering to replace the water that the plants will guzzle down immediately. You don't want to water everyday or even every other day. If they need water so often its usually because the pot is too small, its really hot, or the soil is sandy and doesn't hold water well. I don't see any heat stress and soil appears right though.
 

shagalicious

Active Member
water when the plants need it not when your schedule says so

thos 1 gallon pots in 80 degree temps with a fan and a hps beating on them.....

feel your pot when it's all droopy (empty)
water to runnoff
feel pot now
when it feels about 1/2 -2/3 gone, water again
sounds like you're gonna need about every 12-16 hours
 

Grown n Oregon

Active Member
ya man, those little ladies need some h2o...pronto! that droop that they got going on is a tell tell that they are thirsty and have been thirsty for a little while. they will perk right back up within a cpl hours of getting a drink...gaurenteed
 

dimebong

Well-Known Member
Soil looks dry. Watering everyday you say? My soil is still a dark color a day after watering
 

secro

Active Member
your soil may have become aqua-phobic, even though you are watering the waterering regularly like you say, the water may not being kept in the soil properly, try some dish soap in your water to thin it, this will re-wet your soil ....... if thats ya problem anyways ...

if you do need to re-wet use potassium based soap, it breaks down into ..... ta da ... potassium :joint:
 

Lululady

Member
Some of my plants, not marijuana, almost repel water initially. The water runs down around the outside of the rootball and runs out without soaking in. Often this happens when the soil has pulled away from the edges of the pot. I find I need to water those plants several times over a 10-15 minute period to get the soil to hold onto the water and drench the entire root ball. You can catch the runoff and reuse it so you don't waste nutes. Within an hour of watering, you should see your plants recover if they've gotten the water they need. The leaves will perk right back up. If they haven't, either it isn't water that's the problem or the roots didn't get the water they needed..... or you were too late. But the plants above look like they'll be fine. Based on my experience with plants in general only, not specifically this plant.
 

UncleBuck

Well-Known Member
water them a shit ton. walk away. water again 20 minutes later. walk away. water again after an hour.

that soil is way too light brown for this to be anything but a water problem, and when the soil gets that dry, you need several successive waterings to make it absorbent and spongy again.
 

greenlikemoney

Well-Known Member
YEP to all the underwatering posts....BTW, the situation that LULU speaks of is exactly why "checking your runoff pH" can cause some people more problems than it solves. If the water is not leaching through the soil then the runoff pH tells you nothing basically.

Water slowly, don't just dump a half gallon on them all at once and think you have watered properly.
 
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