My plant is drooping!

[greenleaf]

yesterday i opened my cupboard to find that my plant was starting to lean and sag a little bit, and this morning when i looked at it, it was completely fallen over, the stem had not broken, it was as if it had fallen asleep, just lying down. The plant seems to be fine, doesnt look sick, just cant keep itself up. Its under fluros, i use osmocote, its about a month or so into flowering, i gave it a nice watering yesterday. Any ideas?

 

P.S. i had this problem before, only alot milder, just a slight sag, which i fixed with a stake and a shoelace, i could fix this with a stake, but im worried about damaging the roots by plunging stakes into the pot. and i would also need a good 2 ft stake (my plant is 3ft approx)

 

any help or advice would be great

[States Zone]

usually lack of water would cause a plant to colapse like you described but being 3 feet tall and if the stem/stalk of the plant isnt strong enough to hold its own weight I suppose that would cause it to. why dont you tie or strap a stake the the outside of the pot and then tie it loosly at the top of the stake? then no worries about damaging the root system or any other possible problems you could run into but check ph and water levels first to save yourself some time....... just my 2 cents

[Skunkxxx]

Poor lighting..Too many nutes.

[jon chempo]

You do have a fan blowing on them right .. But ya could be a shortage of available light .. plants might be stretching

[Nath]

Poor lighting..Too many nutes.

My plants are growing under 2x 48w cf's and there are seven of them at the moment, one wasnt doing too well, compared to the rest, so I chucked it out the back. I only really want to end up with 4 nice plants, but they are all taking off, three of them are booming. (with the current lighting taking into mind.) I hand water them, as I have a temporary grow room at the moment, and am going to build a proper growroom for them this week (Week 3, still tiny caus of fluoro grow)

 

Anyway.. I use DutchFest HydroGrow.. and give them a decent watering everyday. They are in 1.5cm and 7cm rockwool blocks, in Cocopeat. Ill put some perlite in there and larger pots and a recirculating F&D system, when the room is done, anyway..

 

Two or three of my plants are starting to sag a little too..just the larger leaves. You say your growing under fluoros, but what size/wattage are they? I find 2x 48w cf's (each are 240w incandescent equivelant) are not enough for sprouters even. Ill have my HID light this week though, so I'll see what happens.

[Skunkxxx]

Could you not be watering too much? Everyday is alot. As far as my Fluos they are 120v 45w tubes 4ft long.They really work good if you use enogh of them and place them proper.I added 1200watts of MH to my room.

[Luke Skywalker]

Root disease is a possibility, like flopeyes suggested, from overwatering....

 

Osmocote is evil IMO.