Help me... what is wrong with my plant?

[instink]

I have been flowering for about a week.... and almost that entire time my plant has been hell droopy.... look at these pics

 

First day of flower:

 

 

Today:

 

 

I recently had to change my watering schedule to every 2 days instead of every 3 cause she seemed to be drying out much quicker. Also she has been under a bit of stress - after flowering for a few days I accidently left my light timer on alwayus on for 2 days. She's now had two full sets of 12 hour darkness so hopefully back well into flower... could that kind of light stress cause the plant to look so droopy? today I gave her a massive flush, then a feed with some nutes and h2o2, about 10 hours before the photo was taken

 

Any ideas? I'm going crazy here cause she has always looked so healthy and now this thanks guys. Other than the droopyness she looks so healthy... green and little buds forming... shes perfect, except wilting :o

Edited May 3, 2005 by instink

[WantDaChronic]

my plants did the same fucking thing like 2 days ago :thumbdown

 

with my old crop, when the leaves went droopy, i would water with superthrive but after nearly killing my crop because of excess superthrive, im scared to use it these days

 

the droopyness can be caused by lots of different things such as over and under watering, too low or too high nute strength, diseases, stress, etc....from what i have learned from my plants drooping this time around is that its usually a combination of smaller things that make it seem like a big problem...like i have over watered a couple of times and as such the plants have gone droopy and have stressed out over it...

 

as for your plants, how often are u checking the ec and ph of the water your giving the plants? im assuming your ok in that area which brings me to nute strength...how much are u feeding them and how often?

 

if i was to take a wild guess, i would say that your ph and all that is spot on and your nutes are at full strength being fed on a weekly basis which would make this alot harder :thumbdown what i would do i buy some superthrive, and only give the plants 1 drop in the nute mix otherwise you could over do it and have plants like my lasdt crop and no1 wants that superthrive perks plants up like crazy, but its as stable as nitro in the sense that if u over do it, you can kiss your plants goodbye :thumbdown and its extremely easy to over do it....and if u do use it, no more than once a fortnight at 1 drop per plant otherwise u could over dose the ladies :thumbdown

[WantDaChronic]

damn message sent twice Edited May 3, 2005 by wantdachronic

[instink]

Thanks for the advice... When i water them next, I'll add some nutriboost (apparently very similar to superthrive). I have been checking ph and ec with every water, keeping it at about 6.3ph and 1.6ec, with clean water every 2 or 3 waters.... I'll try the nutriboost, I have the little bottle there and I didn't even think to use it

[F420]

Drop the Ph to around 5.8, 6.3 is a bit to high, especially in flower.

Nutriboost is actually better than Superthrive but very similar. Superthrive contains a glue that makes it stick to soil.

[instink]

Hmm ok... you sure about 5.8? It is soil remember...

[F420]

doh, stupid me.

No sorry you want to aim for 6.5 In soil.

5.8 Is hydro,

 

So ph is perfect, EC is ok, hmm are the roots all looking ok?? not going brown?

 

Ferengi shuts up and goes back to sleep. ::

[instink]

phew just as well i checked

 

I can't see the roots... soil and all... stonedas just reckons I ran her too dry a few days ago and she's still recovering, and to just give her another day or 2

[Guest Eikel]

Hey Instink,

 

If you let your plant dry to the point where it wilts (my diagnosis based on the pic), the first watering after this should just be plain old ph-adjusted water. I've found that plants can burn quite badly if you give them normal dosages of nutes after letting the medium dry out too much.

 

Just my 2c!

[WantDaChronic]

another problem i have noticed with letting any soil/coco type medium go too dry is that the water takes a year and a half to sink down unless it runs down the sides of the pots and comes out the bottom :thumbdown

 

an easy solution is to get a misting spray bottle and mist the medium before you water....makes it sink straight in

 

dunno why that message came up twice