Hi guys I am new here and I really am hoping for some advice or input to my current problem, the pics I have attached are of one of my plants which has been drooping now for over a week, the plant is in a 20 litre pot and I have used a tomato grow bag type soil mixed with pearlite, at first I thought I had overwatered so I let the pot dry out for around 5 days until the pot was lighter, I then fed yesterday with 1.5 litres of feed at 1.6 EC but still today she is looking sad, the plant is around 7 weeks old and I need to try and revive her, I do hope that there is a solution and I would be grateful for any contributions, I am using 600watt HPS flowering bulbs and the temperature is between 70/75F I thank you in advance for your contributions or advice.
Please help guys pics attached problem with a couple of plants!!!
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Thanks Namvet I will have a look again, do you think just phd water minus the nutes?
Hi Bisto - are you checking your PH before watering?
I would have thought 1.5 litres of watering the day before the pictures would keep a plant that size happy. But if it's not drinking up could also be a PH problem.
In soil, keeping a soil ph range of 6.2-6.5 would be good. If the leaves are yellowing (difficult to see from the HPS photos) it would possibly be Nitrogen deficiency caused by ph lockout.
There are varying methods of testing your soil ph - here's one i found online
(Although he doesn't say in the video - i'm presuming that he watered at 6.3-6.5ph)
Hope this helps
Blue
I would have thought 1.5 litres of watering the day before the pictures would keep a plant that size happy. But if it's not drinking up could also be a PH problem.
In soil, keeping a soil ph range of 6.2-6.5 would be good. If the leaves are yellowing (difficult to see from the HPS photos) it would possibly be Nitrogen deficiency caused by ph lockout.
There are varying methods of testing your soil ph - here's one i found online
(Although he doesn't say in the video - i'm presuming that he watered at 6.3-6.5ph)
Hope this helps
Blue
Thankyou Blue for your kind reply, I do keep my PH at 6.5 the leaves seem to be okay in colour with the exception of a few right at the bottom of the plant which have shown some yellowing, I will be using Coco in my next grow since I think this all purpose soil ie tomato grow bags was a little too much for the autos??
Hey mate, I also used some high quality, organic tomato soil for my last grow (Northern lights blue) and had exactly the same issue woth drooping leaves. They started drooping after the 5th or 6th week. First i thought that I overwatered the plants, so I let them dry out. Then I watered them but they kept on drooping till the end of the grow, no matter what I did. I thought I had root rot, but it was not. In my case I figured out that the tomato soil just gets too compact with time and the roots get suffocated from a lack of air and bad drainage.
I'm now using biobizz light mix and 15 l air pots. With this combination you never have to worry about overwatering. My plants are loving it and growing like crazy with their leaves soo high up in the air.... it really looks like they are worshiping
the my LED lights
. Trust me mate you just need good soil light soil like biobizz light mix or plagron and some pots with good drainage and you plants will grow as if they are on autopilot and you just sit back and enjoy. KISS is my new method for growing
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good luck mate and look at this grow as a learning experience
Hiya Noob and thank you for your positive input, you have actually confirmed my suspicions, you are bang on right about the soil, it does indeed get compacted and takes more time to dry out too,Hey mate, I also used some high quality, organic tomato soil for my last grow (Northern lights blue) and had exactly the same issue woth drooping leaves. They started drooping after the 5th or 6th week. First i thought that I overwatered the plants, so I let them dry out. Then I watered them but they kept on drooping till the end of the grow, no matter what I did. I thought I had root rot, but it was not. In my case I figured out that the tomato soil just gets too compact with time and the roots get suffocated from a lack of air and bad drainage.
I'm now using biobizz light mix and 15 l air pots. With this combination you never have to worry about overwatering. My plants are loving it and growing like crazy with their leaves soo high up in the air.... it really looks like they are worshiping
the my LED lights
Trust me mate you just need good soil light soil like biobizz light mix or plagron and some pots with good drainage and you plants will grow as if they are on autopilot and you just sit back and enjoy. KISS is my new method for growing
Keep
It
Supper
Simple
good luck mate and look at this grow as a learning experience
I am using coco & perlite on my next one and sure the results will be different 
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Bisto- How did you manage to set up a poll for this? I did see the other thread you opened, so I'm guessing it wasn't intentional...?
... from what I can tell, something damaged the roots, likely rot, if they were overwatered for an extended period of time, though as Nammy mentioned in the other thread, root pests are not ruled out; did the drooping happen suddenly? If so, pest are less likely than other things... Roots will take a while for them to regrow enough to support the top growth again; something like Superthrive can help with this, or some other rooting support supplement,... One thing will help us are pics taken in normal light; HPS messes with colors, and other clues that aid in diagnosing, so reshoot some, including the leaves dying at the bottom,...
... from what I can tell, something damaged the roots, likely rot, if they were overwatered for an extended period of time, though as Nammy mentioned in the other thread, root pests are not ruled out; did the drooping happen suddenly? If so, pest are less likely than other things... Roots will take a while for them to regrow enough to support the top growth again; something like Superthrive can help with this, or some other rooting support supplement,... One thing will help us are pics taken in normal light; HPS messes with colors, and other clues that aid in diagnosing, so reshoot some, including the leaves dying at the bottom,...
Hi Waira, yes you are quite right the poll is unintentional apologies I will get it right next time, I am trying rhizatonic on this plant and fingers crossed it recovers, I was actually contemplating using superthrive instead today, in any event many thanks for your input regards Bisto
