My girl has the droop

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To make a simple summary of your issue, the plant was happy and fine outside of the tent, then you put it into the tent and we now have 'the wilts' and what appears to be some 'shock' to the plant. Here is one of the issues with autoflowers, and also why some photoperiod growers don't like them, if you shock them at any stage, they just might check out and be done (so to speak). the plant had nice growth and was happy even in the colder temps but now something happened, as you have changed many things, you changed the temps (which the ranges you listed are certainly acceptable) you changed the airflow the plant was used to, you changed the humidity the plant was used to and you changed the light. Also chances are co2 levels are different in the tent, all these things probably caused her to go into shock, as they are significant changes. Normally if it 'the wilt' was simply and only caused by a watering issue you should see some fast response from the plant when you correct your water cycle and get back track. I will say that as a plant grows, matures and enters flower and then hits full bloom, its water requirements will change and then in this case changing its temps and humidity (from what is was used to) will also change its water requirements. There is a product I love that not only helps in situations such as this it can also help prevent it, it is Optic Foliar Overgrow. This is a ready to use foliar spray that helps feed the plant and it causes the leaves to spring to life and pray towards the lights.

Now, your plant is obviously going through a adjustment period to its new environment. In past grows I have had both success and failure in doing something similar to what you have done. I have put plants hitting pre-flower into a tent and they have taken off and gave me a great harvest, I have also had some plants just absolutely stop, shutdown and eventually check out, and I have seen this behavior with the same strain. Some of these girls do not want changes from what they have been accustomed to during the 1st month of life. The best thing for Autos is to keep them in the same environment for all stages of their lives, which is not to say changes can't be made and people haven't had success doing similar to what you did but just a general principle with Autoflowers.

Worst case scenario this plant has stopped, it was possibly going through some hormone changes as she is maturing and entering different phases of her life cycle and won't grow any more and eventually die. (I have had this happen to me)

Best case scenario she responds and becomes even stronger and rewards you with a full harvest. Time will tell and I wish you the best, you obviously know how to grow, but you did piss off your lady.
 
The plant has made it to half droop now I would say. The smaller leaves are kind of picking up but the larger ones not so much yet. Seems to be a lot of wisdom and experience in that post @LittleMT . And I have to agree, I firmly believe that it's not a simple over/under water issue.

@Eyes on Fire , @RamboGarden I see you guys have tons of experience and I know somehow you guys must be right about the amount of water. But it baffles me how I can be so far off what you are saying. But it definitely sucks sometimes not being able to get as many feedings in per week as I should, I don't have any plants coming due for watering now for a few days. But I will definitely take your advice and add water a lot slower and see if that gets me to run off with less.

thanks again everyone in this thread for the feedback, it's much appreciated.
 
Just an update, I believe I have finally come to the "root cause" of this issue. VPD ! it's real. My RH inside the tent was hanging around 25% RH with temps ranging from 72-75. This poor girl has been so sickly looking. I drop a humidifier in the tent and life is happening again with this plant. Hopefully she recovers fully and puts on a good showing still with bud.

The other problem that was brought up in this post I have still not fully addressed. I did some testing with my seedlings in a solo cup with most of the sides cut out so I can see. It takes 40% of a solo cup of water slowly added over 15 mins to achieve run off. Seems fairly consistent with the amount of water I am using in my 3g pots. So is the fix perlite ?

I am using Sunshine Mix#4 with the blue label . It appears to be a mix of about 35-40% perlite and the rest peat. Will adding more perlite to my soil solve my water issues in the future? If so how much should I add ?

I notice the Yellow label SS mix#4 has 30% perlite and 20% coco. Sadly I can not find that locally.

Thanks.
 
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