Hi guys,
-Problem:
So, over the past week or so, I've noticed some strange behaviour that I've not seen before with my plant. The plant, after watering, seems to droop heavily for 12+ hours, before coming back to life at lights on, as you'd expect at typical lights on. 12+ hours of drooping, in my experience, seems a bit excessive after a watering. I water her midday (relative to her schedule).
-Medium/grow method:
Soil: 70% BioBizz Light Mix and 30% perlite.
-Feed and supplements used:
BioBizz range (only including what I've used so far - no bloom nutes yet):
- BioBizz grow: Fed at 1/8th strength twice a week (1 litre of water per feed).
- BioBizz Alg-A-Mic: 1ml per litre: The issue started after the first time I including this in my nute solution.
- BioBizz CalMag - 0.2ml per litre every watering.
One imporant point to note is that I have given this plant barely any nutrients at all, she just doesn't seem to be asking for them.
Plant is on a wet dry cycle and I weigh the pot, so I know when she is really dry (1.7kg is a dry pot for me) - she gets either 1l or 1.5l when the pot hits this weight. I have not had any issues up until this week with giving this amount of water to her.
-Water source:
Tap water with PH of 7.2 (not dechlorinated). Extremely soft water (50 ppm, but not using synthetics so salt build up is not an issue). Water is not PHed as I am running in a good soil. Runoff PH is about 6.5, which is spot on.
-Strain and age
Fast Buds Cream Cookies
~35 days since sprout.
-Climate:
It has been pretty hot this week, but running in a cabinet that holds between around 25c and 28c with 50-60% RH (lowered from 70-75% due to starting to flower).
- Light used:
1x MarsHydro TS1000 between 20-24" on 75% power.
20/4 schedule
-Additional info:
Plant has been showing this symptom for the past two waterings, and it's only after watering that this happens. Naturally, you'd opt for overwatering here, but I weight my pots and I know when she needs a drink. My gut feeling is soil compaction, due to pouring water in from a measuring jug, perhaps too fast, but I thought the perlite would mitigate that issue. I get a good amount of runoff though, so I could be talking rubbish!
This issue seems more prominent on the newer growth.
--Pictures
This picture is taken around 9 hours after the watering.
Here is what she looked like after bouncing back after this first time it happened earlier this week... absolutely fine it seems minus some tacoing due to the heat. Very confused
-Problem:
So, over the past week or so, I've noticed some strange behaviour that I've not seen before with my plant. The plant, after watering, seems to droop heavily for 12+ hours, before coming back to life at lights on, as you'd expect at typical lights on. 12+ hours of drooping, in my experience, seems a bit excessive after a watering. I water her midday (relative to her schedule).
-Medium/grow method:
Soil: 70% BioBizz Light Mix and 30% perlite.
-Feed and supplements used:
BioBizz range (only including what I've used so far - no bloom nutes yet):
- BioBizz grow: Fed at 1/8th strength twice a week (1 litre of water per feed).
- BioBizz Alg-A-Mic: 1ml per litre: The issue started after the first time I including this in my nute solution.
- BioBizz CalMag - 0.2ml per litre every watering.
One imporant point to note is that I have given this plant barely any nutrients at all, she just doesn't seem to be asking for them.
Plant is on a wet dry cycle and I weigh the pot, so I know when she is really dry (1.7kg is a dry pot for me) - she gets either 1l or 1.5l when the pot hits this weight. I have not had any issues up until this week with giving this amount of water to her.
-Water source:
Tap water with PH of 7.2 (not dechlorinated). Extremely soft water (50 ppm, but not using synthetics so salt build up is not an issue). Water is not PHed as I am running in a good soil. Runoff PH is about 6.5, which is spot on.
-Strain and age
Fast Buds Cream Cookies
~35 days since sprout.
-Climate:
It has been pretty hot this week, but running in a cabinet that holds between around 25c and 28c with 50-60% RH (lowered from 70-75% due to starting to flower).
- Light used:
1x MarsHydro TS1000 between 20-24" on 75% power.
20/4 schedule
-Additional info:
Plant has been showing this symptom for the past two waterings, and it's only after watering that this happens. Naturally, you'd opt for overwatering here, but I weight my pots and I know when she needs a drink. My gut feeling is soil compaction, due to pouring water in from a measuring jug, perhaps too fast, but I thought the perlite would mitigate that issue. I get a good amount of runoff though, so I could be talking rubbish!
This issue seems more prominent on the newer growth.
--Pictures
This picture is taken around 9 hours after the watering.
Here is what she looked like after bouncing back after this first time it happened earlier this week... absolutely fine it seems minus some tacoing due to the heat. Very confused
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