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Entire plant is drooping as of this morning when I woke up. Looked normal 12 hrs before this. Two plants out of six are both drooping all
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Rtaym22224
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Moisture meter shows the two plants that are dropping as being very wet. I have a really decent breeze going over the plants lights are providing 500 par to plants all about a month old and 12” tall.
Do I need to transplant out of the wet soil? Do I just let it dry? I loosened the top 4” of soil with my hands to aerate it. I’m using grow bags not pots
Do I need to transplant out of the wet soil? Do I just let it dry? I loosened the top 4” of soil with my hands to aerate it. I’m using grow bags not pots
Rtaym22224
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How do I treat this? Do I need to re transplant into dryer soil? Or keep a strong fan on the plants and bring par and temps up, and just till the soil top 4-6” with my hands so it’s not packed or wet
Three Berries
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I wouldn't transplant. The roots are already compromised. Dryer location?
Rtaym22224
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I removed some moist dirt on the top 3” of each plant. I pushed the sides of the grow bags in gently and pushed up from the bottom to try and loosen moist dirt. Removed as much wet dirt as possible, it’s not extremely overwatered I’m surprised this is happening.
I loosened all the packed dirt on the top layers of soul and tried to slightly pull at the base of the stem to pull the root system up a little bit from where it was sitting in soil that was too moist
Hope I didn’t fuck things up worse
I also stuck an 8” screwdriver down into the soil all around the plant and the roots but not in a way that damages the existing root sustem
I’m hoping these recover
Temps stable at 76 with lights on, humidity 55%. Lights off low of 67
I loosened all the packed dirt on the top layers of soul and tried to slightly pull at the base of the stem to pull the root system up a little bit from where it was sitting in soil that was too moist
Hope I didn’t fuck things up worse
I also stuck an 8” screwdriver down into the soil all around the plant and the roots but not in a way that damages the existing root sustem
I’m hoping these recover
Temps stable at 76 with lights on, humidity 55%. Lights off low of 67
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Rtaym22224
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First grow in ten years so I don’t care much about these plants just getting everything dialed in again for an indoor soil grow
I have a 760w 4000 piece Samsung led grow light with uv and ir i also bought a controller for it to auto dim at certai temps stuff like that
8” inline exhaust with carbon filter
8” inline intake from a lung room with an evaporative humidifier and my co2.
By dimming the lights I’m still getting the PAR I need and I’m able to keep temps down enough to shut off intake and exhaust so my co2 is much more effective
My fans are both ac infinity and run off theIt controller 69.
Had no other choice but a grow tent. Bought a gorilla tent 4x4x8.5
Ph testing water and nutrients as well as ec tds.
I have a 760w 4000 piece Samsung led grow light with uv and ir i also bought a controller for it to auto dim at certai temps stuff like that
8” inline exhaust with carbon filter
8” inline intake from a lung room with an evaporative humidifier and my co2.
By dimming the lights I’m still getting the PAR I need and I’m able to keep temps down enough to shut off intake and exhaust so my co2 is much more effective
My fans are both ac infinity and run off theIt controller 69.
Had no other choice but a grow tent. Bought a gorilla tent 4x4x8.5
Ph testing water and nutrients as well as ec tds.
The plants in the photo above have root rot from being too wet. 
Not sure why are using so much perlite on top. IF you have soil under the perlite the perlite is blocking the water from leaving the container. I would remove it to expose the root flare and have better soil-to-air transpiration exchange. You don't need a mulch indoors unless you had to water your plants more than once a day.
Douglas.Curtis
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8" in a 4x4 Is some serious ventilation.
Droopy comes from a few things and they all look similar.
Lack of water (obviously not the issue here)
Too much water (lack of oxygen)
Damaged roots
Combination of these
Let it dry out. Go from there.
Droopy comes from a few things and they all look similar.
Lack of water (obviously not the issue here)
Too much water (lack of oxygen)
Damaged roots
Combination of these
Let it dry out. Go from there.
Rtaym22224
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Should any of these be disposed of now?
Rtaym22224
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I pulled the worst dropping plant out of its container and then retranspplanted. The roots were not soggy or rotting .
Rtaym22224
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Could this be from light too intense ?
Douglas.Curtis
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Lack of oxygen or lack of water, also when roots are too damaged to transport. The roots should look off white to bright white. Any discoloration which is not a dye used in bottled nutrients is an indication of root rot.
What did the roots look like?
What did the roots look like?
Rtaym22224
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The roots were not compacted in wet soil much . Most of my roots were white some had a very slight tinge of brown I cut those off
Should I mist and foliar feed because my roots aren’t up taking ?
Should I mist and foliar feed because my roots aren’t up taking ?
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Rtaym22224
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Leaves feel very Dry
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And I covered the topsoil with perlite after that overwatering to try and keep away fungus gnats etc that may like rotting soil.
Maybe this was coujterproduive as it helps retain moisture I removed all the perlite
Maybe this was coujterproduive as it helps retain moisture I removed all the perlite
Rtaym22224
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I’ll give these plants another 36 hours if they don’t show signs of improvement im throwing a the grow out and starting over: noob still here but I do a lot of reading on this forum and I love cervantes book. Oddly I’ve always been easily very successful growing outdoors in soil. My indoor grows still need a lot of perfection
Should I as a novice do multiple multiple transplants into slightly bigher pots each time to prevent overwatering
Should I as a novice do multiple multiple transplants into slightly bigher pots each time to prevent overwatering
Douglas.Curtis
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If they are dry then wet them. Sounds like the roots were mostly OK which is good. Indoor is a lot easier with good soils, did I miss where you mention the kind you are using?
