Over watered??? Top leaves flopping over

[napalisherpa]

Hey guys. So everything is going great in the garden this year, I'm just having trouble with two plants looking overwatered. Their both blue dreams in 400 gallon mounds. They get as much water as the rest of the garden, but their very top leaves fold over. The stem of the leaves are stiff, like their full of water. I'm watering about 15 - 20 gallons every two days through drippers. Most of the branches on the plant look great, it just a few top leaves that droop. I've dried the plants all the way out before watering, but it does not seem to help. The color looks great, and they don't seem to be growing any slower. Any ideas?

Here are the droopy leaves

Heres a lower branch of the plant. The picture was taken at the same time. Lower branch looks nice and perky

 

[Bulldog420]

Could it be underwatering? Take a soil probe, or a piece of 3/4 pipe of some sort and drill out a soil sample. If the sample is wet all the way through, then your over watering. If most of the mound is dry, then under watering. Once you establish that, you can move on to other factors. Good luck.

 

[vapor]

my timewarps do this when they get too hot....of course check your watering/ rootzone first

 

[napalisherpa]

I do have a soil probe I've been using. The sample from the two droopy plants looks the same as other pots, definitely not soggy at the bottom. The mounds also have good drainage.
The heat causing the droop seems likely. Anyone else experience this?

 

[mapinguari]

I don't know for sure what it is.

I wouldn't expect that much droop on a well-watered plant just from high heat, though (even 100 degrees).

Nor would I expect the stiff, bent stem. That's something my plants often do in the beginning of the year when it's cold and they are unhappy.

Obviously that's not what's happening here.

Instinct tells me root issues, especially when you see pinched tops in the middle and the side branches growing well. I had a blue dream cross do this a couple years ago. It finished fine, but with some diminished yield in the top middle of the plant.

 

[vapor]

I do have a soil probe I've been using. The sample from the two droopy plants looks the same as other pots, definitely not soggy at the bottom. The mounds also have good drainage.
The heat causing the droop seems likely. Anyone else experience this?

My haze clone will handle high heat like a champ but my timewarp when it gets over a certain temp bam droopy leaves, it is one of the only plants that does it for me and i have many clone strains. of course make sure your watering and rootzone are good first. lots of folks grow blue dream so you should find a answer, what is your temp outside?

ps my timewarp does it inside as well when i get my thousand watter's in a 3x3 foot space and put a timewarp in the middle of the room it droops, when i move it to the side of the room, were the radiant heat levels are lower{farther from the lights} the leaves come back up. Always make sure you check your rootzone and watering first....