Drooping leaves

[homegrower]

Alright I'm growing bag seed, just had to cut out one male of three plants. The two females are in soil, I'm using xnutrients and several cfl's. I'm watering with 6.0 ph tap water. When my lights are on the leaves are nice and perky but when they go out for the night the leaves start to droop a lot. Temperature of the room gets to be about 60 degrees when lights are off. Any suggestions?

 

[WizHigh]

Thats very normal for plants to droop when lights are off. There just relaxing

 

[Buckshot]

Some plants do this more than others but they all do it, first time I saw this I freaked out as I had one plant that drooped (every night) like it had no water for a month! every morning she popped back up like nothing happened!! Keep a fan going at night the RH also spikes at night.

 

[Cultivator]

its normal but could also be indication of too big a temp drop from light to dark period.

 

[homegrower]

I'm going to add a fan and shut off my ventilation. Temps will hit about 85 in the middle of the room

 

[homegrower]

Some leaves are still droopy all the time too. I just watered yesterday and had some good run off o think I may pick up some super thrive in a few days. One plant is in week 4 off flowering and the other is in week 2

 

[WizHigh]

How many times do you water a week?

 

[homegrower]

Once a week, I have 9 gallon pots and water a gallon at a time

 

[WizHigh]

How big are your plants? That maybe the issue. If your plants are only like a week old thats to much soil and water for them. You should start out with a 8oz cup and transplant to a 3L then 5 gallon or your 9 gallon. But if your plant is a month old then its ok for it to be in a 9 gallon pot. But that maybe the cause of all the droopyness

 

[Cultivator]

yeah sounds like over watering to me. superthrive wont help u there.

 

[homegrower]

The one plant I'm worried about is 4 weeks into flowering and is almost 4ft tall.

 

[WizHigh]

Is it the lower foliage or top leaves thats drooping? Any drooping will be caused by over watering or water logged soil. I would back off the watering for atleast 5-6 days. Can you upload pictures. And what soil are you using? But once again if there not droopy during lights on I wouldnt worry about it.

 

[homegrower]

It's kind of all over, it's more of the real dark green leaves that get droopy. I'm growing in MG , I know it's not the best but I didn't know until after they were planted.

 

[homegrower]

And sorry no pictures, I'm on my phone

 

[WizHigh]

OK, my smaller plants tend to drop and its also in the darker foliage. I guess those are the fan leaves that take up the moste water and nutrients. I really wouldnt worry about it. It may even be from wanting a stronger light. Thats normal. Plants tend to starve for more