I have 2 plants. 1 is having drooping issues and the other has white spot issues. Both get watered the same, maybe every 2-3 days when the top inch of soil is dry. I know drooping can be from overwatering. They are drooping and twisting, but not dying. I use foxfarm strawberry fields soil. I only add nutes like once every 2 weeks, like 3 tablespoons. My lighting system isn’t only giving about 5000-6000 kelvin per plant maybe. Using a lot of small bulbs. 4-7 inches away from plants. Any ideas on these issues??
Soil is foxfarm strawberry fields
Soil in gardening pots with holes drilled around for drain
PH of runoff or solution in reservoir? Paper tabs show water used and soil are around 7ish. Or neutral
What is strength of nutrient mix? 0-0.5-0.7 foxfarm liquid plant foot. Big bloom
Maybe light is too close to plants
White spots could be if you got water in the leaves. Water magnifies rays of light (think of magnifying glass (water) and the sun (your lights)
You should be able to hold your hand comfortably under light. If not, its too close to plants
I will add that the kelvin rating of your lights has nothing to do with how much light intensity plants are receiving. That more or less describes the type of light they are getting. If you’re bulbs have kelvin rating that high, they’re not ideal for flowering stage of plant.
I’m not familiar with makeup of strawberry fields soil, or what you’re using for feed. But I feel it’s pretty safe to say most of us are feeding more and more frequently by that stage of plant. Filling out support ticket would probably help us get you the best information.
Are you sure you don’t have any bugs living around those leaves? I can’t confirm what I see from the picture, but I say that so other factors are taking into consideration
They seems to be eating a lot or getting to much high temperatures, the leaves seem to be looking down…
Have you thought as weel at a fungus case? mildew?
So, just my own experience with leaves that looked like that and the kind of clawing that yours are doing. I personally had a nute lock out and so while I was feeding my plant, lightly, she was starving, eating herself, only her though, because she alerted me first and I fixed it with her twin from the same bag seed. I had to flush my soil, let it dry out, and then restart nutes. I got 952 grams out of her wet and put them into the jars last night where I stored 428 grams of not very good bud. It couldn’t help it, it was “not good” bag seed, some kind of Mexican. I know I will lose a bit more weight while curing.
Over watering can be a issue are you watering at the start of the day or at the end of the day.I had a similar problem when watering in the middle of the day the plant would take the moisture in the leaves and the lights being to close this would cause a cooking of the leaves.But overwatering will cause your plants to have a chicken claw shaped leaves.
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drooping leaves can be from under or over watering
Also 7 ph is a bit high fir the plants you should be at the highest 6.8 in soil above that lock outs will start
Low side is 6.3 and optimum wouls be 6.5-6.6
Also you need to check eun off after your water since your seeing issues
I suspect your ph levels are off in the soil
Recheck ph of run off and post results when you water next @Jbowman93
Also you ahouls be feesing flowee nutes
Tiger bloom is ff flower nutrients to be used in conjunction with the big bloom
I think we have several different issues here @Jbowman93
The others have addressed several already.
Here is the ingredients list from the Strawberry Fields soil mix.
This product contains 35-45% coco fibre, sphagnum peat moss, aged forest products, perlite, and fertilizer (see below). DERIVED FROM: Earthworm Castings, Bat Guano, Oyster Shell and Dolomite Lime.
You should do a slurry test of this soil as it has a lot of non-soil mixed in and the dolomite lime. Take a half glass of water and pH it to 6.5 and add a tablespoon on your soil and stir it up. Wait a few minutes and test that water and let me know what the pH is.
7ish for potted MJ plants is not where you want to be. Depending on the slurry test,you need to be going in at 6.5 or 5.8 pH
The nutrients schedule for fox farms calls for feeding them twice a week . Most of us feed water feed water.
You are only giving them partial nutrients as well. FF has a big three that are needed for flowering. Grow Big and Tiger Bloom are needed as well as a balance. The feeding schedule chart is below,
Best way imo is using ph up and down
You can get pint bottles fairly cheap but if your going to need it i would just buy gallons myself
I ise more ph sown then i do up also @Jbowman93
My standard stock response when I read a post like this is, even if you are on a tight budget, invest in a good digital pH tester. The paper tabs are barely ok for testing water. Even a decent inexpensive digital pen will get you a more accurate picture of where you are and where you want to be.
