Plant Moisture Stress - Symptoms and Solutions

Can u tell me why my plants fan leaves are getting so long & droppie at the branch that they are breaking away from the stem ?? My plant is 1 month and 4 days old at foot and a half tall just put into flowering 4 days ago indica.

I have a question for you uncle Ben. My cuttings(clones) was dark green looked healthy, I had them under 100 watt strip light for 24 hours for 2 weeks. Then changed to my bigger light 600 watt few days later some of the plants look brighter green not yellow though. Do you reckon i have got the light to close? Or something to do with the nutrients. hope you can help cheers.

bigpotsmoker said:

I have a question for you uncle Ben. My cuttings(clones) was dark green looked healthy, I had them under 100 watt strip light for 24 hours for 2 weeks. Then changed to my bigger light 600 watt few days later some of the plants look brighter green not yellow though. Do you reckon i have got the light to close? Or something to do with the nutrients. hope you can help cheers.

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How's the root system?

the roots are sweet i am using that canna rhizotonic to be honest i think there ok now because there drinking but now they don't look like there growing what height you reckon i should switch them to 12/12 ?

Genetics ?

My Blueberry x Northern Lights almost always droops a little after watering...not curling or anything extreme just a little droopy. Almost like heat droop.
Even if allowed to dry out to the point of leaf drooping....add water they immediately perk back up, but a couple of hours later will look a little droopy again.
Next day they are standing out arrow straight again. And continue to do so until next watering.

I did poke some holes in the soil and the bucket as it seems there is heavy pocket at the very bottom of the pot.

PH 6.5
RH 45 %
12 / 12
CO2 500 to 600 PPM.
Temps 72 ( night) to 82 f ( day )


Plant is not suffering in any way...growing like crazy right now ( have to move the lights up 2x a week now ) 2 weeks into flower. It's booming baby !

Happened last grow as well....end product was amazing ! ( Same strain )

I'm thinking the roots have not reached the bottom of the pot yet so no water from there is being used yet. Transplanted into bigger pots two weeks before flowering.

Think I'll go drill some more holes in the bottom of the pot.

Like I said..next day everything is normal.

If the roots haven't reached the bottom of the pot within a week, something's wrong. Could mean root rot induced by over watering, soil borne diseases.

Uncle Ben said:

If the roots haven't reached the bottom of the pot within a week, something's wrong. Could mean root rot induced by over watering, soil borne diseases.

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Nah...that wasn't it.
Cut hole in pot it and it did have roots to the bottom ...roots all white and normal looking, Their were just none at the bottom drainage holes yet

And it was a big pot...2 gallon to 5 gallon tall boy.

Today it looks amazing again...! Watered yesterday.

Definitely never over watered. I never make that mistake anymore.

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Talked to the guy I got the clones from and he said it was normal for the way I water them.

I don't overwater but when I do water it's on baby !

Instead of using a gallon of nutes to water I'll use 3 gallons of nutes and get a semi flush in there.
Anyway I guess there is different levels of watering a plant.
No other problems and like usual, today they are arrow straight and happy.



I'm not going to sweat it anymore.

Last plant did the same thing and the end result was Blueberry heaven !

After Reading this thread I might be attributing to my own problems haha. Thought i was seeing signs of Pest problems. Seeing a little curling and now starting to see more and more leaf margin burn (about one water leaf per plant) I have been looking at leafs under my scopes and i do not see anything. only have a 30x though. Here are some pics of some of what im seeing that i have not seen before.

Any Suggestions or comments are GREATLY!! appreciated!

Haven't been round lately, but my symptoms are similar to-Lbchsdigity-on my latest grow,and wondered 'can Someone tell me how to post pict from iPhone?'
Need sum help with spotting on new transplant. Thinking its too hot of soil?, but my Smartpot is not draining where the super soil is layered and now considering a fungal side affect.
Flushed 5gal. pot /5gal. H20(noticed the draining issue) so I proceeded to loosen the soil in the Smartpot by dropping her..F*#k(accident).
So I now have three questions:
Rust spots, how to attach picts. from iPhone and..how stressful is it to a plant to have its newly established already stressed root system rearranged,Torn? Disrupted.ect.

Titan4jah said:

so doc, say i want to trim a root bound plant like a 4 month old mother, i can just pop her out a cut the bottom 1/4 inch off her root ball, as well as take some off the sides with a razor? and this will keep her in check with out damage?

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I think he means it will unbind the root ball. You still need to Go a size up in pots (and more soil) so the newly cut roots will have somewhere to explore and expand, and find new sources of food. The plants will get bigger though. I didn't read anything in the post about taking some off the sides, just cutting slits straight down the sides, but I'll bet you could do it without adverse effects.

OK Unc, I'm thankful for the post, but I would really like to get your personal opinion on this one. This is my 2nd grow via forced veg. I have two main symptoms:

1) New growth occurring on my bud (like it was forced into veg state). This I found due to some buttons on my light timer were inadvertently pressed down and the light was coming back on for a couple hours late in the night. I know this is was definitely not good, but back on 12/12 now. I estimate the light problem spanned about 4-5 days. My question here is - have I ruined my plant, or is there a chance to recover.

2) There are some spots on my plant leaves and I want to assume it's too much nutes, but I'd like a more experienced opinion on it. I am watering with water only right now as of 2 days ago. Please take a look @ the pics and tell me what you guys think.

I have some good quality seeds on deck, but I want to gain more experience with my John Doe bud first versus fuckn up a really gud thang...

I thought I was en route to a good growth spurt with the buds, but then well, u see 'em.
The 1st 3 pics are from last week.
The middle 3 are the spots followed by 2 of the new growth.
I did also add another CFL (to make a total of 3 23-watt 2700K 3" away from leaves) about 3 weeks ago.
It's a stealth grow 4' tall X 2' X 2'. Using white faced - hard board (like dry erase-board material) for the walls, in/ out computer fans. I water every 3 days (plan on only using pure water from now on through harvest).


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Hey man just started growing and I really appreciate this thread I am sure I would have been or may still be one of the groans but at least I know what to watch out for thanks!

THx UB for the great info here.. one day looking great... anbd next day curling and pale...dammit!

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does anybody know anything about fogponics think i am starting to have a root root problem

ok need a lil advise i have 818 headband and afghan kush they popped up about 2 weeks ago and look healthy as can be but i noticed today when i went down there that one leave on each plat and very bottom started looking bad and today i go look an this is what i find.

these are the only two leaves that look this way both are on very bottom and both have the same thing going on any ideas

Uncle Ben

so I have a new 1000 watts system and my plant were doing great from seed looking very healthy from seed... Moved my plants from my germination/cloning room to my grow room it's about the fourth day and the leafs half good color but the edges of the leaves are starting to curl up and in no yellow spots anywhere. I'm thinking my light might be lil to close but ventilation isn't a problem perfect temp in room. I back the light off a little bit this morning see what changes if any but any ideas I'm trying to catch it before its worsens.

trying to post a picture but doesn't seem it will let me on the iPad ill have to upload one soon so better show what is happening.

Looks like u might be developing some sort of mold or fungus it's always good to keep the bottom of the plants cut back from the soil leave that hang low are at risk for such issues.... Did u figure it out?

Stabbing it won't help, the channels will just close up over time. Pulling out very small cores vertically through the rootball will work but I doubt if you have such a gadget.[/QUOTE]


like a cheese iron? lol

Hello & Help

I am a first time grower and am having problems getting plants started. After the seed germinates I transfer into soil and thats where the problem starts. They seem to die? Seed sprouts are going into seedling soil no nutes. I have had 3 of about 10 germinated seeds actually break ground the rest died. Once in dirt I put into a dome maybe that's the problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.