WTF? My plant is effed...Help?

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Ridonc

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Wow ok. So I have had my plant in flowering for 5 days now. I did a 24 hour dark period prior. It vegged for almost a month and was always the best performer as far as growth, and always having perfect leaf structure that never drooped.

Now this morning when I pulled it from the dark room, it was fine. Now twelve hours later after being under light (the same light its been under for weeks) it looks like it wants to just fall to the ground!!! That would be picture 1.

Picture 2 is a picture of how it looked 12 hours prior coming out of the dark room. As you can see, nice and perky

Why is my plant doing this? Its like it cant supprt its own weight. Nothing has changed. Temps, water, humidity-all the same. I have not given it any nutes. It is in organic soil.

Thanks all.
 

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Ridonc

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Jonus said:
Can I ask why you would put the plant in darkness for 24 hours?
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I have heard from many people on this site and others that a 24 - 48 hr dark period before flowering is helpful as far as cutting down flowering time and early sexing
 
Uk.Cobra

Uk.Cobra

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underwatered man soil looks dry give it a good amount of water its going to be drinking more now
 
Jonus

Jonus

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It could be the shock caused from the 24 hours of lights out. Month old seedlings are not adults in the plant world, they're more like a 12 year old adult. I would suspect the 24 hour lights out shock to induce flowering might work in some cases with clones which are essentially cuttings of an old plant, but seedlings that are only 4 weeks would probably bawk at that method. If that is the cause then it should bounce back in a day or two.
 
rocksteady6

rocksteady6

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Did your fans go off when you put the lights out and it could have got very hot in there. This is my plant which was in a cupboard at 105F. I just pulled it as couldnt be bothered to nurse it back.
 

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Ridonc

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rocksteady6 said:
Did your fans go off when you put the lights out and it could have got very hot in there. This is my plant which was in a cupboard at 105F. I just pulled it as couldnt be bothered to nurse it back.
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I keep my plants in a box when the lights are on with 2 fans. The temps in the box never exceed 80. When they goto sleep I put them in a different box in a closet where temps go down to about 66.
 
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Ridonc

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Jonus said:
It could be the shock caused from the 24 hours of lights out. Month old seedlings are not adults in the plant world, they're more like a 12 year old adult. I would suspect the 24 hour lights out shock to induce flowering might work in some cases with clones which are essentially cuttings of an old plant, but seedlings that are only 4 weeks would probably bawk at that method. If that is the cause then it should bounce back in a day or two.
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I appreeciate the response however the 24 hr light cycle was over five days ago now.
 
Jonus

Jonus

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When was the last time you watered it, and how long does it take from a watering before the plant pot is dry enough to water again?
 
rocksteady6

rocksteady6

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Rip it out. Your plant is obviously soft and needs a bit of toughening up. lol. Nah just let it be and dont overwater and i presume it will bounce back.
 
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Ridonc

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Jonus said:
When was the last time you watered it, and how long does it take from a watering before the plant pot is dry enough to water again?
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It takes abouyt a week. I use a very different soil mix which holds and keeps water well. They we're watered four days ago.
 
jimmy130380

jimmy130380

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Looks under water IMO
I had a doublegum that looked the same (dripper blocked) and 12-24 back to normal
no nutes just water
 
Uk.Cobra

Uk.Cobra

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Ridonc said:
It takes abouyt a week. I use a very different soil mix which holds and keeps water well. They we're watered four days ago.
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i would ditch that soil then.... you want a nice soil with nutes lots of perlite for drainage and air you don't want the soil to stay wet/moist for a week... you will have problems root rot etc

you wanna run water threw the pot till it leaks out the drain holes

depending on your temp and humidity it should be dry in like 1-3 days....
 
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Catogenic

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Definately Under-watering. I had the same problem with my plants a few weeks ago, and even though the soil felt moist they were better a few hours after a big watering.
jimmy130380 is right, water them without nutes and you sohuld see an improvement pretty fast
 
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bleachfan

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How big is the pot? If it has been in there for 5 weeks and the soil is moist then I would suspect it is rootbound, especially since it has had no issues until now. The roots grow at night and if those tips wrapped around themselves during the night then whats going to happen is that you wake up to see a wilted plant. Its happened to me before and transplanting it did the trick.:-o
 
livinthadream

livinthadream

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oh damn bro i feel your pain, looked in my box yesterday and saw nothing but drooping plants started freaking out, never ever seen em so bad in my life...I gave them all a 1/2 cup of distilled water and kept the door open to get lots of fresh air in and every hour i looked at them and noticed how they were perking back up...heres some pics of yesterday and then today, 24 hr difference
 

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