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I just switched my Jackberry over to a completely new system yesterday and its really really droopy. Not just the leaves even the stems are droopy.
Its in a 3 gallon bucket with 2+ gallons with river stone as the medium. I put 10 quarts of water to begin with (2.5 gallons) along with 13 tsp of Advanced Nutrient Grow. There is a 10 gallon aquarium pump attached to a maybe 2 inch x .75 inch air stone, kind of brittle, its a aquarium air stone. I currently have a 42w, 25w, and a 125w in there, I turn the two lower ones on at night and have the 125w on during the day. The temp gets about 76F - 82F.
Sad plant..
Any ideas?
Im going to re-do it today. I am getting some expanded clay pellets. I think I might even re-do the nute solution and get a new air stone.
Quote: Dephect said: Just wanted to confirm this. This is for other DWC users who have the same problem.
If your plants are droopy like mine check your water level. With DWC you want the water level to be below the net pot.
Why? You don't want the water soaking the medium, you want the bubbles from the air stone to pop on the surface of the solution and splash the bottom of the pot hitting medium keeping it damp. If you over soak your roots you will have the same the same symptoms of a over watered plant. You need your roots to be somewhat exposed to air.
I poured the solution out leaving it 1"-2" below the pot.
Hopefully this will solve my problem and the plant has not been completely drowned.
That is the general way of doing it but isnt set in stone. If you have a lot of air in your nutrients(excessive) you can submerge the net pot to just below the base of the stem. I fill my res until the pots are 2/3 submerged and it never causes problems, but I only do this to combat my height restrictions. You also only want to do this with the right medium. I use Hydrotron, but any rock like, non-absorbative medium with work. But to give you an Idea of the air I'm moving here are some pics of my tubs
Ahh, I got you..Seems like you have everything in line just made a mistake not having used the setup before.
Hope to see the rest of this grow..I will follow and update mine some here as well as in my main log...But here is my seedling...
Damn pupppy knocked down the light that I had rigged up while I was working on some of the grow area and almost broke it but it held up but it burnt a couple of the lower leaves which won't be a problem in the long run anyway.
I just cut them off after I saw they werent going to live anyway and went ahead and tied it down a tad to get it ready...
Here is the newest seedling..I wish I had more pictures but I'll show you what I mean by using supports throughout my grow if you check here I just never take picture but I'm documenting this grow that I'm doing from some 100 watt hps security lights that I got for 20 dollars and some 70 watt cfls..
Thats after pup burned it =[..kind of worked out though as you see..