Please help I don’t know what’s going on this is my first time growing
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Please add what info you can so we know how best to help you
What strain, Seed bank, or bag seed (photo or auto)
-Age of plant
-Method: Soil w/salt, Organic soil, Hydroponics, Aquaponics, KNF
-Vessels: Type and capacity of container (fabric, plastic, etc)
-PH and TDS of Water, Solution, runoff (if Applicable)
-PPM/TDS or EC of nutrient solution if applicable
-Method used to measure PH and TDS
-Indoor or Outdoor if indoor, size of grow space
-Light system List brand and wattage/spectrum
-Actual wattage draw of lights
-Current Light Schedule
-Temps; Day, Night
-Humidity; Day, Night
-Ventilation system; Yes, No, Size
-AC, Humidifier, De-humidifier,
-Co2; Yes, No
If growing Hydro some additional questions:
-DWC? RDWC? Autopots? Ebb and Flow? Other?
-Distance of liquid below net pot (DWC)
-Temperature of reservoir
-TDS of nutrient solution
-Amount of air to solution 1 Indoor or outdoor? - size of grow?
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Tropicana cookie for the bigger one and glorilla cookie for the smaller one. Im at about week 7 all together. I used soil. The bigger plant has a fabric pot the smaller one has a plastic pot. I gave it water only last night. When I add my nutes I add silica first then flora micro then flora bloom. My last mix was silica cal/mag flora micro flora bloom then big bud after that I have only added water. My ph was 6.6 when I added that last mix. I didn’t have any runoff last night when I added the water but as I moved the pot today it was water under the pot. I’m growing indoor with 36w x48D grow tent. My current light schedule is 12/12 today I changed it to 18/6. Temps range from 80 to 91 hum 46% I have a ventilation system but no humidifier. I don’t know what kind of light this is it was given to me. But it has been on 120v hps it’s a very powerful light its big also while trying to move my light up it hit one of my plants not the tip of it is leaning I don’t know if that’s a good thing seeing that it was almost touching the light of if I just messed my plant up
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They are both autoflower btw
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One thing I see is the plants should not be sitting in their run off. They should be up on plant risers so the excess salts can get out of the pots/bag. 6.6 ph is just on the high end, I shoot for 6.4 or so in soil.
Good luck with your grow.
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I must of potted it wrong because the plant riser is inside of the bag/pot I thought that was how you supposed to do it smh
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Idk what kind of dirt you use but I learned fast to spend the extra money and get good dirt. I use Great Lakes dirt and it has never failed me this is my current grow right now Skywalker OG feminized I chose feminized because you have more free range for stress training and longer veg. I started out with a basic light and now I have several lights and grows going Mars hydro lights are my go to but I also have a viper tech light as well from Amazon From what I have been taught by all the OGs in this forum it looks like heat stress to me but I could be wrong. You have definitely come to the right place for help everyone in here is awesome and will get your grow right and get yo to harvest some monster buds.
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Here is a pick of the kind of riser I am talking about. I have a few plants on one until they get bigger.
They are for outside the pot…I guess you are getting some benefit with the soil not sitting in water. Since you are already in flower…I would roll with it.
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Maybe it is heat stress my heat vents in my house are on the floor I didn’t pay attention to it when I set my grow tent up so the vent is next to the grow tent. I did put a towel over that specific vent so it wouldn’t be hot I try to keep my heat off while the light is on but sometimes it does get cold so I cut it back on. How would I fix this problem? I do have an ac unit in my window that is right next to the heat as well but I don’t know if that will work or not
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Hi, looks like climate stress to me.
90F is OK if good air exchange is there. Ventilation should remove warm used air from the tent and supply fresher air in.
Sometimes droop is only a reaction to artificial dusk/dawn (“waking” and falling asleep), sometimes watering/feeding, should be temporary in them cases.
Is it still looking like that today?
For how long and what changed when it started doing this?
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Do you have a ppm meter and check runoff with it? Always good idea to check pH and ppm of runoff. Could be heat stress along with possible overwater or too high of ppm. The tips can curl down from too much nutrients and over watering. A lot of autos are more sensitive to nutrients feedings aka higher ppms
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Ventilation is the first step making sure you got good air flow going both in and out of the tent. I have an intake fan and an exhaust fan in my tent the exhaust fan takes air out of the tent and the intake fan brings fresh air in. Also make sure when your watering it you wait for the top of the soil to dry a little first to the touch so you aren’t over watering it.
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I second that post regarding ventilation.
Also with MH and HPS lights you should have the hoods air cooled with the air exiting the tent.
Heat stress could be your issue.
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As long as you have good ventilation as mentioned above. the temps will not harm you. I do autos a lot. I have also used the gH nutes before. Never soil though. I have always been in coco. If you want a quick fix to get your pots out of their run off water. You can use an old refrigerator screen with a few cans under that. And place the tray between the 2. It is hard to see here. But I used the fridge screen and they have clear containers under each to catch the run off. The black stand is just a section of an old bed frame I cut up. I was able to get 2 nice stands from it 
I fed till I had 4 cups of run off. I am not sure how you feed in soil. Also, they are right. Autos don’t like being fed to much for the most part. I never fed above 50% of what GH recommended. It may be worth training the plants down a little or at least super cropping them over. You will need a wire or some thing to hold the branch to where you want for a week. So it doesn’t bend in half. You are off to a good start though 
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This is my plant today it was touching the light so I did this I’m not sure if this is the right way to do it please someone let me know Also it looks a little bit better today the tips are still a little yellow I don’t know what that means also I do have a ppm meter but I gave my plants plain water 2 days ago so the ph might be a little off
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Also I have a ventilation system that came with a duct fan so I have that in my tent with a small fan. Do I need another fan or humidifier or something?
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I think it’s vented good. Plant looks ok too.
The tall stem can be bent down away from t he light. I would squeeze and roll and soften it here (yellow line) then bend it down to a right angle.
Them hps lights make it hard see discoloration and it looks ok to me
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If there is room to set the fan on top of the tent. You could do that and run ducting from your light to the fan. And get more usable room in the tent. You could raise the light higher. Just a thought.
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