My sick autoflower

I have a 4 week old auto that is giving me the flux right now usually when my plants droop down they want water. I just hit them with nutrients Thursday an because of how it look i gave it more water today before lights off
Well it is now loghts on an the plaqnt look even worse im honestly thinking about calling it quits on this 1 but im not sure an last feed was ff bush doctors cal mag an the ff trio my other 2 plants are doing great so im not understanding where the problem is or am i over thinking things

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Have you been watering to runoff? Temp/RH? What’s you PPFD/hrs, or DLI? Have a side picture too?

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I honestly dont have the devices to read all of that but i do ph the water manually an i did water till i had a little bit of run off today

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Lights on temp fluctuate from 72 to 74 off it drops no lower than 65 an an my rh sits around 50 to 40%actually raises to about 60 with lights off

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Sorry I dont see why you would quit on her. She looks fine except a little bushy. Side photo would help.

Also, I would avoid watering before lights out by the way. Higher chance of issues. Give them 2 hours to wake up and then water so it has a chance to evaporate properly during “daytime”.

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Thanks 4 the advice its makes alot of since

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Welcome , overall plant looks good. You might consider taking a few leafs around the bottom touching the soil. Also tuck a few of the bigger fan leafs on the top for better light penetration. :+1:

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Assume you mean PPFD/hours (since you provided the other types of numbers), which can be converted to DLI…you don’t need a device to know roughly where you’re at, you just need a map for the intensity of your light at distance, from the manufacturer/third party and there are charts for where you should be once you know. This information will help you.

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Download the photone app to check PPFD for free. It’s as accurate as my $400 apogee sensors…sadly lol

Could you be over watering a little? Good advice above about not watering at lights out…the plants will spike your humidity as soon as the lights go out, even without being freshly watered. Also, cannabis likes a good hydration then a good dry back. It does not like to sit with its feet wet…if you water too frequently you end up never letting the lower part of the grow medium dry out.

Also, dry back implies a healthy dry back…not a dry out. You don’t want your plants to dehydrate as that’s equally problematic in the other direction.

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Yes, I would remove lower leaves and try and open it up for more light. What kind of light, how far away? Sometimes raising the light a bit will encourage stretch… it’s a balancing act just watch how they respond and only change one thing at a time so you can tell what that change did.

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Also, consider raising the pots off the floor. I use an oil drain pan with a plant dolly inside of it. That way the bottom root zone can dry out better and pull in oxygen. Then, you can also water to runoff which you should be doing especially with salt-based ferts (like FF trio)

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