Why is my plant doing this?

hokaku

Member
Hi guys, I'm on the 60th day (from seed) of a Dinafem Haze Automatic. This strain should take a total of 80 days according to the Dinafem website. About a week and a half ago I moved my plant under a 250w HPS light which she seemed to love. After a couple of days, I noticed what looked like heat stress at a height at which my other plants do absolutely fine. In the next few days, I noticed most of the fan leaves were exhibiting signs of heat/light stress. Most of the fan leaves yellowed out progressively and are still currently doing this.

The thing I started to notice is that all the new leaves are a much, much darker green than the old ones ever were. So the way it is, it looks like the plant is eating up all of the leaves it had when I first moved it under the 250w hps and is replacing these leaves with darker ones that do not exhibit any heat/light stress symptoms.

Is it normal for ruderalis to do this? Has anyone got an idea of what's up here exactly?

Cheers!
 

Scyntra

Well-Known Member
just a guess, but maybe light stress if you had it under cfl/flora the hps is way more intense and takes some getting used to by plants...anytime you take a plant and put it under a HID light the light should be raised way up and slowly lowered over a week or two to allow the plant to adjust...
 

hokaku

Member
just a guess, but maybe light stress if you had it under cfl/flora the hps is way more intense and takes some getting used to by plants...anytime you take a plant and put it under a HID light the light should be raised way up and slowly lowered over a week or two to allow the plant to adjust...
Ouch... that could be it. So is ruderalis more susceptible to this than the other varieties? My white widow did just fine during the transition from CFLs to HPS.
 

rollandtoke

Active Member
every strand is slightly different in oh so many possible ways, when doing a CFL to HID move, its very important to keep the HID as far away as (feasibly) possible, and then work it closer to the plant as it gets used to the new High Intensity. It takes about a week to get it down to normal heights for the light, just make sure there is plenty of airflow to reduce direct heat hitting the baby.
 

matthebrute

Well-Known Member
pix? i would like to comment but dont feel like getting flamed for bad advise. might just be your plants way of adjusting to the new light. pics would help to see if its worth worrying about.
 
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