Root Zone too cold. 58f. Basement.

Hello. I am freaking out. My plants have pretty much come to a stand still and are always droopy. Getting some pretty bad lockout too.

The root zone temp is 58 f. I have a few milk crates to prop them up on and water dishes.

I could probably put cardboard all over the floor under my tarp.

Anyone else have any more ideas to help me get the temp up above 65.

This is terrible. I saw it coming. but now it is a problem.

I am in 100% coco. 10x10 plastic room. 1000 watt hps. Vented into the room currently.

I have forced air gas heat going into the room, but it only helps a little unless I want to run my whole house at 80 all winter. Which I don't.

I also am very against getting a space heater because I only have a 15 amp breaker and it is pretty much maxed out.

Any help is much appreciated. Im going to go get them all off of the ground somehow.

I posted a bunch of pictures in my journal

Get a heating pad. You're welcome.

I have the same issue. My growroom is in my basement and where I'm at now, its something like -125 degrees outside or something like that. Luckily, I can run a small electric space heater in my room. I also have 3 inch thick pieces of insulation that the pots sit on to help keep the cold from the cement floor from creeping into the pots but its still colder than ideal. Until it warms up some mine are pretty much slowed down to a crawl right now.
Winter sucks ass.

A lot cheaper to fix cold rather than over heated . Cool nights are good for kush and when the lights are on there's lots of heat

For some reason my kush is thriving on 75-80F lights on
55-65F Lights off

No weird color turning or stunting, in fact I wake up to more bud structure everyday.
That is temp at the top of the canopy to, I wonder how cold it gets at the bottom.

Oh well, as long as they don't die on me I'm happy.

If you do decide to get some sort of heater.. Seeing as I have the same problem, I live in New England, so the cold has been harsh. Been nothing but - temperatures here at night. But this baby seems to be the solution to my problem. And only costed 30$. Evenly distributes warm air, has a secure feature so if knocked over it automatically shuts off. And I just keep a fan nearby it. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Honeywell-Electric-Mini-Tower-360-Heater-HZ-0360-WMT/15063190


p.s. It also has a feature which let's you set a current room temperature, and will only kick in when it drops below. Just couldn't get the hang of setting it up.

From everything I've read, been taught by my few growin buddies irl, and personal experience 58 on the lights off shouldn't really be causing the lock out. Plants handle cooler than that in the wild.. For example the spot I stayed a few summers in Cali averaged 85-90 in the day but dropped to 55 almost every night in July.. I knew a cpl ppl growing in coco buckets outdoors without problem. Good luck

I did take precautions to keep the roots just a tad warmer. But I have come to the conclusion that they probably need food. I have only been feeding the biggest ones a 25% feed every watering with runoff. I just watered 4 of them with 6/9ml of GH. I hope they look fantastic in the morning. They did look a lot better this morning after I raised the temps a couple degrees and insulated the floor.