Help! Skinny new growth and droopy

[GrowinOld58]

Day 33. Auto Berry. 3x3 tent. Mars Tsw2000 LED. Neptune's Harvest nutes. CalMag at 4ml/gal. Promix DX soil. 50rh. 75-78F. 24/0 light cycle. 3 gal fiber pot. I water only after soil is showing nice and dry, usually about a gallon. She stretched and then leaves started growing real skinny and the whole plant is droopy. What's going on?

 

[quirk]

Let me ask you this. How often do you water? Because I'm thinking though the top may be nice and dry, the bottom is holding water not allowing the roots to breathe. One gallon is a lot for a 3gal pot. and the pot on the left show signs of sitting in runoff. Elevate pots and provide air circulation
if possible. That's my best guess, watering too often. Your light has plenty of power is it at 18-24"?

 

[GrowinOld58]

I lift the pot and when it feels like it's bone dry (really light), I water. This is my first grow in a 3 gallon pot. Seems like it dries out really fast...every couple of days. Could this be nute lock?

The pan next to it has been in use for a while, that's why it's got the stains.

 

[GrowinOld58]

I lift the pot and when it feels like it's bone dry (really light), I water. This is my first grow in a 3 gallon pot. Seems like it dries out really fast...every couple of days. Could this be nute lock?

The pan next to it has been in use for a while, that's why it's got the stains.

Light is at 24".

 

[quirk]

I have no experience with nutrient problems. Unless you watered with one gallon a couple of hours before picture was taken, I'm at a loss.
Good luck.

 

[Backyard_Boogie]

It really does seem like some type of watering/oxygen issue. Its either overwatering, under-watering, or some type of oxygen starve issue such as stagnant water at very bottom resulting in root rot. It seems based off your disclosed watering regiment that you are doing it sufficiently but there is something causing this that you haven't caught yet. Is your fabric pot sitting in a drip catcher? If so I would remove it and get that pot up off the ground like that other person mentioned. Get that pot on a plastic egg crate or a metal cooking rack something that is open underneath so air can circulate all around and dry out the bottom. Poke your finger deep in the soil and make sure that shit is drying out good before you do any further waterings. Also if dirt in the pot was packed too tight in can slow root growth and starve oxygen. Just one last thought. Thats all I can think of based upon the info given. Good luck.

 

[GrowinOld58]

Looks like you were both correct! Lifted up the pot this morning (watered yesterday) and felt the bottom of the pot. Bingo! I could feel the water inside! Drilled holes in the bottom and sides and elevated off the floor.

I've been using these vivosun pots this way and never had this problem. 1st 3 gallon grow though. Must be a tighter weave or something.

Anyway, I also put a fan down low to blow right on the base of the pot to help get air inside. I'll do that for a day or so. I'll post in a few days how things look.

Thank you both for your feedback!!!