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Hello everyone. I have been punching myself in the dick for the past week trying to figure out WTF is going on in my room... let me bring you up to speed.
I run a sealed (extremely sealed) 8000 watt flower room. It has a 25,000 btu a/c unit, compressed co2, a dehumidifier, and a heater all controlled by a Sentinel CHHC-4 climate controller. I have 12 Air King wall mount fans for plenty of air movement. I recently harvested the whole room and had it empty for a few days. So as always I cleaned top to bottom with 10% bleach/water solution. While empty I also did some maintenance... added a new coat of dutch boy floor paint (same as used when the room was built), switched out my old 25000 btu a/c unit (that had a broken fan blade) for a new SoleusAir 25000 btu unit from Menards, and upgraded to a Original can 100 carbon filter from a can 50. So, basically its the same as before.
I have flowered in this room for 8 months without any problems, actually with amazing results. I let the room chill with the door open to air out for 2 days after finishing my maintenance. Everything seem to be great so I fired the room up as usual and turned my Lumatek's down to 600 watts with the intention of moving my new crop into the room, vegging for a week more under HPS to get over any possible light shock and then flipping it. I set the CHHC-4 to 74 degrees, 800 ppm of co2 and 60% RH. 12 hours after moving a healthy crop (that ranges in age from 1-2 months old, various strains, and on different feeding schedules) into the room every single plant looked over-watered/under-watered and extremely unhealthy. They basically closed up on themselves. Typically I don't experience any stress when moving in new plants. Most came from 1000 watt MH that was dimmed to 750 and a few were under two 8 bulb fixtures of t-5's. I decided to wait a day or two and see if they come around. After running for three days I noticed the RH staying down around 30-35% so I added a humidifier to the controller bringing the RH to 55-60 consistently. This helped a little bit, but still nothing looked healthy.
I had a good friend from the farm come over and brain storm with me. He mentioned VPD witched seemed like a possible candidate, but with the RH now in check that makes my VPD 1.12 kpa. witch is in a healthy range. My runoff ph and ppm both seem to be fine. I assure you they are not over/under watered. So, here I am at 5am writing a thread... been up all night continuing to research. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Here are the some pictures of the sorry sad sacks that are in the room and what they have done. they are still drinking at the same rate they should be. About every other day.
This plant I just moved in two days ago as a test, It didn't close up like the others. But it had a little light shock coming from the t-5 and I feel like it is starting to take on the dry, twisted leaf.
These pictures below are plants that I moved into the flower room and collapsed. So I moved them back out under the t-5's and they came back around within 12 hours or so... still not healthy. But better than fully collapsed upon itself.
These pictures are of plants that haven't ever been in the flower room, but I feel like they are slowly taking on the start of the same problem... twisted, dry, and droopy.
I run a sealed (extremely sealed) 8000 watt flower room. It has a 25,000 btu a/c unit, compressed co2, a dehumidifier, and a heater all controlled by a Sentinel CHHC-4 climate controller. I have 12 Air King wall mount fans for plenty of air movement. I recently harvested the whole room and had it empty for a few days. So as always I cleaned top to bottom with 10% bleach/water solution. While empty I also did some maintenance... added a new coat of dutch boy floor paint (same as used when the room was built), switched out my old 25000 btu a/c unit (that had a broken fan blade) for a new SoleusAir 25000 btu unit from Menards, and upgraded to a Original can 100 carbon filter from a can 50. So, basically its the same as before.
I have flowered in this room for 8 months without any problems, actually with amazing results. I let the room chill with the door open to air out for 2 days after finishing my maintenance. Everything seem to be great so I fired the room up as usual and turned my Lumatek's down to 600 watts with the intention of moving my new crop into the room, vegging for a week more under HPS to get over any possible light shock and then flipping it. I set the CHHC-4 to 74 degrees, 800 ppm of co2 and 60% RH. 12 hours after moving a healthy crop (that ranges in age from 1-2 months old, various strains, and on different feeding schedules) into the room every single plant looked over-watered/under-watered and extremely unhealthy. They basically closed up on themselves. Typically I don't experience any stress when moving in new plants. Most came from 1000 watt MH that was dimmed to 750 and a few were under two 8 bulb fixtures of t-5's. I decided to wait a day or two and see if they come around. After running for three days I noticed the RH staying down around 30-35% so I added a humidifier to the controller bringing the RH to 55-60 consistently. This helped a little bit, but still nothing looked healthy.
I had a good friend from the farm come over and brain storm with me. He mentioned VPD witched seemed like a possible candidate, but with the RH now in check that makes my VPD 1.12 kpa. witch is in a healthy range. My runoff ph and ppm both seem to be fine. I assure you they are not over/under watered. So, here I am at 5am writing a thread... been up all night continuing to research. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Here are the some pictures of the sorry sad sacks that are in the room and what they have done. they are still drinking at the same rate they should be. About every other day.
This plant I just moved in two days ago as a test, It didn't close up like the others. But it had a little light shock coming from the t-5 and I feel like it is starting to take on the dry, twisted leaf.
These pictures below are plants that I moved into the flower room and collapsed. So I moved them back out under the t-5's and they came back around within 12 hours or so... still not healthy. But better than fully collapsed upon itself.
These pictures are of plants that haven't ever been in the flower room, but I feel like they are slowly taking on the start of the same problem... twisted, dry, and droopy.