I was wondering
... How's that catnip smoke? C'mon, be honest, I know you must have tried some!
I have not tried that, truthfully. It has an aroma of dank funkiness to it that doesn't smell appealing to me. It smells like an old musty house.
I did once smoke coffee grounds when I was a kid. Course as hell, but I swear I got a speed buzz from it.
The cats love the catnip plant. They climb up on the plant and will munch away at it. Then they start acting goofy. They love the stuff.
It's sounds like your cation sites aren't as numerous or full as they could be, and when the soil charge gets flipped, it starves a little.
How about the EWC? That has lotsa cat sites. Do you do the topdress? Otherwise, if you're having the issue, the solution is to try to load the sites as much as you can before the Cats.
Also, heat? I've toasted a couple like that merely because of the heat and lights. You get up past 80 degrees and they like to be backed away from the lights a little more and have the RH raised past 60%.
I wasn't top dressing with EWC when I recharged them, but I've been doing that for a bit now, without a change. I'm in third run soil, which I've been kind of attributing the problem to. I just used up the last of it, so we'll see if it was batch related.
It has been happening right after I start the Cats though, so I'm pretty certain it's related. I've been tweaking things a bit at that point. I think I'm going to skip them on one of my plants just to see. The NepJam is so quick I almost missed the window, and it was looking gorgeous until I hit it with a Cat and then the lower leaves started to fade and they all got a bit of the copper edging.
I'm getting low on 1st run soil as I've been using it for starting seeds. I've also got a small batch I'm cooking with Coco coir mixed in. It's supposed to increase the cationic charge of the soil.
I've had two plants go limp as well. Their fans droop like they are thirsty, but they never perk back up when they get watered. One of my Mulanje and my Thai x Panama both have done that.
I gave the ThaiPan a super drench earlier this week to see if the soil had lost its charge. That should have kicked it in gear if that was the case though but it's still hanging there limp.
My temps have been in line, except for getting down into the low 60s on a few occasions. I haven't had a temperature spike in flower since I put my mini split in.
The humidity gets high overnight and I haven't, as of yet, figured out how to bring it down quickly. I have lots of air movement, so there haven't been any mold issues, but I'm wondering if that may not be contributing somehow.
I'm puzzled. All of my plants look amazing up until they get their cats and then they start to waver. I'll get it narrowed down soon enough.