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Im wondering how long your plants have been drooping like that?. They do not look happy at all. My 1st thought is over watering. The roots may be drowning. They need air just as much as we do. If your using regular dirt/soil substrate and your soil is muddy then you need to back off with the watering. Give the soil time to dry a bit so air can get down to the roots. A trick to get air to the roots in a soil substrate is to take a couple of cheap plastic straws. Poke holes thru-out the entire straw. Small holes. Then you take a few straws and push them into the soil all around the pot 4-6 should do it. Make sure to keep dirt from falling into the straw because now those straws are your air delivery system for your roots to breathe. There are other possible reasons for dropping but overwatering is just the 1st thing to pop in my mind. I hope they perk back up for ya.

Those are definitely stunted mate, personally I’d allow a serious dryback then adjust your watering schedule. Most plants in soil are double that size at 5 weeks.

Yea. I figured they are stunted. Like I said it’s my first grow. Never even tried a cactus prior so I’ve got a large learning curve. But I’m a sponge and I appreciate the help. I’ve really just now got to where I feel the plants are in a good situation. I started off in poor soil. And I kept them in small pots a little too long. But I think I’m in a spot where going to see some growth heavy in the next week or so.

I just transplanted the day I took the pics and downloaded the app. But I appreciate your help

Since I transplanted them that morning I took the pic and downloaded this app.

When transplanting I suggest sprinkling mykos on the roots and drop some in the bottom of the pot you’re transplanting in. If the roots are circling and are tightly bound you may need to root tease them which is just gently breaking the roots apart so they’re free and dangling before transplanting. I also water in with recharge to help kickstart the soil’s biology. Never had a shock from transplanting since I started doing that.

Yep u need some micrizal bud that takes care of transplant shock get mykos wp so it's a powder from u can turn it into liquid if u desire

Ok. Thank you.

Personally I think your plant looks fine. You have plenty of light in there. Those extra light strips is a nice touch to get light under your plants canopy. Not necessary but it doesnt hurt either. I just did my 1st ever trim last week. I thought I did a crappy job but it actually worked out well for me. I still very much so want to cut off a few more fan leafs that are bugging me and blocking a bit of light but once I did LST and moved some branches up, down left or right for light to get thru where I needed it to and its been fine. I choose to wait at least 2 weeks before I go back and cut off the last few leafs and 1 branch I want gone. I think just using your own gut judgment will serve you well. Think of the plant as a person. You just got out of surgery. You still need operations. Do You feel up to having surgery right away back to back? Na probably not. Same goes for the plant. Just use your judgement. Give her some time to recover n grow again then trim what you want. BUT REMEMEBER THIS RULE OF THUMB if you dont already know: Always start trimming from the bottom & work your way up. AND NEVER trim more then 30% of your plants foliage at one time as it will be high risk of to much stress. Now I may not be 100% right because I am a newbie but I also work in Hardscaping. I've planted plenty of trees and plants over the last 7 years and from my honest p.o.v.. I think your lady will be fine the way she is. Just rotate her and let her grow bigger before you trim again. And last thought I have is that you are in a community of all different types of people. Smart n rich to broke and dumb and all of the in-between. People from all walks of life all levels of smarts n skills. NOT everyone is a professional book writer. Why am I saying this? Because I read an earlier post of yours that I took as an insult. You wrote something along the lines that reading comprehension in this app is left to be desired. I Took that as a petty insult from your frustration about not liking how a person responds or their grammer.. what else could that statement possibly mean🤷🏽‍♂️. It feels like an insult directed at anyone that doesnt type or speak in a manner acceptable to you. Well bud. Im here to remind you that there are people here from all walks of life. Do not go insult an entire community for a sour emotion you have towards grammer or a response you got from a question you asked for help with. Thats like biting the hand that feeds you. You come here for help and advice and turn around and insult the entire community based on grammer and speech patterns. Thats just screwed up. This is a new app being made into what it is by people like me that lack perfect grammer and speech etiquette. In the future please try not to insult a whole comminuty because it doesnt meet your social standards. Not saying this to be a D-bag nor do I want to start something. I am the type of person that doesnt give a dam about much of anything so if I caught this than im sure others have spotted that statement aswell. Just unlike others im not afraid to speak up and definitely not afraid to be blunt. We all want to get along and learn from each other here. Thats what this app is about. Learning from each other. So be a little more opened minded in the future. Please. Have a good weekend. And I hope your plants turn out great as I am sure they will. ✌🏼💨

Noted. But I don’t like being insulted or spoke to negatively, and my response was that, a response to negativity and ignorance. But I’m not here to debate social norms. I simply stated that if you don’t have anything to say, then don’t say anything at all.

Please explain to me where I insulted you. Are you really that ignorant. I literally calmly explained your wrong and if someone doesnt speak up you'll never be corrected so excuse me for posting out a mistake you made insulting an entire community. Someone how explaining your fault is an insult. You need help dude. NOW IM INSULTING. Now im being negative. LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCES between the way I wrote this and the way I nicely explained your wrong in the last text. Dont be so naive. I thought I was a sour dastardly but you take the cake pal. This definitely isnt the place for you. You think you can come here here and insult a whole community and not get a reprimand. Your looney. Like a maga follower. Hear what you want belive fairy tales and with this comment I am blocking your rude ass

I did not say you insulted me. Again I am not discussing anything with you. I was referring in my original post about not being able to understand what I wrote to somebody who made a smartass remark. So mind your own god damn business. I said that it was a response to an insult. Not you. Read what I fucking wrote you ignorant son of a bitch before you come at me with some stupid ass petty shit. I responded to you thanking you for your advice and stating that my comment was in response to someone continually saying the same thing in a derogatory way. So. Now that I’ve wasted my time explaining something that is none of toe business. Try ale my original comment to heart for yourself. Reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit either bitch.