Plant with curly leaves. Is it in fashion now?

[Martin in Holland]

The top growth of this plant starts to curl so it must be something it's not getting or it the latest fashion in the plant world. The strange thing is that it happens on the same plant where other branches are growing really well

as you can see here.
What could this be?
I'm dosing EI, have pressured CO2
pH of 7.4 when lights are off and 6.1 with lights on (KH is 5)

I started to dose more NO4 and Iron (Iron actually also to get a better coloring)

 

[ceg4048]

Any structural anomaly with a plant is due to poor CO2.

Cheers,

 

[Martin in Holland]

Hmmm...that's what I thought....I see what I can do about it. I need to find a better way in dissolving my CO2 and/ or better distribution. Although most plants are doing great, some are still not perfect (good, but not perfect)

 

[ceg4048]

Sometimes you just have to live with it, especially if you're a Klingon by nature. As you'll notice, the leaves that curl the most are the ones closest to the light, so as the stem moves up towards the surface they get pummeled more and more by photon torpedoes. Oftentimes, the amount of injection required to solve the problem would annihilate the fish.

Sometimes it just takes a while for the plant to make the adjustments to that amount of PAR. The leaves later may grow normally but the plant will increase the pigmentation to combat the high energy.

Definitely prune that section off and see how the new growth behaves. The damaged portions will never recover, so just lop it off.

Cheers,

 

[Martin in Holland]

good suggestion, I will cut of the effected plant part and yes, I am Klingon kaplah