hairmetal - do you mind sharing the name of the nursery in Purcellville? BTW - went to Susanna Farms for the first time in donkey's years. OMG they are expensive. But being in MoCo like that, I can't really blame them. Charge what the market will bare. Oddly they had some wierd bargains that almost felt like they'd forgotten to add a 0 to a price. Unfortunately they were too big to fit in my car, like a nice Juniperus rigida pendula, that I think was only $79. It was huge. I really wanted to get something but just couldn't hold my nose tightly enough. I can understand pricing something like a showy Japanese maple high. But they had some little Trochodendrons that were no more than 20" high. Sure they are slow growing when small...but $120? Who's going to buy that? At that size they are about the most anonymous, bland, broad leaved evergreens imaginable. They look like scrounged up bunches of English Ivy. I maybe could have gone up to $65 out of the kindness of my heart, but, $120? Nope. But if they get rich suckers from Potomac to pay those prices, good for them. They do have a nice selection of what I'd call the standard upscale plants...which is getting harder and harder to find. For example also took a quick walk 'round Merrifield's Merrifield location (haha), was disappointed with their selection of similar stuff. If it's showy and marketable, like the Encore Azaleas, they make room for it. Otherwise, overall a more utilitarian, albeit slightly less expensive, selection. And still heavily pushing Leyland Cypresses which is a questionable business practice IMHO. This post was edited by davidrt28 on Wed, Oct 16, 13 at 23:46

A little more information would be useful, is the system inside or outside, how many plants do you have in the tote, how deep is the tote. As the roots are only 2" below the netpots for now, the plants will be relying heavily on the water stored in the hydroton, as the hanging roots get longer they will need more frequent flooding (maybe every 30 minutes) to prevent them drying out between floods. The tap roots will eventually reach the water but the roots in mid air will only have the water coating them and excess water from the hydroton running down them after each flood cycle. This post was edited by hex2006 on Mon, May 26, 14 at 20:43

Thanks Blue. I can now see you are 100% right - the 18 slice 2" mesh net pots came the other day. They weigh 4.0 grams each, too flexible, and the lips are tiny and molding shoddy. The only way to deal with them would be to buy a 1 7/8" hole saw. To add further insult, about 10% of the lips were not completely molded, i.e., missing material and are worthless. These disappointing mesh net pots came from hydroponicsnation in CO via eBay. They are obviously not reliable for most veggies, though they might be pretty good for Spiritweed, garden Dandelion varieties and the like. I may just snip the 16-slice bottoms out and insert them in the durable 4 slice bottoms I'm using currently when I get a chance. They came from homeandgardensupply in RI via Amazon, and weigh 4.5 grams, which made all the difference to their integrity and clearly superior durability and molding.

I'm going to guess you damaged the roots during transplant and they haven't recovered yet. Here's my rationale: turgidity occurs when transpiration is greater than absorbtion; since your plants are heavily shaded(or picture taken in the evening) its probably not so hot the plant is transpiring that much. The new leaves appear unaffected; root damage usually occurs to older roots as they're bigger and more likely to get broken and the younger roots are actively growing thus more likely to recover from any damage they receive. Of course it could be over watering is killing your roots thus yielding the same symptoms. you might try something more along the lines of 1/2 on, 4 hours off.