plants vert dry, shriveling, should they be cool if watered?

hey guys. i just got back from vacation for a week and a day, and went to check on my babies and they are extremely dry. they are wilting pretty badly, the soil is totally dry and they have a real dark green color to the top of them and they are kind of shriveled up. they are all about 3 feet tall or maybe a little more. i was wandering if they should be alright if i give them a real nice watering tomarrow morning? will they perk back up? on a few plants a few leaves are gone and on one or two the main cola is sort of slumbed over, but nothing to serious. if i water them tomarrow morning (in about 10 hours) should they be alright? i dont think they would die (but what do i know) so i wanted to make sure they should be cool? what do ya think? thanks alot

 

Well water them and find out, that is the only thing you can do.

 

like skull kid said water, i had that happen and the leaves actually all dried up except for one or two, i had to trim all of them off, but hell after i trimmed it i had nothin but all heads grow back, now it's nothing but flowering heads, so beautiful, but anyways water and give them a few days, they will come back. :karate:

 

if the leaves are crispy/shriveled........pretty much your screwed, if they are just wilted a bit but still soft for the most part a good watering should perk em' up.

 

yea guys. well i jus did it and seen them in the day light. one has the top that has bent over and dead it looks like, should i cut this top off? the rest of the plant doesnt look like it, the leaves are jus wilted.

most of the others have the real dark, drooping leaves. they are drooping so im hoping this watering will bring them back up? how long does it usually take for a plant to regevenate after being watered? how long til the wilting wil go away?

a few have crisp leaves, but theres only one that has the entire plant pretty crisp. could it perk back up?

like i said most are just very badly drooping,. but not falling over , just the leaves are drooping down. they are still green and all, and the plant is standing, its just that the leaves are drooping. whadda think? thankns for the help

 

keep it well watered and should perk up

 

the crispy one, id say your good-byes. As for the others, they should usually perk up in just a couple of hours, just make sure to keep em' well watered.

this is kind of odd, whenever a plant wilts and dies from underwatering, the bottom of the plant starts to die than rapidly the whole plant starts to be effected. Im saying its wierd because i've never seen one die from the top down from underwatering. But if this is the case then, depending how much of the top is dieing, you can go ahead and chop it off. But if you chop off too much it will put the plant into quite the shock, sometimes resulting in death of the plant, but usually resulting in about 1-2wks setback until it continues normal vegitative growth.