My babies are turning yellow from the bottom leaves up! help!

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Aright everyone...its my first time growing, I currently have about six or seven plants on my back porch. I live in Florida, and the temp is about 75-80 right now. The plant pots that my babies are currently in are about 6". I got an organic soil that is made by my local gardening store, it states on the bag that it contains high fiber Canadian peat, coconut fiber, sharp sand, airlite, gypsum, dolomite lime, and pine bark chips. I havent put a super soil in with my base soil yet, and I realize this is where my problems are stemming from. I dont have the extra money right now to go and buy all the nutrients I need, but I plan on going to pick everything up around January after Christmas. When I first planted these guys, about two-three weeks ago, I was majorly overwatering them. My plants leaves began to droop, almost like they were too heavy for the stem to hold them up. I did a little research and read at numerous different websites that I only need to water the plant to the point where the soil is damp, and i have been doing this instead now. I got a spray bottle also, and I spray the plants with enough water every day that the soil is somewhat moist. I find that I need to rewater them every morning though, sometimes even twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon (I'm assuming Florida humidity is to blame for this.) I'm not sure if this could be attributing to my yellowing leaves, I dont exactly feel like its the culprit though?

I'm more sure that my plant has a nitrogen deficiency. I know that the pH of my soil is a solid neutral 7, and I'm currently using distilled tap water to water my plants. I researched a little about N deficiencies today and I read on numerous websites that dynagro 7-9-5 is the best to use. I have already ordered some, I'm just a little worried that my plants may die before it gets here. I have head shops in my local area but none of them sell the necessary things to grow. So, now for the bomardment of questions.
Do you think that my plant has a nitrogen deficiency? Or do you think something else is wrong? Have you ever used dynagro? How quickly would you say it helped your plants? How often did you give it to your plants? Did you simply give the plants the amount the package told you to, or did you change the amount?

Lastly, my super soil recipe.
8 large bags of a high-quality organic potting soil with coco fiber and mycorrhizae (i.e., your base soil)
25 to 50 lbs of organic worm castings
5 lbs steamed bone meal
5 lbs Bloom bat guano
5 lbs blood meal
3 lbs rock phosphate
¾ cup Epson salts
½ cup sweet lime (dolomite)
½ cup azomite (trace elements)
2 tbsp powdered humic acid

Basically, my questions for this are pretty simple. When it comes to the time that I begin mixing my super soil, how should I measure it out? Should I mix one large bucket of the super soil, and say, use about 1 part super soil to 3 parts base soil? Or should I simply fill the plant potters about 1/3-1/2 way with the super soil, then top with the base soil? Or...should I just get larger pots? lol.

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annddd my last picture. After taking this I moved aside some of the soil and it was pretty dry down where the roots are. I watered it pretty well and went to look at my other plant that is wilting, to see if it had the same problems, but it didnt. The soil was damp towards the bottom in my second plant..so maybe I have a nitrogen deficiency in one plant, and the other one is just experiencing problems because 1) its planted with another plant and 2)there isnt enough water/nutrients to keep them both alive?

Patience my dear... this is a weed and it is not used to such attention. Just water it, and let it sit until it dries out completely. Get a feel for how the container feels when it is dry, and then train yourself to wait until that point before you water again. Too much love can kill. Relax... the plants know what to do.

along with what Emilia said, the leaves that are yellowing are actually the cotyledon- which are supposed to die off.

Alright, thank you Emilya & Faddenator. I might be slightly ridiculous, lol, getting all bent out of shape about some leaves that are supposed to fall off in the first place. Thanks guys ! :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Miss.smokealot

Alright, thank you Emilya & Faddenator. I might be slightly ridiculous, lol, getting all bent out of shape about some leaves that are supposed to fall off in the first place. Thanks guys ! :thumbsup:

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No problem. Keep us updated, I'd love to see how they progress. :jointsmile:

Looks like soil is too wet. Space out watering a bit more. That is one heck of a recipe you have there. Be careful not to burn those babies up. Itreid a similar recipe years ago when I was starting to grow. It was real good until it got bad fast. Just be careful. Peace

Hey, How are the plants doing? I'm just trying to recover mine. They're looking just like your pics! I overwatered.... :\