Quote Originally Posted by Nog
Dude.....They are weeds, they want to grow. Put them in some dirt, give em air and light, they will grow.....I think you are just messing with them too much and you are killing them. You should try not disturbing them so much, just sprout a seed, throw it in the medium, water it, don't water again till dirt is very dry, repeat.
What do you think I did the first time around. I obviously had a NUMBER of issues that needed to be remedied. First I had nuted soil, now I'm finding out the PH of my water is near 8. PH for this should be between 6.4-6.8 PH, my water is very Alkaline. Lighting wasn't horrible before, but it definitely wasn't adequate as I'm seeing now with the improved growth rate of the plants that do have problems even with the high Alkaline water.

I'm not sure if you've even read this entire thread, but the plants themselves have not had anything done to them that didn't need to be done. The only place I've been changing things up at is in the germination process. Which I could care less about since I have plenty of bag seeds.

I've had problems pretty much since my seeds have sprouted and all I did was water them, wait till they were dry, water them again.

Thanks for your input but I feel you're off the mark here. I definitely have a number of issues I wasn't aware of when I first started growing that I have evidence for. It's not just a simple issue of water, let dry, and give it air/light. If that's all it was then my plants would be flourishing.

I've seen your grow and it looks good, but try throwing a newly germinated seed into some nuted soil, water it with water that's been PH'd to about 7.9, and then stick it under some T12 lighting that is in the wrong color spectrum (3500K) and let's see exactly how well it grows. I bet your plants end up looking like mine . Yes I screwed up alot, but at least I know what I've done wrong for future reference.