Visited the plants today... I guess they were over-fertilized after all. I added a little bit of 5-5-5 like I said earlier, and now, as you can see, the lower leaves that were yellow are now totally dead and withered, and the higher leaves are now yellowing. Damn... I should not have added fertilizer after all I guess. I thought surely the problem was that the plants were under fed, because I hadn't fed them yet.

That Fafard potting mix must have had a lot of food in it after all, even though it didn't say it had any. I'm kind of pissed that it says "perfect for starting seedlings" when in reality it over-fed my babies like a mo-fo. Oh well... another lesson learned I guess. Next year I'm starting in rockwool for sure.

Do any of you start in rock wool or another soil-less mix? If so, when do you start feeding the plants?

I suppose I need to flush these ASAP, but we've been getting rain and the soil hasn't dried totally out for a couple days. I want to let it dry out so I don't continue drowning the plants. Plus the rain has helped flush them I'm sure.

Also, I think I'm going to get a Ph tester. I haven't tested the soil or my water... I figured, how bad off could it really be? Given my poor performance so far with these plants, I should probably be doing everything I can to give these plants the perfect environment...