Well its really been disheartening with all the issues I'm having. There are so many elements to the equation and I don't think I've recieved good grow advice in the beginning. I've been trying to find a guide or something I could base my grow off of but I'm not finding anything. It doesn't seem that the way I'm growing is what alot of hydro growers are doing. Now I'm on a quest to find if my watering schedule is ok and I'm not really finding any relevant info on that either. I'm afraid that I may be overwatering because what I've done is, I germinate my seeds by dropping them in a glass of tap and letting them soak for a good 8 hours or so. Then I put them in between to plates with moist paper towels (which I found out is bad practice but I don't know what other way to go about it) and when I get some tap roots that are just about a quarter of an inch long I place them root down in a rockwool cube. At that point I water them twice a day for the first week with PH adjusted tap, then the second week I use 1ml/gal of Ionic grow in a gallon of PH adjusted tap until they have about 3 true leaves. I have these rockwool cubes sitting in a tray with with no pearlite or anything, just the cubes. Once that is happend I transplant them into my ebb and flow system by using 1 gallon plastic bags with holes in them, covering the rockwool cubes with the clay balls. So far, I've been on a watering schedule of 30 minutes at a time, four times a day which never is changed. What I'm now wondering is if I've been overwatering them because of rockwools nature to retain water or not. The other issue is where I should start with my nutes do to my high PH tap. I won't be able to start using RO water till the fall and this is my last grow attempt until then with these seedlings that I'll be transplanting into my e&f this weekend so I've been digging around all day for answers. I'm starting to wonder if when I start in the fall if I should use that coco medium instead of the rockwool. Blarg!