I water when the top layer of soil, about 3/4 of an inch, is completely dry. Been like twice a week? There are drainage holes in each cup. As I said before I am using SensiCal. The water quality here is very poor, thus the distilled :] The reason I clipped them was because I thought they might be diseased, and wanted the plants to put more energy into making new growth than trying to fix whats broken. Very possible my train of thought was flawed on that one :P I did use the troubleshooting form, just answered as many questions from it as I could in my first post (not in same format). Do you think maybe they need to be transplanted?