no they werent outdoors, they were indoors, just in small 6 inch pots. i rinsed the dirt from the roots and put them into my top feed (drip irrigation) system using hydroton. i am hoping that i will be able to solve this problem by adding another 15 L of water without any nutes to the res. hopefully this will dilute it enough.

p.s. i have posted a couple pics. sorry about the quality