thanks so much for your input delta ive been troubleshooting all day and i think i might have found out the problem.

so i kept testing and retesting the PH of my tap water to make sure that it stays around nuetral and found that the water's ph had dropped 1-2 points. i thought this was odd so i checked the ph of water i had left out for a day and it too had dropped in ph.

so i said forget tap water and went to the grocery and bought some arrowhead distilled water to use when replanting.

i had been using a B vitamin solution because i heard this helps with root growth since these are newly rooted clones and i found that this stuff greatly reduces the ph of the distilled water! like 4-5 points! i was astonished and amazed that i had been feeding my plants this water. poor things!!

so i just finished replanting them and i don't have the resources yet to get more perilite so just cut more fox farm ocean forest with the heavy vermiculited soil i was using to try to get a smaller amount of vermiculite in each pot. then i flushed them with distilled water and poked a few holes in the soil and put them back under the light. lets see how they do..

does anyone know if using too much B vitamin solution is really bad for plants and would stunt their growth? and have these kind of affects to the leaves?

i also added a little bit of steer manure to experiment on one of the pots in case this is a nutrients issue. although i've heard that Fox farm ocean forest is packed with nutrients