thank you so much for your advice. I hope my plants will survive.
I added more dirt and I put them in my balcony. Now the growing conditions have changed, there is more sunlight and for more hours (6am to 8pm) and the wind is mild (I live in Portugal).
this was a dramatic change for the plants, I know. But if the temperature here remains the same then I am positive the plants will survive

oh yes, there's no problem about the police because the plants can't be seen from the street and there aren't big buildings around.

I'll need your help again, I'm sure. But now I have to let them recover.

(I can't buy any lights, I wouldn't have money to pay the bill so this is really the only solution, growing outside in the balcony)