2Week old plants, curling, spotting, yellowing

[Rusty Trichome]

They have indoor growing lamps, hydro sets, and the like; so I would assume they have all of the soil too.

Stay away from those spotlight/flood grow lamps. They put-out more heat than lumens. CFL's and/or HID lighting is best overall. Fluoro tubes (shop lights) as a last resort.

I was doing some reading over at 420Magazine and I found this snippet from a forum post.

Wow...they're still online...? :wtf: <kidding>
I learned to grow using Miracle Grow products, and can verify that parts of that snippet are quite accurate. The nitrogen will deepen the green, add stretch, and can malform the leaves. But part of what the post was describing was a ph drop, not botanical nitrogen narcosis.

Is there a certain way to transplant to a new soil without utterly destroying the girls? I assume pull them out and try to get the soil off the roots without damaging them too much, maybe flush the soil too?

If you can't flush the nutrients (which you can't with time-release formula's) just transplant into a pot of the new soil. If you'r in too large of a container already, you might want to considder removing some of the soil from the rootball. Likely your rootball isn't 'overformed' yet, and most of the soil will just fall away during a normal transplant.

But if the roots are well-formed and holding the shape of the pot, I'm going to tell you how I'd do it, but use extreme care. Likely this step isn't necessary, unless it is an emergency.

First, fill a bucket half-full of warm, properly ph'd water.
Second, perpare your new pot and soil. Leave more room for the roots than you think you'll need.
Third, gently remove rootball from the pot, and ease it (the rootball, not the whole plant) into the warm water. Once rootball has absorbed all the water it wants, very gently 'massage' the loose stuff, and whatever will easily fall-away from the roots. Aggression will kill your ladies, so do not be aggressive. Pull the plant out, and as you are holding the base of the trunk at the level you want it, (an inch from the top, be careful as saturated soil can weigh-down the roots causing stretching and breakage)

Keep holding it there with one hand, start adding soil with the other. (hang' the roots into the pot as you are gently adding potting soil.) 'Fan out' the roots in the bottom of the pot, and add soil as best you can in and around the roots.

From there, I fill the pot, gently tamp it down, fill it again, gently tamp it down again. Water-in the transplant, and fill voids with more soil. This will leave you with about 2 inches of room at the top of the rootball. Fill to within 1 inch of the top of the pot, but leave room for watering. Tiz ok to bury an inch or two of stem to raise the soil level to where you want it.

At two weeks, a 3 gallon pot is too big. I go from 2-cup seedling cups, to one gallon nursery pots, to 2 gallon nursery pots, to 5 gallon pots, but only once rootball is developed enough for the transplant. In my experience, too much rootspace detracts from foliar growth and development. (use the right size tool for the job)
And remember...One "oops" wipes-out a thousand "atta-boy's". (use care)

You have been so helpful thus far, I figured you would know the best way.

Tiz why they pay me the big bucks.