It is also helping a great deal now that I am not watering nearly as much... the soil feels pretty dry right now to me and I would have been hitting them with a couple of cups of water before I learned not to... but now my moisture indicator probe says there is still some water in there, and no signs of thirst in the babies.
cheap, moisture meter probe...reads: WET/MOIST/DRY...the KISS principle, money, well spent...:thumbsup: