Negative on the pre-soaking. That info was found shortly after starting. There was a contemplation of soaking the whole pot with plant and all in some low ph solution but for some reason was decided against.

At first there was a huge problem with ph fluctuation. It would go up to 8 or higher in a matter of hours. At first the problem was combated with some lemon juice. Then after getting tired of all that some GH ph Down was bought and used with extreme joy. Now the ph doesnt fluctuate very much at all, so I am lead to believe that the rockwool has balanced out.

After changing out the resevoir of death, which was really red and salty looking, the plants are looking better already after about 20 hours or so. The ph is currently about 6.5-6.8 steadily. For the last week leading up to and during this nightmare, the ph was at about 5.0-5.5.

I do believe the actual cause of this is that my foaf put WAY to much nutes into the resevoir. He was basicaly measuring his tspn by pouring the nutes into the cap of the bottle to the brim. After finding out that a tspn is 5ml, he measured out 5ml in a syringe and squirted into said cap to find that it is actually about 60% of a cap. Sooooo long story short he was adding approx 40% extra nutes. Live and learn, get loves.

Thanks for everyones replies and what not, you guys are the bestes. i will keep this thread updated with progress on the babies. They are looking better, but still have a ways to go. The big ass plant never even skipped a beat, and is swallowing his neighbor up, also notice how fat the big ones stem is! The two real saggy lanky plants on the end arent doing as much better as the rest, but they are gonna make it I can feel it in my loins. Wish my friend luck!

Peace and love.