Healthy plant?

[kingfish]

<I don't want to push you, but have you considered starting over?>

I didn't have the heart to say it.

[Budlofsky's Dinner]

I understand what you are saying. The leftover I mentioned was unused soil that was still in the bag. Still a valid point you made tho.

[Royal Nugs]

I hope they recover. I know this has been a good learning experience for you.

I don't want to push you, but have you considered starting over?

[Gordo41]

At PH 7-8 your plant is starving for nutes, and no matter how much you add, they will not feed until you get the PH of the runoff down to 6.

[kingfish]

I make it a practice never to reuse soil. You never know what lurks inside. 100% Fox Farm would have been a better choice. Just my $.02

[Budlofsky's Dinner]

The bottom 1/2 of the pot has fox farms. The remaining top 1/2 is left over organic soil I had.

[kingfish]

I should add that I am going to be verifying the ph of the soil and adjusting with ph up / down as needed. I have some cheap device purchased at the hardware store that I'm not conifdent with. It is hard to read but it seems to be indicating ph is somewhere just above 7 and close to 8.
I also filled the pots with fox farms soil (that has the guano/ earthworm casings) in the bottom half then topped with the organic I had left over. Both soils recieved a good mixing in of perlite.

When you're dealing with seedlings like yours and growing in soil. Forget about any kind of nutrients for the first 2-3 weeks. If you are using Fox Farm soil.(I'm not sure what your saying about guano/earthworm castings in the bottom half) it has enough nutes in it to sustain the seedlings for while. I personally start feeding nutes when they are about a month old.

[Budlofsky's Dinner]

I should add that I am going to be verifying the ph of the soil and adjusting with ph up / down as needed. I have some cheap device purchased at the hardware store that I'm not conifdent with. It is hard to read but it seems to be indicating ph is somewhere just above 7 and close to 8.
I also filled the pots with fox farms soil (that has the guano/ earthworm casings) in the bottom half then topped with the organic I had left over. Both soils recieved a good mixing in of perlite.

[Budlofsky's Dinner]

Update time.
Plants were put into 2 gallon smart pots close to a week ago.
My plant that was growing well had the bottom leaves get really bad spots and were dying off, so I removed them last night.
The plant that was stunted seems to be doing ok, but also started curling a bit and getting brown on the tips.
It dawned on me that perhaps I should raise my lights, so I put them up to approx 30 inches away.
We'll see how it goes and post an update in a week.

[Sonnyhad]

There appears to be quite a learning curve growing these, plenty of things can go wrong! It happens to all of us, we share our mistakes so others can learn from them as well!

[Budlofsky's Dinner]

Well, I was skeptical about buying seeds online and figured what the hell and pulled the trigger. I wasnt prepared at all when they came in. Now that I did some more research after the fact, I prob should have started with an auto instead of a a more unforgiving strain. For what I invested on seeds and their potential yield vs what I would pay for instant gratification I will still come ahead by alot, and in more ways than one.

[Royal Nugs]

Great attitude to have. I have a hard time admitting defeat. It's so hard to keep things in perspective when you poured your time, energy, money, love into it.

[Budlofsky's Dinner]

Well, I'm pretty sure one of the plants is going to bite the dust. Hoping the other one pulls out ok. I activated my backup plan by sprouting an auto that has peeked up to say hi already. My initial plants might not make it, but either way it is a learning experience for me.

[Budlofsky's Dinner]

Yeah, I think it was overwatering + not good drainage. Hopefully they will listen to you and bounce back quickly.

[insomniaczzz]

Your plants really do look savable. With the new soil and smart pots, I think you're on the right track. Give them time to recover. If your only problem was overwatering, they will bounce back quickly.