HELP! Dying plants???

planted 2 seeds 8 days ago. using miracle grow pottin mix thats feeds plants up to 3 months. planted in plantable pots. 1 seed already had a half inch root poppin out from germination when i planted it. the other had cracked open. after 2 days the seed with the tail (plant 1) was sprouting out of the soil. the other (plant 2) came 2 or 3 days later.

i am usign one of those flourescent light bulbs that uses 23 watts energy but emits 90 watts. 18 or 1900 lumens. got the plantable pots set up in a cardboard box with the interior walls covered with aluminum foil. i had the light about 2 inches from plant 1. i say this because after a week plant 1 was about an inch and a half tall. all stem with the4 leaves at the top. plant 2 looks regular thou, about a half inch tall with 4 leaves.

i was watering everyday, but like just sprinlking them with a lil water. everything was fine until yesterday. i read that i shouldnt be watering so much so i didnt water them all yesterday. i have them on a 18/6 light shift. they sleep from 12pm to 6pm. when i woke up this morning both plants had fallen over and looked like they were dying! i quickly sprinkled them with some water and added more soil mix. i left the light on past 12 today until 1pm because i felt they needed to recover. by 1pm when i put them to sleep plant one was back up right, leaves still looked droopy, and plant 2 seemd the same, maybe a lil more upright, couldnt tell. i cant post pics now because they are sleeping, so for now here is the potting soil mix and the pots. as for water i buy bottled water and let it sit a day or 2.

i will post pics of how they look at 6-7ish pacific time. does anyone know what may be the problem without seein photos?

It sounds to me like the plants have stretched and fallen over.

Use something to support them... move the light in closer (about 1" away), and also get a fan. An oscillating fan. Have the fan blowing on the stems slightly, this will stimulate them into growing a thicker stem.

whoops heres the soil

what kind of fan is that? i have some mini fan i use, ill post a photo of the whole set up in a lil.

also should i not be using a dark period when they are looking like that?

No. Especially not under that little light. they need all the help they can get.

An oscillating fan is one that turns.

Thats The Worst Soil You Can Pretty Much Get. Time Released Fertilizer Is Bad Because You Dont Know How Much The Plant Is Getting And When Its Getting It. You Want To Use Peat6 Moss Mixed With Perilite And Some Vermiculite.all Of Them Can Be Purchased At Your Local Garden Store For Very Very Cheap. About $3.00 A Bag.

Sounds like they maybe trying to 'damp off' on you. I would stop watering until they are fairly dry and slow down the watering schedule. Adding soil will help with keeping them upright, maybe bury to the first set of leaves?

Just my opinion.

alright took your advice skunk and got up back under the light and my mini fan. got some photos of the set up and the 2 plants. ill look into that soil, although i know people have grown with that mg soil.

the first photo is the setup, i tilted the light to the side only for the photo.

the 2 next photos are of plant one, it had a longer stem before but like i said i put more soil in. the last is plant 2 which seems to be back, it had fallen over earlier today.

They should turn to face the light fairly quickly...

Did you saturate the medium with plain ph'd water, then leave to drain before putting in the seedlings?

Do not give any nutrients in that soil.

A lot of people have problems with MG soil and nutes, myself included... I used the nutes once (to see if cheap nutes were as good as expensive ones) and burnt my plants to a point where I gave up and rescued the strain through clones. The strain grew fine after that in good nutes.

The thing is with the MG soil is that it has time release nutes, and these quantities are not well regulated for marijuana. When you feed, it's a good idea to saturate the medium rather than feeding in smaller increments. This will also help to flush out some of the harsher build-ups of salts in the soil.

Do you have a way of testing PH?

Dude, that Miracle Grow is fucked. I just did an experiment with Miracle Grow and other soil.

The pictures are here. Take a look. It's not pretty, but it is true.
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/30116-been-long-time-coming-been-35.html#post385585

sup people, my plants are having the same problem . i had twenty low riders now im down to eleven. they were all growing fine until one day they started to fall over. im also using the time release soil... i bought some worm casting. would it hell the fallen plants if i put the into the worm castings or is it to late. i have a 400 w light 3 feet above them plese help me save my babies

how hot is it in there durring the lights on faze? how wet is the soil, they look overheated and possibly over watered to me.

well its a wrap. i killed them today.they looked even worse then those photos. i think the one dude is right, its the soil. they almost look like they have overdosed on the nutes. super purple stems. i doubt it was the heat, there wasnt much especially with the fan. it could also be because i sprinkled them a little bit each day and i know the water brings the nutes to the plants and maybe they just kept getting too much nutes as a result. oh well. R.I.P.
got a seed of some purple urcle, probably try planting it in a month. i think ill try that scott's soil. im just tryn to grow some buds, dont really care too craze ont he outcome, just wanna do it once then after make better plants.