watering

after reading a few of these threads i am almost certain that the problem that I'm having is also due to over watering. the question that i have now is how much and when are you supposed to water...

Best way is to lift the pot, it will be quite light when it's dry and heavy when wet.
You'll soon get to know the weight.
I also use a moisture meter with a long prong, they are cheap and should be readily available at any garden centre.

Also, I just noticed your lights, you'll need a lot more than 2 cfls.

Water when the lights go on, or just before. Once every few days. Soil should feel dry a couple inches down. Comparing weight also works.

water young plants just until the pot drips water out of the drainage hole, no more. WATER SLOWLY. do not water so quickly that a bunch is sitting on top of the soil waiting to drain! when they get developed, you can water with 10-20% runoff. let the soil dry a little in between waterings, but not to the point that the soil retracts from the edge of the container.

how any bulb cfl you need to grow one plant, and how anny watts??? please reply firt tie grower

actually i have 3 100 watt cfl's on them and a 15 watt fluorescent tube in the middle of them and the fan is off to the side so i think the lighting might be good until they get a little bigger. i just put them into bigger pots too so hopefully this will help because the roots were starting to stick out of the bottom of the peat pots they were in. thanks for the advice though they are starting to perk up a bit from where they were last nite.

Those are three 26 actual watts. 100w incandescent equivalent.