A 6-4-4 should support good foliage production.
By adding soil up to the leafsets you'll induce root output along the buried stem. DO NOT change soil and cause further stress to your plants. Relax and let your plants do their own thing. The reason why I said to avoid top soil is because it is usually pretty heavy with additions of clay and/or silt. This is all a moot point if the pot drains OK, that's the issue, aerated roots. Also, as the roots explore the pot they will wick off an incredible amount of moisture. I like my soils quite tight for lower maintenance. It gets old watering a 3 gallon pot twice a day, a quart each watering.
Does your soil have any Mg? If you don't know, then this is what I'd do. I'd get me a good potting soil from Wally mart, MG is fine or Schultz, add about 1 TBSP. to 2 quarts of potting soil in a bucket, mix well, and carefully add this mix until it comes just below the first leafsets after settling it in by waterering. A caveat, you must retain a "well" in the pot so that it will hold water. I've even removed lower leafsets just so I could get the seedling as deep as possible. I always do that with tomatoes and sometimes with cannabis, at least the small 1st leafsets.
Peat is highly acidic, like 4.5, so the dolomite lime will help buffer your pH up a bit.
If your potting soil has bluish-green pellets (which most do) then it has a 3-4 month nutrient charge in the form of a polymer encapsulated food. I buy it commercially as that's my biz, it's a Polyon product, same principle as Osmocote but of much higher quality. You should know what you start with before understanding where you're going. $
Good luck,
UB
Soil is Scott's topsoil.. it's very light and the pot drains very well. After my watering today (oops) i had to sop up a lot of water. I tested the PH of this water and it was 5.5.
I have miracle gro potting soil, but I was told not to use this. The top soil has no fert pellets, but the miracle gro has them.
The pots I use have a tray you can plug into the bottom, but this blocks 4 of the 8 holes (the 4 holes you plug it into have small slits around them for drainage). I however, don't use this tray, because I'm nervous of root rot or stagnant water.
Back to the soil, my 3 to 1 to 1 homemade. It drains well and doesn't clump. Before using the topsoil, I pulled out all chunks of clay and the bark, and left just the fine soil. It seems to retain water well.
Any more questions, I'll gladly answer. I really appreciate your help.
OH and also:
I figured i messed up somewhere, so, I started germ'n 6 bagseeds to test which medium was better. I have 4 in rockwool (followed directions and dipped it in 5.5 ph'd water+1drop/gal superthrive) and 2 in peat pellets (read it on the FAQ somewhere.)
The peat pellets germ'd faster, but the root in the rockwool (tho germ'd 12 hours later) was much longer. How do I know this? I broke them to see after 36 hours.
So, now, I have started 6 good seeds and am waiting to see how they are doing.
Their setup is:
Humidity dome
Heating Pad underneath
2 26w CFL 6500k (for now) 1 foot above for low lighting.
Dome is constantly foggy/"condensated"
If there is no fog/con - i mist the dome's inside.
Use a turkey baster to suck up the water from your saucers, dump into a plastic milk jug and use this tea to water your indoor plants or veggies.