Please Help! Soil to Flood and Drain

hi, a buddy brought me plants in 6in pails of miricale grow. we took them out of pails and put them right into my pea gravel set up. they are not doing so well. they are alive still after a week but looking unwatered. i have had huge success in my setup for years but i always used 1in rockwool then into peagravel/clay pellet mix. never used dirt.i have been treating them as if they are in rockwool. i have been researching and i have found that going from soil to hydro is not easy. what im asking for is any tips or advice on a feeding/water cycle for the situation i'm in. should i pull them out and wash off all the dirt? should i just cut them up into clones in rockwool? water/flood just up to the bottom of the dirt and not wet the dirt? any advice?

Pics bro pics!! No HPS please. Nute, schedule, PH everything about your set up please.

i have no schedual yet. was watering 3 times a day. lights on 24hr 400 watts of t5 on sides 2 1000w hps and 400w mh over head. temps are at 80f and humidity is at 40. fox farm nutes ph at 6

Sorry dinner bell, You have issues but non that cannot be repaired. Can I see some closer pics and ones without the lighting they are washed out. Figuring out a solution now.

Are those stems purple?

yes stems have purple stipe

did the best i could about lighting for pics

Cut down the lighting just a bit they are light stressed no need to blast them to death. Yes the plants are in rough shape and normally I would say to pull them out and get the dirt out but you are stuck with what you have you will kill them otherwise. Figure out how wet they are my guess is that you have been over watering just for the fact that the dirt is soaking wet and roots have not wandered out of the area yet. Dry them out and dig around the root ball to check the soil. Next we need to talk about foliar spray. Do you have a grow and a bloom nute? Let me know that and we will go from there.

thx for help. i been spraying them with 1/4 strenth big grow. i started that today at about 9pm and the have responded well already. the over water is exactly what i have done. the dirt is wet but rocks are dry. there are no root out past dirt yet.

is 1 400w mh and 400watts of t5 to much? i turned off the 2 1000hps

what does purple stipe mean?

Yes 400 is perfect. And the big grow is Fox farm? If so we need to get high levels of P& K into them so if you have a bloom as well lets make up a spray that has a more balanced NPK to it. Ideas on how you want to do that? The purple is from just the shock and the plant pretty much stop feeding because of it.

thx, yes fox farm. there is new growth comming out of stem and base of stem. i have been spraying them down with follier strenth nuts then with striaght water every 4hrs and they seem to be starting to stand up. i think i will treat them as a soil grow until roots appear out the bottom of dirt, then i will start flooding again but only up to the bottom of dirt

Smart guy!! Keep us posted

hey sparkafire thx for responce and advice, they are rising from dead

They look much better!! It will take awhile but they will live.

yea i think so to and those last pics are right after i hosed them down whith ph'ed water so they are soaked and still looks better. thx for help. i gave you some rep

update next day