Hi Cheryl,

The only thing I can add to what your are doing is to put a hole with a pencil in the bottom of each cup for drainage, put all the cups on plastic trays, put the trays in a very sunny window, where they will get sun for like 6 hours a day, and cut the cups down -- they sound too tall -- -so that the plant is getting the sunlight.

Make sure you water them regularly so that they don't stay dry for too long.

Once they perk up you should be able to take the trays outside for a hardening off period, first put them in indirect sunlight for just a few hours a day, then move them into direct sunlight for a few hours a day, then leave them in the direct sunlight for a few days and then they should be ready to transplant...

Hi, I'm by no means a gardening expert, but I do use lights to propagate cuttings and divisions ok. Once when I was researching bulb setups/wavelengths in the "Light Forum" here, I came across a thread from someone with your complaint: No new topgrowth of seedling.

What I recall people saying is that topgrowth under lights isn't what you want; you want roots first and foremost. Have you taken one out to see how the roots are doing? If roots are not doing well, you might want to troubleshoot over at the Lighting Forum. Great group of knowledgeable light people. If roots are doing great, you are doing it right.

my starts, I get enough starts (green heads) that poke
out from the dirt, if I water I see tons more sprouts.
My starts are "frozen in time". I put then in am sun,
but they still are frozen. They were in all day sun.

what do I do?

Try a little weak fertilizer the next time you bottom water. You mentioned you started the plants in fertilizer free mix. At this stage, 6 weeks later, they may be ready for some fertilizer, as the seeedlings have used up pretty much everything that was contained in the actual seed. This happened to me this year, and once I gave them a shot of weak (1/4 strength) miracle grow in the water, they took off like gangbusters. Hope this helps.