[jmystro]

Your pH and mineral buffer is out of range for sure as 40% perlite is way too much to use in a mix with Grow Dots. Your not growing in soil at this point when your mix is half inert. Perlite has no ability to hold nutrition so your growing media can’t hold on to much of the slow release nutrition Grow Dots are providing. When you water, you’re just washing out minerals as they have little soil to stick to. Your mix is more for cyclical top feed or flood and drain hydroponic systems. They look under watered as the media is probably drying out too fast with that much drainage. There is no fix when you start wrong. Sorry.