@Davyg That’s amazing, and it’s crazy how much they can come back from! It sounds like they can be brought back from the brink of almost anything, hopefully we haven’t reached the point of rot with ours. It’s hard to see in the picture but that yellowed one is actually sprouting some tiny new growth, so we hope this is a good sign? Should we trim away leaves that turn yellow, the way you did?
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It amazed me when they came back so they are really resilient. At that stage just leave them. The leaves I trimmed back were of no use whatsoever to my plants. Your seedlings don’t need any more stress right now so less is more
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@Davyg will do, we’re trying to be as hands-off as possible right now. It may be worth noting that we also have neem oil and know how to use it, we treated our fungus gnat problem with it (which has all but disappeared ever since) - could this be used to battle any kind of rot problems we might have, or should we just leave it out of the picture for now?
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@DragonQueen Forgive me if u already know this and its an obvious tip, but. . .to decrease transplant shock- fill the new/bigger pot with the soil u are using, then take your seedling in its little pot/dixiecup and use that, push it down in the new dirt to make a hole the exact size of the little pot or dixiecup. Sprinkle the hole with Mycos. Then put the seedlings stem between two fingers to support it, tip over the cup and gently slide the whole thing out and place it in the hole. Add some soil up to the cotyledons if u want. Thats all, dont do anything else to the plant for a couple days.
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Neem oil is good for bugs. The best treatment I have found for rot is to avoid it all together 
I do that with my seedlings @Tenga but didn’t know about the Mycos bit 
. Off for a google now
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Mycorrhizae is the full word for mycos.
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@Tenga I was aware of the Mycorrhizae, just didn’t make the connection, I can be a bit numb sometimes 
. What I do know now is just how beneficial they are to us as a species and also to us as gardeners. Got to love google
And I just call it Mycos cuz I cant remember the longer word or how to spell it!! Lol (thank goodness for google!!)
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@Tenga have heard of this! Is Mycorrhizae something that should be added in every grow, or just to aid with transplanting?
I use it every time I transplant. It really helps the roots grow.
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@DragonQueen Sorry you are having so many issues with your new ladies. Its all part of the learning process, and if I could recommend anything, it would be less is more. I have grown many auto flowers and started them in the finishing container. They cannot stand be transplanted as they are like a Formula 1 race car from the day the sprout. Auto flowers don’t allow much time to correct mistakes, so eliminating transplanting is a good thing.
One recommendation that I might make is when you mix your soil for them, try doing it in a tote or a wheel barrel. What you want to do is mist the soil and mix, and repeat, until you have a well moistened media. Place your seed in the hole, and cover with a dome, or solo cup or any container that will act as a mini greenhouse. I like to soak my seeds first, but not until they crack, only about a day, and then I pop the in the hole cover with soil and dome, and don’t touch.
One thing I forgot to add is that when pre moistening your media, you want you get it good and moist, but not to the point that if you were to grab a handful and squeeze it, water would come running out. You’ll see, just mist it and mix mist it an mix until it feels good to you.
Seedlings don’t really need to be watered maybe lightly misted from time to time if the soil you have planted in has the appropriate amount of moisture. Think about the amount of liquid a baby drinks in comparison to an adult… When you do finally begin watering just water a small area around the seedling not the entire pot. Overwatering is a very common mistake. Even if soil looks visibly dry to you, if you take your finger and stick into soil up to your first digit and it comes out and has some moist soil on it, all is good. That seedling shoots a taproot way down, so what you might see on the surface of the soil as being dry is most likely not the case down below.
As far as your light is concerned, all light manufacturers should have literature with proper heights that lights should be above the plant canopy. When I first purchased my Kind Led 600 I read the manufacturers suggested heights and went with the highest height first and then began lowering each day a couple of inches until I found a sweet spot. All strains are different and respond to light differently and you will just need watch and see what your girls like.
Good luck, and hope things turn around for you!! Don’t get discouraged, just read, read, read, and observe. Keep things simple and don’t try and do too much on your first grow and you might be surprised with the results in the end!!
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You can amend your soil with it when you first begin your grow. In my other response to you I suggested mixing soil in a wheelbarrow. Its like making a cake, mix all of your ingredients together. I might like to recommend insect frass. Look at frassvalley.com 
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Thanks so much, this is so useful! Saving this to refer to on our next grow, we have some more auto seeds to get through so knowing best practice with them would be really handy. “Less is more” has definitely been our key takeaway from this grow. We thought we would have to dote over them, especially in the beginning, but that was probably our biggest mistake! Being much more relaxed nowadays and hoping they come around.
Definitely going to to the whole process in a big container next time. We’re low on space, we’re actually in a very cramped part of Sydney, Australia and our outdoor space is limited, but we’ll have to find a way. We also considered pre-soaking and were talked out of it 
So much learning going on, though.
Thanks again for your kind words and advice
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@DragonQueen I use 3 gallon fabric pots for my autos. GeoPots to be exact, which I find to be very well constructed and can be used multiple times. One thing if you are using liquid nutes, would be to wash the pots thoroughly after your harvest with an all natural soap and warm water, and hang to dry. Presoaking in my opinion is ok, but once they crack open you have this delicate sprout you need to then get into the soil, and it can easily become damaged. I like to think of it the same way as I do for all of my vegetables…I plant my seeds directly into the soil and do not soak them first. Seeds are actually very hardy little things and contain their own small amounts of nutrients to help them begin their growth. Glad my words helped you a bit, and make sure to HAVE FUN!!
Cheers