Good Evening! I was hoping that you might be able to give me some advice about dahlias. I started some dahlias from seed on April 7th in a soil-less starting mix and have since potted them up into peat pots with Miracle Grow Potting Mix. Half are Unwin's Dwarf (Ferry-Morse) and the other half are the Victoriana Mix from Burpee. I have been hardening them off to put them in a small flower bed in front of my town house, but I've come across two problems. The leaves of the dahlias seem to be losing their color. The first true leaves of a couple of them turned completely white so I cut them off. One dahlia that I originally thought was stunted is the only one that has kept its dark green color. I also kept it under the small grow light when I moved the others to a larger grow light. The larger grow light seems to be weaker and the dahlias became leggy after that. The leaves are still fading slowly. I am not sure if I need to fertilize more, water more, water less, or throw them out and try something else. I have included pictures - one photo of the white leaves before I cut them off (about a week ago) and one from today. (I tried uploading both, but it only lists one, so both may not have went through.) The other issue is that the flower bed has tiny red spider mites running all around the soil and the concrete blocks around it. I've been blasting the concrete with the jet setting on the hose and keeping the soil wet to discourage them from staying but they don't seem to be going away yet. Any advice on either issue would be very much appreciated! Thank you so much, Brittany C.