Still Stuck, Stuck, Stuck, Stuck..........

How many people give up before they start? or give in to fish cycling or go mental  . i've got tourrettes now and cry with frustration after each test is done. Day 26 and Ammonia still shows a lovely shade of 2.00 ppm green. I did the 50% water change last Sat and dosed Ammo up to 3.00ppm (well i think i did, beginning to doubt everything now) so it went down to 2.00 by the Monday, and again there it sits. It did seem to drop when i did a 25% water change on day 17 but i assume that was just because it was diluted water. I can's ask my LFS because they are against fishless cycling so i am made to feel like a idiot who should have bought fish by now (only takes a few days with fish they said) So i guess i need to keep waiting and perhaps find a new hobby. 

Thanks for the reply, i do have a bottle of "Waterlife Bacterlife" but have resisted using it as im trying to follow Sue's Ammonia only method, which does seem to be giving me lots of Ammonia and nothing else lol (well i have 2.00 ppm Nitrite too) Does NITRATE testing come into the equation at all? cos i haven't done that since day one. Thought i'd include full log of frustrating readings so far

I have 90 lt tank with about 88lts in it. i have sm/med natural gravel with a large resin tree root ornament and a few plastic aquatic plants, and two new real plants. i have a aquarium bought rock and a couple of pebbles out of garden (boiled and cleaned) Did have some Mopani root in for a few days, it produces lots of furry jelly like bacteria that is still in tank.
This is my tank log so far.
Day 1 tested tap water  Ammo = 0.25 Nitrite= 0 Nitrate =0
Day 2 added 2.5ml Ammonia so lever up to 3.00 ppm
Day 5 tested    Ammo = 1.0  Nitrite = 0.50
Day 8  Ammo =0.50  Nitrite = 2.00 so added 2.5 ml Ammonia again to get up to 3.00 ppm again
Day 10 Ammo - 2.00 Nitrite = 2.00
Day 17 same so did 25% water change  Ammo = 1.00  Nitrite = 2.00
Day 20 did 50% water change Ammo 0.50 Nitrite 2.00 so added 1.50 ml Ammoniaup to 3.00 ppm again
Since then Ammo has been 2.00 and Nitrite has been 2.00 and its day 26

Thank you fishcake, patience is not one of my few virtues, but neither is animal cruelty so no worries there.

It's weird how your cycle keeps stalling. The only thing I could think of was dechlorinator not working???  Filter is in tank and running? Not broken down? Heater working?
By your stage I was testing nitrates too, but only out of interest. (I'm a science geek so drew a graph of my readings!) Might be worth testing it to see if much has been produced?

Ammonia converts to nitrite, converts to nitrate.
So increasing nitrate levels tells you your nitrite is converting to nitrate, the end product of the cycle.
Whereas stable nitrate level not much higher than in your tap water says nothing is happening to the nitrite.

Well my initial test of tap water with API read as Ammo = 0.25  Nitrite =0 and Nitrate = 0 but i will test all again at weekend. Thanks all.

Thanks Fiona, i have wopped in a load of "Waterlife Bacterlife" bacteria, so not sure if that will affect readings, but im going to keep tabs over weekend, maybe do 50% water change again and see what happens next week. 

I wopped a load of "Waterlife Bacterlife" in yesterday and today i took readings, Ammo still 2.00 Nitrate 2-6? not sure
Nitrate 4.00 and Ph still a lovely shade of blue at 7.6 or more, so iv'e done an 80% water change this morning and will keep checking the rest of the week to see what if anything happens 

Read both, NITRITE 2-6? and NITRATE was 4.00 ppm

My tap water is 0.00 Nitrite  0.00 Nitrate and 0.25 Ammonia