Hey Brian, Thank you, and thank you for stopping by.
Yeah it's 7 and a half weeks since they popped above the ground. But this are Autos so they grow a lot faster then a regular photoperiod plants, they only veg for about 14 days and then they automaticly switch to flowering stage without changing the light cycle.
As for the light cycle I had them under 18/6 thru out the whole grow since they popped from the ground. I germ them straight in the soil, and for the nutes I didn't use any until they were around 2 and half weeks old, and I started of with 1/4 straenght of what they say on the bottle and I worked my way up, but you will learn to tell when and if your plants need anything. And I only used Fox Farm Big Bloom and FF Tiger Bloom, so that took care of my N-P-K situation. Same goes for the water, in time you will be able to tell by just picking up your pot if your plants need water or not.
And near harvest time like next time around I'll be watering my plants with water only till the harvest + I'll be flushing the plant's at around 14 days before chop chop time.
As for the pot size, like they say the bigger the better
mine are in 3 gal so that's def makes a big difference in a plants size, the roots has more space to spread out and grow bigger, bigger roots = bigger plant = bigger yields.
If I missed anything just hit me
and for now have a nice and "sunny" day