Growing setup help. Hydro or soil?

Hi i am planning on growing soon and need help. I just bought this grow box it is 3ft tall. It has 3cfls, each is equal to 100 watts. I'm planning on growing 8 feminised autoflowering strains.I want to maximize my yields, should I grow eight small plants or 1 big plant considering the tote containers size. Should I upgrade to a bigger tote? Should I go soil. I have six 1liter super roots air pots, and 1 pot thats around 1-2gallons. If I grow 1 plant would it be best in my hydro setup from picture or in the 1-2 gallon pot I have for soil? Also i am probably gonna add 3 more CFLs in there. Please help.

If it was me, for a first grow, I would do one seed in soil to get the basics down.
Nice box though.

Agree with Bakatare - start in soil and learn to read the plant.

what is your actual watts?

Soil or coco is good for beginners.

grow in soiless peat promix or sunshine number 4 with 40% coarse perilite added and a tablespoon per gallon powdered dolomite lime added and get more actual 26 watt cfl's and just one or two plants

for nutes keep it simple

try this
http://www.dyna-gro.com/

I recommend Grow and Protekt

good luck!

brewing up said:

what is your actual watts?

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100w plan on adding 100 more, each bulb is 26watts equal to 100watts.

Fazer1rlg said:

Soil or coco is good for beginners.

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6 small plants in 1liter superoots airpots or 1 big plant in 2 gallon pot?

I would do one plant lst style and use a 250w hps in a cool tube you will have much better yield than with cfl's

Always start with soil...

Most autos grow to be about 1.5'-2' tall. So Even though this is your first grow I would try to grow at least 3-4 plants. As long as you start in a seed starting mix and wait three weeks before feeding you should be fine. I rarely see people kill from over watering anymore. Just in case remember to lift container, water, lift container again. Don't add water until 50% dry.