My very first grow. Auto and photo

OK so this is my first grow and I just kinda want to talk about it and give updates on it and whatnot I'm growing 4 (nirvana freebie seeds) in soil that only consists of MG Organic and plain perlite 75/25 mix (I know MG is not good but at least I tried to get organic I know that don't help too much but resources are slim) I have a swiss cheese autoflower in a 5gal bucket running between 5.5-6.0 pH with two Aquarium air pumps with stones. For nutes I'm using technaflora recipe for success kit + Mammoth P microbes for stem health bud increase and all that good stuff. My tent is a 32" 32" 63" running a 400w HPS light, 1 4" intake fan and a 230cfm carbon filter + blade fans. My plan is to keep my auto and photos on a 18/6 schedule until my auto flowers. While I wait for the auto to finish I'll be playing with the photo periods in the soil and LST them,top them,super crop ect. The very day I harvest my auto I'm going to instantly switch my photos to 12/12 and figure out there sex so I can weed out the males and just go from that point on until they finish.

Hey. I'm 3 weeks into my first grow. 4 autos. I'm a noob but I can tell you what everyone has told me. If you're using a premix soil there are enough nutes in it to last 3 weeks to a month. And then the watering thing. Know what a bone dry pot feels like because that's when you'll water next time. Not before. They don't like it.
I've been told that the first 3 weeks are the worst (with autos anyway and it's true) because it's all going in under the surface. Then at 3 weeks BOOM. It's pretty cool.
And don't fuck around with them too much. Just leave them be and let them do their thing.
Good growing!

Chef420 said:

Hey. I'm 3 weeks into my first grow. 4 autos. I'm a noob but I can tell you what everyone has told me. If you're using a premix soil there are enough nutes in it to last 3 weeks to a month. And then the watering thing. Know what a bone dry pot feels like because that's when you'll water next time. Not before. They don't like it.
I've been told that the first 3 weeks are the worst (with autos anyway and it's true) because it's all going in under the surface. Then at 3 weeks BOOM. It's pretty cool.
And don't fuck around with them too much. Just leave them be and let them do their thing.
Good growing!

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Thanks man! I'm actually doing my auto in a DWC setup I know I'm jumping the gun with doing that but I'm pretty damn sure I have what it takes to accept the challenges that will come with DWC but I'm very interested in doing hydro and nothing else once I have a few grows under my belt. Got to learn through trial and error so why not start now? Lol