Novice growers need your input. ADVICE PLEASE!

Hello RIU world! My fiancé and I are fairly new growers. We're on our first grow( well technically our 2nd because Stella, our very first baby who was illegally confiscated by our hometown PD). All the seeds that we used were we're randomly picked from unknown flowers mostly all nugs. We figured we don't want to start with some good strains until we know what we're doing.
We now have 9 plants, tota all in vegetive state.
When we started everything we had 2-100W Helical CFLs. We used these until we planted some more seeds and then had 5 more seedlings on top of the 4 in vegetation. We were goIng to add two more of the cool/blue 100W CFLs, but decided to go with something a little bigger. We now have 2-200W CFLs putting out 3860 lumens along with the original two 100W. Oh and along with the CFLs we have had 2-75W Flourecent Plant Lights(cheaply acquired from Walmart). We have had them on 24 hour light since they were seedling. We water about every other day and fertilize with water about once a week with Miracle Grow All Purpose Plant Food 24-8-16.


Here's a befOre and after of our setup
Before and After

I was just hoping that some people who know more about this tha we do can give us a little input on our lighting.
I don't know if these new 200W are too much of different spectrum to effectively work together.
Please help us out. All and any advice/critism will be much appreciated.
P.S.
Attached are pics of our 1 month old and 2 week old plants. Let us know what you think!!

do not use miricale grow all purpose That stuff is no beuno, for starters in veg go to homedepot or lowes and pick up Alaska Fish Emulsion, and that will give you a month to decide what type of flower nute to use, BTW the Fish stuff wont burn plants, go with one teaspoon per gallon and slowly work up to 1 tablespoon per gallon , flush before you start using flower nutes, also go to your local organic grocery store and pick up some BlackStrap Molasses There are plenty of Flower nutes to choose form, also put all those lights to use, your going to need them. look up on youtube on topping and LST. Those plant should be bigger for their age, more light will make them grow alot bigger and stronger, add a rotating fan to blow right above the cannopy and right under the lights

Thanks for the advise! We actually just finished topping all of the older plants. Do you think that these lights I described will be sufficient? Especially ring that the 2 are of different spectrums?
Heres what the plants look like as of now:

im using 3 of the 200's right now... they are really 55 watts... the thing is the color temp is 2700k.. they do well with flowering but get yourself some 6500k's for vegging. other then that all your other lights are kosher, just switch out them nutes with some 20-20-20

also.... nice mustang 5.0

stop watering so much and stop feeding until they are bigger, imo. 9 plants would need a lot more light. pick out 4 stars, and grow them. again.......imo.

Lcscott318 said:

Thanks for the advise! We actually just finished topping all of the older plants. Do you think that these lights I described will be sufficient? Especially ring that the 2 are of different spectrums?
Heres what the plants look like as of now:
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WEll its honestly personal preference on the mixed spectrum thing. Some people do it because its more convenient and you don't have to buy more bulbs, all you have to do is flip the timer, If your gonna grow them under lights, just leave them under lights, don't go back and forth from the window to lights, just let them be under the lights too keep stress down. IO personally use 6500k and 2700k along with some aquarium lighting, but like i said personal preference