1st time growing anything

@Medsforme, No problem! And isn’t it amazing what us, the growers including you, have to do to keep these little fragile babies to become super big? Your plant has the potential to reach over a meter or two (if grown in full sunlight). Regular cannabis plants can reach more than 3 meters high. Well right now your plant is so new that you can fix a lot of things. But let me ask you, what’s your average day time temperature and night time temperature and how long is the sunlight? For auto flowers, the longer the sunlight, the better because the light/dark day cycle doesn’t affect the budding cycle. You’ve heard of 18/6 light to dark ratio vs 12/12 light to dark ratio to start budding? Well it doesn’t apply to auto flowers. So I’d recommend you giving light as much as you can. Some people do 20/4 light to dark ratio and others do 18/6 ratio on auto flowers. More darkness will equal less buds. For soil... soil is very important. Regular garden dirt isn’t going to cut it unless you make supersoil compost (like adding worm castings, plant food and such). If you have supersoil, you don’t have to feed them with fertilizers because you e already added them into your supersoil. But if not, you have to physically add it. Many growers use Fox Farm Ocean Forest Soil. It’s easy to use and cannabis friendly. But these kind of soil only has enough basic food for the plant for about 2 weeks and then you have to add fertilizer. Now if you’re wanting 100% organic, now that’s another story. Just to throw you an example and as a guidance, I’d start with fox Farm Trio fertilizer and it comes in 3 bottles. It should be something like Micro, Grow, Bloom. Each bottle has different stages of NPK. If you read manufactures’ recommended dose, it is very high. If it tells you to give 5 ml per gallon, you want to start probably around 1-2 ml per gallon and slowly go up. This is where your PPM (parts per million) or EC (electrical conductivity) meter comes in handy. Higher these number, you can say you have more nutrients in the water. So higher the number, higher the dose concentration. Let’s say, right now your plant is vegetating and needs a lot of nitrogen and potassium. In this state, if you have too much phosphorous, your plant will go into a nutrient lock. Too much of one element will prevent your plant from absorbing others. It’s like insulin and blood sugar. Without insulin, your cells won’t be able to utilize sugar in your blood, your sugar accumulates in the blood. Same concept. I used to think that as long as I give every thing the manufacture asked for, I’ll get good results. WRONG. This is where your experiences come in from growing. It is a lot of trial and error but you have to play with the nutrient doses and see how your plant responds to it. Example: if I give too much nutrients, how do I know if the plant isn’t liking it? Well the most obvious sign would be yellow burnt tip of your plant, that’s the first symptom of nute burn. Or, if I give too much nitrogen during flowering, my plant would be dark green. — things like this, you’ll learn from experience. Right now, you should be making a lot of trial and errors for your next plant and I promise your results get better and better. I had no one to reach me how to grow but this website was my cannabis bible. Www.growweedeasy.com It’ll tell you every thing you need to know. Don’t hesitate to ask questions. We like answering 😁

@MaryJaneUSA, hey there thank you for your message .. being an absolute beginner im starting to understand there is a LOT of science behind growing.. my pop a seed put in dirt and water the plant eveey now and then is prob not gonna yield anything significant lol. The soil i used is just dirt from the garden with a little compost and some perlite. Do i just bring them inside in the night to keep them warm (I can't give them any lights or anything inside). Thanks for the NPK info.. How do i measure it and correct it ? It's is amazing seeing them grow .. they change so much every day its really interesting to see. Thanks again for your help .. anymore pointers would be really appreciated

@Cannibalgardens, Gonna try the ladybug approach.. Will let you know how it goes