beginner grow

The photos show a span of two weeks, so they may not be in order. Who said this shizzle was easy.... man have I had a stressed out grow, as its my first I have invariably made loads of errors, but I finally now start to see flowers forming, the plants all look healthy though with a nice field of green, i think due to the cold, a bit of overwatering and general lack of knowledge I will be happy if I can get my money back for my investment on equipment. The plants have gone through changes in this last 2 weeks though, as they were trained to remain small ahem, (overtrimmed), lol, at the beginning of the two weeks I was having problems trying to LST them, the main branches were so thick and short that I could barely bend anything in fact breaking several smaller stems, ffs, but over the course of the fortnight they grew sufficiently to allow me to bend more easily, I have tried to LST consistently just to try to keep the canopy at the same height. I downloaded the Canna feed schedule for my respective setup and am gonna try to stick to that a bit tighter. According to my diary I have about 5 weeks left until the end so I am really interested to see what I end up with, I try to glean information out of the guys at my local grow shop, is like getting blood out of a stone and when you do, the difference in opinion is so vast lol. I have tried to not over water, I have tried to measure my nutrient perfectly, I have checked my PH consistently, I have bought a ppm meter, I have monitored daily and I guess the reward is seeing what comes at the end. I have cracked a few new seeds too, going to persist with this as I am enjoying the process, 3 blueberry OG and 3 purple lemonade, all auto flower, thought I would try to make my life a bit easier, only 6 plants next time, the are already at sprout height, single shoot, small green leaves, 2 weeks I think. 9 was optimistic last time, I have had to keep everything small and seriously trimmed to stop it taking over, I have lots of bud sites all the same level now and will continue to train as such, possibly introducing some HST towards the end, but going forward I am seriously thinking about a Wilma dripper system or super soil, according to the guys on my fav shop "The super soil is wicked yeah, you just plant it, water it and you don't need anything else and its natural", " The Wilma system is the nuts, it just drip feeds your shit constant, innit". I am blessed as much as I take the piss that we do get on and as time has progressed they are all too happy to show me photos of their grow on the phone, I gotta say, impressive, both the Wilma and the super soil method, I don't want to be greedy, I just want to make my life as easy as possible whilst enjoying the process of growing. I can get 2 super soil container in my tent, maybe 3 but at a recommended 45l about £42 for pot and soil assuming nothing else required, no nutrients etc,,,, it don't matter what size the pots or how many its all based of wattage per metre anyway so makes no difference other than to the judge..... Check in soon........