Lol
I'm more than willing to take my chances with your advice lol. I do think I'm really lacking an understanding of both light and watering, but with what you've provided, it's helping fill in the gaps. Thanks for the info, I'll be looking through it this morning.
If I'm being completely honest about these autos, I'm not sure my light, temp, rh, water ph, or soil were proper to start. Because of trying to get them in the sun, they have suffered significant temperature fluctuations in this first week and definitely a lack of light. They just seem stunted, almost exactly as the ones I did in solo cups. If I had one guess as to why they seemingly stunted, it's because the recommendation was 24 inches from the rim of the cup to the light, and even though they emerged on day 4, and cotyledons developed, the first true set of leaves really struggled. I think both height and intensity were wrong to begin. Either that or my light sucks. Last year with same light, I got 6 regular durban poison seeds to sprout under that light, transplanted them outdoors later, and had a decent grow.
Although I'm still trying with the autos, I'm slightly turning my focus to my Big Bud fast version which seems to be doing ok here in day 5. I intend to place it outdoors in 7 gal pot when it's ready.
this was awesome!
I found 4 seeds from the last batch and was able to get 2 to pop and start growing. 
