I dont think any one touched on the pot too small thing.
Your pot size is fine for most autos. That's def not an issue there. Like mentioned they do look super hungry though. No idea about putting autos out this late. You're SoL with photos this late in the season really.
Look into Korean natural farming and jadam. I say this because you get a completely different plant outside with all that sunlight the way nature intended.
Very yes.
You may not get the consistency and control you get with indoor flower. But the highest quality most satisfying flower from the biggest, happiest, most glowing plants, ive ever had, across the board, was all outdoor grown flower under real sunlight. You just can't always bank on quality like that when you are at the mercy of momma lol. A real good outdoor strain, with a real solid outdoor run though... Indoor flower cannot compete with that, even though 99% of the time, it is better then outdoor lol.
If you move even a thriving, totally happy and healthy plant from LED, to outside in real sunlight for just an hour a day. Within a week it wont even look like the same plant anymore. It'll be glowing by comparison lol. (just an example, i dont recommend that for pest reasons lol) But its something ive seen on every single plant ive ever weaned into sunlight from artificial light, and the most extreme difference is usually from LED to sunlight. A plant thriving indoors under LED, Vs thriving outdoors under sunlight, even if the same clone, might as well be a different strain entirely with many plants. Not always, but it's usually the case ime. That's the whole reason i even threw clones outside in KC at all while DWC or coco or living soils were chugging along inside. Completely different structure, terp profile, and high all together then indoor flower.
Usually a bigger difference then comparing flushed hydro flower to it's living soil organic counterpart tbh.