Need second opinion

Looking nice mate, I don't see any obvious issues. On the left is a bruce banner auto at 3 weeks (germed over xmas weekend) I've got going, shes my biggest of this lot, and I've been at this for a few years, so I'd say for a first time grow your certainly on the right track for week 5.

Lot better than my first plants!

Only advice I'd give is that the plant should start "stretch" soon, so make sure you have pre-planned your grow area and training / topping method (if any) to accommodate them as they can shoot up pretty quickly.

I wasn't prepared for how quick autos can stretch sometimes, left my grow area for about a week for work and come back to this (top right plant) The bottom right auto I was able to catch in time and top.

Both plants produced about 100 grams dried, I just personally find them much easier to manage and work around by keepping them squat and dense. Lots of folks out here though do much better with different methods, but my first time with autos I got caught off guard by the quickness of stretch, just thought it might be a good heads up to give you. Apologies if you were already aware, but that top right auto I Iet grow wild ended up having a 4 foot long main stem by the time she was finished..

 

Not bad, I think you should top it now, because I don't see any white hair's yet.
That will kick in your side growth. Good luck.

 

Here's one 25 days old that was topped

 

I am growing my first Auto. I decided not to do anything. It would have benefited from LST and some light training. Avoid transplanting if you can, I stated mine in too small of a pot.

 

If you want more out of it, top it now. I'm surprised at 5 weeks there is no pistols showing yet, you sure it's a auto.

 

5 gallon pot is good to start it in, that's what I do.
A Lot of auto's will show signs of sex around 30 days or so.
I top mine auto's at the 4th or 5th node on day 19 usually.
As far as LST you don't have any thing to train right now that's why I said top it now and get those side branches to start growing.
Then you can do LST once they get long enough to tie down.
On a good grow I usually get 6 o/z per auto plant. The most I got was 24o/z + that was from fast buds and it was gelato. And three plants
But you can check out my grow journal on auto's and see but if it was mine I would top it.

 

When did you transplant? I start all my autos in tiny pots due to space. Grow them outside but start in a 3x3 or 4x4 with vegging photos, Cant fit 8-12, 5 gallon pots in a 3x3. Average 4-6oz, with all weed but autos especially genetics plays a large part in final outcome.

I don't train besides some light cropping inside the tent to help light penetration on lower sites to help them shoot up before going outside. If solely growing indoors would probably do more

 

Looks green to me,
But I guess the color green really doesn't exist ?
Does the color green exist : r/AskPhysics - reddit
Green is the reflected wavelength around 550nm and that's the light that you see, red and blue are the absorbed wavelengths that the object gets rid of. When you shine white light on an object, the red and blue components of the light are absorbed and what's left is the green, so the object appears green. Any color on the outer curved edge of this diagram are made with single wavelengths and pure green is among those colors.

 

A auto is going to flower weather you over water it or not, will just stunt the growth. Feed when the pot feels lite. I also feed my plants from the start. Good luck you will learn what to do on this one for the next one.

 

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If you continue to have issues watering and plant growth, adding quite a bit more perlite will help. 25-30%