Looks good HR, that J1 is a nice upbeat strain. What's the early flower I see in the background?
Good eye slow drawl! Other than the two J1's, everything else this year is an experiment in autos, which will all finish before the rains come. So far they are flowering roughly in two waves, the earliest came down mid-July and the rest of that group will be down by mid-August. The one you can see in the background is a huge (for an auto) Blueberry, part of the second group, which will probably finish around the first week in September. It's about 5.5' tall, almost twice the size of the next biggest auto I have going.
I guess all autos are ruderalis & sativa/indica hybrids, so they vary in how much the ruderalis (auto) traits show up. There seems to be some more photo-leaning strains in the hybrid mix -- they are not as fast as the quickest autos to finish, but they are significantly bigger and produce much more. That does not mean they have more THC, those characteristics seem to be separate genes, I've seen very small very potent autos as well.
Auto breeding is still evolving, and in my very limited experience they have not stabilized yet. The Blueberry I grew last summer out of the same bag of seeds was 1/3 the size of this one, so while this big one is in the range of a 'normal anomaly' its nothing you can plan on. It actually caused me some problems because it shaded out several plants that were planted (what turned out to be) too close to it.
I've read a lot of people say that autos are great for beginners because you don't have to worry about light cycles, but I think they actually require more care. Since they are on (for the most part) a pre-defined growth period, anything that interrupts that will impact their overall potential. An example is the very cold wet spring we had. There was a warm week, I put them all out, and then we had about 3 weeks of cold overcast weather -- the impact varied between strains but some were irrevocably stunted, they simply lost several weeks of critical veg growth time that could not be made up for later. Additionally, I don't spray after flowers start showing up and even though many of my plants stopped getting bigger during that cold spell, they still matured anyway. The net result was that I was not able to spray them for worms, and most of them got hit pretty badly.
After this season, I'm probably going to take a break from outdoor grows unless I can build a true greenhouse. I think I'd keep experimenting with the latest autos, but they'd be behind screens and out of the reach of moths.
LOL... hope that wasn't too long an answer, I tend to ramble while I'm drinking my morning coffee...