What do these pic tell an experienced eye?

I’m newer to growing anything that needs care. I grew some tomatoes inside once and they seem tough to kill

This plant is a ghost og auto and I have tried it outside and almost had it die 3 times. Brought it inside a week ago. It has really grown. But now droops.

Idk. It looked more perky 2days ago.

Vpd has been between .8 and 1.2. The chart shows it.

The pics are greener= grow light off, shop lights on.
paler= grow light.

The lights is a spider farmer sp2000 turned all the way up.

It looks sad and like it hates your grow light being on full power.

Oh, I can turn that down I thought maybe it was fear from my meddling fingers that had it looking like that

Combination of adjusting to the light and wet soil.

Soil looks really wet, bottom of the pot has algae to confirm that. You could probably go a week without watering it. Wait 5 days at least and see how she’s looking. Lift the pot every day to get use to the weight

Roy O'Bannon said:

Oh, I can turn that down I thought maybe it was fear from my meddling fingers that had it looking like that

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Aye like nuttyskunk said water a bit less

I turned the light down to 75-80% where it started noticeably dimming.
I did water yesterday, to runoff in case it was some issue with that. It was droopy looking then, but it was also a very light bag. I have had that peat dry out on me. I felt I had to water even with a wet looking plant the soil was dry.

The lights, I never considered the intensity of those, except to make sure of the distance of 24".

I might have needed to mix some extra pearlite in that soil or not have it in that bag. I haven't used one before for a full grow.

Roy O'Bannon said:

I turned the light down to 75-80% where it started noticeably dimming.
I did water yesterday, to runoff in case it was some issue with that. It was droopy looking then, but it was also a very light bag. I have had that peat dry out on me. I felt I had to water even with a wet looking plant the soil was dry.

The lights, I never considered the intensity of those, except to make sure of the distance of 24".

I might have needed to mix some extra pearlite in that soil or not have it in that bag. I haven't used one before for a full grow.

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The key with soil growing is keeping it in a moisture happy window. Especially peat.

You also need to factor in strain/phenotype preferences. Some don’t mind a really wet cycle some hate it. Same with dry cycle

Trouble is weighing very light to you may not be to another… it’s subjective.

Did you pre moisten the soil prior to planting? It’s very important with autos on large final containers in fabric pots. Otherwise the edges dry out too fast.

She looks healthy enough just not happy with the wet/dry cycle and possible the light too if she looked perkier outdoors

Yeah, I had to mix the water into the soil by hand, took a while. Had a big mess in a 5 gal bucket.

It was dry, that 3 gallon bag took a half gallon of water/feed and didn't run off, took another half gallon to get some run off.

Feeding pretty light, 200 ppm, half of that is my water.

I kept having to move it around outdoors or try to keep it from drying out. Then I would find little critters eating on it...
Once Summer ( with the big S ) hit, it got over 100 and 30-40 RH. I had to bring it in, it was just melting.

Looks like she doesn’t like big wet/dry cycles. 1 gallon of water/feed in a 3 gallon is too much for a plant that size. Even an established plant I find takes just over 1/2 gallon every 2 days in a 3 gallon pot.

If I were you I’d wait a few days until it’s dry but not too dry and water it with 1/2 gallon. Forget about run off at the moment if your input is lower than the soil EC

It looks better now after these 7 hrs or so of the sun being turned down.

I have tried a slurry test, always get wonky numbers. It's new soil/ medium. Its ( Berger BM7 bark mix specifically ) and hasn't been watered with nutes before this plant.
I do plan on waiting for it to be dry again before I water. I will take your advice on not dumping a whole gallon on it.

I really wanted to be able to leave it outside where plants seem to do just fine without me