I just wanted to do a follow-up post for the first time growers out there:

It's three months later and two out of three turned out to be female. They're in week seven of flowering now and I'm starting to see some amber trichomes. For flowering I got a 150W HPS and I kept using the four 39W T5s(6400K) as well as four 40W soft white CFLs. I've been using Botanicare Pro Bloom for Soil, Liquid Karma, and blackstrap molasses.

I just wanted to write this for any first timers like me who worry about their plants not growing that fast or that big at first. They'll catch up. You can grow nice plants with a modest, half-assed, improvised-on-the-fly setup like mine! Recently I had to stake them up because the buds were getting too heavy.

So, in conclusion, don't worry too much. Just do your best, give it time, and have fun. Oh, and watch your pH.

Thanks for reading.