Is it possible to fully automate my 4x4 grow tent to grow 4-5 female plants and what grow process guarantees optimal results for the soil method.
Experience.
Only fully automated is to plant a seed outside and walk away.
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Not good advice
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Well you asked for a Guaranteed method.
Everyone here is chasing that in a hundred different ways.
You have to monitor everything daily with an indoor grow.
So both questions have no real answer.
Not trying to be an A$$, There really is no definitive answers.
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@Ed @Spiney_norman I have a 4x4 Ac Infinity and im a over the road truck driver and i cant do a full auto …just using a timer on watering system is find if u dont run into a problem you would have to spend a lot of money on special plugs and wifi automation ! But yet and still you have to at least be around to manage your equipment Spiney_norman is right nothing like Oldschool management
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So I checked your other topics and see you are just starting.
So keep it simple. Use one cannabis friendly soil for all your plants. Dont mix it up trying different ones at the same time. Fox Farms Happy Frog is great to start.
Pick a nutrient line that’s not complicated. Fox Farms Trio is very popular. 3 part system with a feeding chart to follow.
Or a dry line like Jacks 321. 3 dry ingredients with the same formula all the way through.
Every one of your plants may be different from the others. Its not uncommon to have to deal with a nutrient or pH problem on one but not the others. Each plant even if its seed from the same plant will grow differently. Sometime minor variations sometimes big ones. Start a grow journal and let the community kibitz along the way. You will learn a ton this first grow.
Cheers.
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Your right @Spiney_norman.
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Look into autopots with a big reservoir
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If you are married can try a living soil. Then wife just waters and watches. As automatic as probably gonna get.
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Looks great.
Bubba kush on the left and purple Dream on the right! Im still learning and holding my breath but I started out with feminized seeds i have some small ones too! Im under a viper spectrum blurple light 300w ! But Thursday i get my 600w Chilled light i been waiting on for 60days finally here I should see a bigger difference under that one!
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You are 100% right bro! Doesn’t matter how many wifi timers you have or how many inkbird outlets and probes connect to everything. Indoors is always hands on. I haven’t found an automated nute measuring and mixing device either 
Trust me. I’ve searched countless hours to remove my hands and thinking from my grow. Not gonna happen.
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Thanks alot!
@Ed Automated indoor, can’t help you there without a big expense as others have alluded to.
I’m going to do a proof-of-concept outdoor automated system this summer for some guerilla grows outside next year. Basically, get a grow bag (I plan on using coffee bean sacks), put 4" of lava rocks in the bottom, get 4 or 5 pieces of 1/4" cotton wicking material and bury an end of each into the lave rocks. Fill with FF soil or one that has enough nutes to last the plant mostly to harvest.
I have an old rabbit’s cage bottom, about 6" deep, probs 14" wide and 40" long. Fill it with water and put a plant at each end (I’ll be using autoflowers for this). Then I plan on filling the tub up as it gets low, flushing out the water if it gets stagnant. IF this self-watering system works, next year the bags won’t go into the cage, but will be floated on pallets in a creek or a pond or lake up in the hills. If it doesn’t self-water, guess I’ll be hand watering them like the ones in my tent, no biggie except my idea would need refinement (or scrapping altogether, hence proof-of-concept!).
This way I can put them out in June when they are a few weeks old and let them go until late August and they should be ready! Just 2 this year in my back yard, but next year it could be 10 or 20 if I can find a remote enough location. Another advantage to floating plants, deer won’t get at them!