It’s easier regarding the extra work you have to do growing with salt based chemical fertilizers like always checking ph and ppm in and water to run off and checking that again for ph ppm.
There are places you can buy premade water only super soil if you want easy and organic living soil.
Here are a few
Kind Soil
Build a Soil
Michigan Water only soil
Purple cow
And more out there.
You could also buy a premix and use the ocean Forrest (you’ll use the OF for most of the above too as a base soil)
I found this premix the other day and will be doing a few plants to try it out…
You can also now or down the road buy the individual organic nutrients that you would mix into the base soil (OF) etc that would add enough nutrients for the entire grow and again most are set up to just add water within a certain PH range.
The whole idea growing like Mother Nature intended (outside) is that the critters in the soil need to eat…they eat the nutrients and poop that out and that is now bioavailable to the plants to use.
I use RO water so I don’t check PH as there isn’t enough ppm (solids) in RO or distilled water. If running tap water I run through a filter to remove chlorine or if not filtered let it sit for 12-24 hours or bubble in a bucket for a couple hours to off gas the chlorine.
Do a search on this site for growing organic etc etc many sources of info to look through
And what hell raiser is asking is that Autoflower are less tolerant of early issues whereas Photo period seeds you dictate the time they go into flower and you’ll want good strong healthy plants before you change light hours so if something happens you have time to correct before entering the flowering stage.