So your 5 miles out to sea, jumped ship and now you want to learn to swim. I love it, I do everything that way. LOL. Your kind of committed now so I would stay the course to the end, autos dont mind the training at all and the few I have grown I topped them before I saw any pistils and that seemed to push out the flowering period to start at about 5 weeks so I had bigger plants. Since they are autos you can carve that into a sandy beach at low tide. For now go to Growweedeasy.com and read everything twice. Normally I think most growers that do a SOG use clones, one seed =100 + plants as apposed to 1 seed =$25 and hopefully one plant. Plus with clones you know more or less your plants are going to grow alike, autos are like a box of chocolates.

So welcome, you took the first step towards a fun hobby