Those are looking like full on Hermies!!!
Where did you get the Wedding Cake from?
@Purple-N-Hairy ran a pack from junk seed (seed junky) in which every single female hermied, and Purp’s setup is pretty dialed in.
You can find his thread… or better, here is the link…
So while your mix-up probably didn’t help any, it also was not the cause. Shitty breeder/breeding is the cause.
Regarding the auto’s, most people do plant directly into the pot they are going to finish in. This is because with auto’s the roots hitting the bottom of their pot is one of the triggers to start flowering.
However, I start my autos in small pots, then I do a pot-in-pot (stacked pots) up-potting before/just as roots start to grow out the bottom of the smaller 1st pot (the ones I use have a mesh bottom)
Here is an example from a male I just culled, this is a 3.25”x3.75” “waterdance” pot in a 1g square pot.
And the bottom of the 3.25” x 3.75” Waterdance pot, so you can see how the roots can just grow straight through the bottom and into the larger pot…
Hope it helps, YMMV,
