My first grow!

So I joined this site a while ago with the intentions of growing, but realized that I was just far too busy. Flash forward to now, I have time to grow AND my medical marijuana recommendation (I live in California) so I figure it's about time to grow. This is my first grow and it's just some bag seed. I currently have 5 seedlings that I germinated and put in soil over the weekend. I'm happy to report that so far 3 plants have shed the seed, one is poking through and the last one I'm expecting to poke through the soil in the next day or two. I have them under a mixture of fluorescents and natural light. I put them outside from around 10-3 then inside under fluorescents for another 13 hours while I'm gone (I work afternoons/nights). Where I live it's bright and sunny and warm until almost the end of December so I figure I may as well at least use SOME natural light while I can. First pic is from yesterday, second and third are from today, and fourth is the six fluoro (homemade) ballast I'm using. I have them under 2 each of the following bulbs: "daylight" (3050 lumens, 6500K color temp), "sunshine" (2250 lumens, 5000k color temp), and "plant and aqarium" (1900 lumens, 3100K color temp, using them for their UVB output). I'm currently saving for an HPS ballast as well for flowering.

I'm currently using a combination of "seedling soil" (organic soil mixed with perlite and vermiculite) and organic soil with chicken manure in it. Nutes I'm going to be using are Growmore Orchid food (only nutes I could find that were even NPK, it's 20-20-20), for flowering I have Fox Farms Big Bloom.

Any input would be great, I spent a lot of time reading up on growing but nothing can be real experience.

Good luck with your grow. I wish it were sunny and warm here until December.

Heh, thanks. Today it was a high of 83, and tomorrow it's gonna be the same. I figure this should help them a lot.

Update: a few quick questions, this morning I went to check on them and one had still not poked through the soil, I moved over a small amount and saw that it had gone up and started to shed the seed, but didn't finish coming up, I've including a pic of it, should I leave it or is there no hope? It looks pretty unhealthy.

Also, when I put mine outside I angle the cups so they are directly facing the sun, is this a bad idea?

I've also included a high res pic of all 5 of my babies.

Update: Sadly, all but one have died. From what I read as long as the manure isn't added to the soil, but is already in there it won't burn the plants but apparently it's still bad for the seedlings. My last one is going strong but is starting to have small hints of yellow show up, so I'm not holding out much hope. Gonna just scrape together $45 or so for some perlite and vermiculite and start over I guess. Thank god I have around 20 seeds left.