Live Stoner Chat Convince me, why I should grow Photo's instead of Auto's?

[GreenBean]

Wow!

Your plants are looking nice!

 

[7.62]

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[GreenBean]

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Is it legal to grow outdoors where you are?

 

[7.62]

No

 

[7.62]

No I have a few gorilla growing. By the looks of them, it'll be fall when the are done

 

[7.62]

I may have to get one of those nets for my grow area

 

[7.62]

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[LabRat]

For indoors I prefer photos. Power is expensive here so 2 months at 12/12 with a bigger yield is cheaper that 2 months of 18/6 or more.

I have 9 autos outside this year as I'm way up in northern Bumf**k Alberta and photos don't have time to finish before the snow flies. If I grow them inside it will mainly be for breeding to get more seeds to grow outside again.

 

[AutoDevilHQ]

Good day Growers thought I'd jump in on this as I've always grown autos and weighed up pros and cons of both a few times.

Photoperiod Pros
Full Control Over Veg Period to fill grow space
Wider Variety of Strains
Freedom to cross breed

Photoperiod Cons

Seed to harvest time
Take 4-6 weeks to determine gender so can waste time
Cannot do perpetual grows in one space

Autoflower Pros
Fast harvests
Grow Perpetually
Low maintenance
Higher chance of feminised

Autoflower Cons
No control over vegetation
Harder to cross breed
Less Variety

Hopefully this helps someone decide somewhere down the line that Autoflowers are king mwuhahaha

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[Olderfart]

For indoors I prefer photos. Power is expensive here so 2 months at 12/12 with a bigger yield is cheaper that 2 months of 18/6 or more.

I have 9 autos outside this year as I'm way up in northern Bumf**k Alberta and photos don't have time to finish before the snow flies. If I grow them inside it will mainly be for breeding to get more seeds to grow outside again.

I was going to mention the climate thing. As in, by the time 12 hour daylight happens here (central BC), temperatures and daylength are declining so quickly, not to mention crappier wetter weather becoming more frequent, that photos have bloody little chance of finishing flowering before temperatures shut them down if the mold doesn't do it first. I may try photos indoors, but any outdoor plants will be autos for me. If you don't have the climate to finish a photoperiod's flower time after they switch, outdoor photos will not work well if at all.