thanks matey! hopefully your tag will be enough! and to everyone else....
basically ive only ever grown autos...done a fair few runs now, tried red poisons (1st grow so went bad), blue kush (went much much better) then i did 3 bears og and orange cracks, then some chemdogging and stilton specials and a NCH....but ive always been disappointed with the taste and smell from the buds after they have been grown usually waiting till i get some amber heads as i prefer cloudy, i wet trim then dry them slowly for 7-10 days and cured for a month or two...they havent shown any deficiencies apart from a few little ones apart from my first couple of grows...i did have to flush at 4/5 weeks due to calcium/salt build ups due to my shocking tap water...i grow with organic nutrients so they would then take a while to build up after this flush but they have never shown deficiencies after this point....
but i did a photoperiod grow, and the smell and taste of these buds are just on another level...blew any autos ive done out the water...i mean the autos did the job and were a good smoke but they dont have that same smell taste and appeal as the photos...i did switch to using RO water and supplementing with cal/mag which may have made all the difference for this grow as the photos didnt require a flush which would wash anything beneficial out of the soil...but im after someone who grows photos and autos to give me a clear answer on photos vs autos...and will my autos always have that same woody, hay like smell and not have much taste when compared to the photo periods?