Hey bro, good to see you came to pop by. Man, there are a TON of grow journals around here with info on autoflowers. Personally the benefits in my mind are that they can handle 24 hours of light a day even while budding if you chose which means they can definitely grow faster and shorten the cycle. They are more agressive and faster growing plants. My "Think Different" plants are BLOWING my Skunk plant out of the water as far as growth. I planned on taking a few clones of the Skunk if it grew even moderately fast, but I'm not going to bother. Auto's can be feminized. Coloidal Silver and other methods work as well as with any photo plant. Nowadays they are coming out with auto's that produce MASSIVE amounts of bud (almost a pound) in under 90 days from seed to harvest off of one plant. A lot of people hate on autos man, but it's totally unfounded. A lot of it was true not too many years ago. Some hard core photo growers still hold on, but you won't see anyone bitter about that over here. Everyone just keeps on blasting out killer plants and sampling killer smoke. If 6 -Think Different-, or
-Auto Mazar- plants don't give you more than enough weed to last a bit you smoke too much, lol. They can be cloned, but since auto's generally flower due to a combination of age, and plant size it's not really worth it. By the time you root a clone a lot of time has went by and yield is reduced. It can be done, but generally isn't. There really isn't any way of controlling flowering that I know of, but I'm kinda new at it myself. You just plant em and some they start flowering right after seedling stage basically. The auto's they are coming out with now match the yield, and potency of most photo plants.
Check out this grow by Seymour Buds. Also, look at some of Seymour Buds other grows. He does an awesome job bringing plants to their full potential, and detailing exactly how he does it.
https://www.autoflower.org/f5/autoflowering-think-different-dwc-under-l-e-d-4467.html Since it was a test grow he kept a detailed log and kind of long but it gets pretty damn good after the first couple pages. It's "Think Different" by Dutch Passion as another auto that will make people "think different" about autos. This was a test grow and Seymour had nothing to go by at all. Had no idea what to expect, nutrient sensitivities or what have you. That fucker still came out at 356 grams on one plant under LED LIGHTS. Before that he grew out their Auto Mazar and got like 250 grams with LED lights. Dutch Passion is really on their game when it comes to breeding auto's. I've actually got 3 -Think Different- plants going now. Just ordered another 7 of those and 3 Mazar seeds earlier today. I'm not good with the search function here, but just check out the -What's New- Tab for a couple of days and check out what people are growing over here. Decent medium sized plants, and pretty good to killer yields for under 3 months. Auto's are like good cakes that throw a steady quarter ounce every cake. Easy, and Plenty enough for you and the family but if you want to grow multiple pounds of mushies for some odd reason
you're best bet is Mono's, lol. Photo period plants definitely have their place, and always will as MJ becomes legal and farms begin growing the shit, but to ditch the dealer, and have plenty left over auto's are MORE than sufficient, fast, and easy. I'll throw you some links from here as I see somethings that you may be interested in.
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