Autoflowers and my personal story on why i made the switch.
Quite a few years back, I wanted to re-approach this hobby of growing with open eyes and without biased opinions that I once held. I set about learning anew or at least refreshing my knowledge on the subject as things change over time.
I had a veg chamber about 80% the size of my flower chamber but it was starting to nag at the back of my mind that it was only ever full when I had multiple mother plants, clones that were vegging, and new seed runs just going through the first couple weeks of veg. I consistently had left over space that wasn’t being used while keeping my flower space full. I started thinking about how I could use that space more efficiently and figured this would be an excellent time for me to try my hand at some modern autos.
I started to run a bunch of freebie autos that I had with mixed results. Some were straight up junk and others didn’t do well due to my own fault. Eventually after trying a few different breeders I went out and did some research on genetic lines that people were having good results with and decided to pick up a couple packs. I wasn’t disappointed, first plant that surprised me was a Dark Devil by Sweet Seeds. It sat off in the corner of my veg space and it proceeded to grow and finish in 8.5 weeks from seed and ended up yielding 25-35% more than the photoperiods I was running at the time such as C99, Bubblegum, Lemon Kush, Diesel hybrids, DP Blueberry, ect. I was intrigued, so after I got a decent cure on those buds, I did some sampling. They were good and the potency was no different than my photoperiods.
At that point I knew they were onto something and that got me thinking. I was on a genetic hunt at the time with the eventual goal of making my own crosses of the plant that suited me best. Realizing that that I could run plants 2-3 weeks quicker from seed than I could with photoperiods and yield more in that time. I said screw it and ran one of my spaces almost purely with autos apart from some mothers I was keeping. I was sold after that harvest.
To finish this out here are a couple shots of some of my micro grown autos I have done. Don’t shy off because they are micro grown, that’s just the way I choose to grow for my consumption.
