Why do yall prefer autoflowers to photoperiod??
Im a photoperiod guy who is currently trying autos and not loving it…
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The conveneince is great but some still come out “hempy”. Ironically I think they don’t make the best beginner seeds, a lot of them can be more finnicky.
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I’ve done both. Love photos for the long veg time, and autos, for the set and forget aspect of it. Can have multiple harvests during the season with autos, and grow monsters with photos
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@Eman heres your answers for auto vs photo
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Makes sense, how do you enjoy the idea about planning and letting them do their own thing with the autos but the photos to be able to grow monsters that would be awesome
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I don’t prefer autos. If I had to choose between autos and photos I wouldn’t be happy, though. I grow more photos, but I like the faster harvest I get from most autos. And I like that the photoperiod doesn’t matter. So if there’s an extra spot in the flowering tent, I can fill it with an auto while waiting for another plant to veg. Then when the photo is ready to flip, I can move the photo into the flowering tent and put the auto in its spot. The auto doesn’t care. You can’t do that with photos.
My granddaughter doesn’t want to worry about flowering schedules. She doesn’t need a timer. She just turns on the tent lights when she gets up, and turn them off (or not), when she goes to bed. The autos don’t care.
You can veg and flower in the same tent, and keep all your space filled, all the time.
Most autos are easy to train. You can top most of them three times and not have to worry about training. Usually.
That’s why I like autos.
What sucks about autos is that things have to be perfect for the first month if you want a good harvest. I like 82°F and always put my autos in the best spot in the tent until they’ve got good size. But once they’ve decided not to stunt, I can put them in a corner somewhere and mostly ignore them.
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I always stuck with photos and regs. I have played with autos and wasn’t a fan. I do plan on playing with them more in the feature/crossing with non autos to cut down flowering time.
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I’m gonna say something potentially controversial but it’s my own personal experience:
Autoflowers provide a (potentially) better overall high 
I think, pound-for-pound, autos (might) provide a broader array of cannabinoids due to the added Ruderalis genetics. Therefore the resulting experience is (in my opinion) closer to something like a 1:1 than a traditional high-THC modern polyhybrid
To date, my best flower smoking experience was with a Kush auto freebie from Seedsman, grown 12/12 from seed and still finished right at 75 days 
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Heresy. I don’t have any autos in my top volcano experiences and have tried a ton of autos. They can be very good but this is just crazy talk.
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Yeah, if this was true my pioneer friend would be growing them.
I dont prefer auto flowers.
But when i do grow them, ive learned to start the seed in its final pot. If you stunt that tap root, yield and size will suffer. They have a place for people with short growing seasons.
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I prefer photo fems. I don’t have the time to waste on growing and not knowing if I’ll have female plants. Also, where I live you can only legally grow 2 plants. I’ve done auto fems, and they were decent, but I prefer photos where I can control them better.
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That’s an intriguing idea that might bear exploration. I’m always thinking about cannabinoid diversity. I wouldn’t say my best highs were from autos, but have gotten a lot of fantastic highs from them. And from landraces, and from mixing landrace bud with strong bud photo and auto for smoking. Really potent hybrid bud has its place, but it’s usually more ho-hum 
to me unless it’s mixed with something else.
I can’t say photos are more potent than autos as a generalization. I don’t believe that is true anymore. Not being able to take clones sucks but I think Mephisto (and a few OGers) get around that drawback using tissue culture.
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Wow, never thought about that.
We could circumvent evolution for the sake of selection! 
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“Best high” as in overall visceral experience, NOT the level of highness or whatever.
You guys might need to try more types of cannabis than just smoking brick-to-the-dome 30+% polyhybrids to fully grasp what I’m saying
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Welp @logangrowgan2020 when you finally do find an auto that, with every session feels like a bite of a snack to your body, then you’ll know what I’m talking about 
Even my most favorite photoperiod strain, PBB, doesn’t hold a candle to the overall experience I had when smoking the Seedsman freebie auto.
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I’ve had good and bad auto runs, just like photo periods. The difference being if you screw up your photos, you can veg them another week, and try to fix it. Once you stunt an auto, it’s hard to recover. The thing I like about autos is the light cycle. I like being able to access my plants wherever I want, go in my grow, smoke something and fart around. I get separation anxiety from my 12 hour dark period, lol. You don’t need as much equipment with autos, as in no rent required, because you don’t need to worry about light leaks. I’ve grown some Mephisto genetics, and it’s great smoke, yet i prefer photo periods. Photo periods are just more versatile, and user friendly. If you find something you like, you can keep it forever, as long as you can take a clone
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Last season, I got a start wayyy early with my photos. Started them in February inside. When I harvested, I had 4, 6, and 7 footers. Scared me out of doing it again this year, because I don’t live in a legal state, however they don’t go looking. The set and forget with autos is a, water and give nutes. The current one I have, I just basically ignore. Water, and give nutes.
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Right on. There’s potency and quality of high. With hybrids you can get potency at the expense of cannabinoid and/or terpene diversity, but different historic strains have differing quality of effects with sometimes less potency.
I prefer running photo period over autos. I have tons of auto seeds and all, but dont feel like running them. I have had ime photos producing more weight and better quality bud. Autos grown right do really well, but i still prefer photo period plants. There are times where others have stated before filling space and what not are typically good uses for them. I dont like them much.
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