Looked around but didn’t really see anything. I know people keep regular cuts for decades, looking for some by the way but I’m wondering what happens to an auto if you just keep it growing. Figure everyone harvests maybe according to trichomes or fade but they get cut down before they die? Maybe i should take a clone and keep it going maybe veg fert? No other reason than just to see what happens. Or I can ask the good folks here and maybe save some time.
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It has a predetermint life cycle. It will eventually die. The reason you can keep photopeeiod mothers for many years is because you keep them from flowering. Flowering is the plants end of life cycle where it tries to produce seeds to live on.
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An autoflowering plant has a predetermined lifespan. If you take a clone, it might root and even flower, but it will do so within the same timeframe as the mother plant.
If you leave it and don’t cut it, the plant will dry out in the pot after a few weeks.
The only way to perpetuate cannabis seeds is through clones of regular or feminized photoperiod plants.
I’m thinking feed water like a veg plant. Basically to watch it die. It would be going way past what someone likes amber. Like I say I don’t know why. No reason other than don’t think anyone lets them go that long. Ready to smoke say. I’m thinking clone because it won’t take up the space.
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No it doesn’t and won’t, the clones will almost always be considerably behind the donor. The mechanism for flowering for an auto is not like a timer and the lifespan is not predetermined, environment plays a factor for certain.
@broncogrow you can clone and keep them going for 6 plus months, they will sometimes reveg and reflowed as well. The healthier the auto at the end of flower, the more likely it’ll do it IME. The reveg, reflower, and returns are often very small and rarely worth the time unless you’re going for a handful of seeds
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Ok cool I was sure someone tried it. I think I probably just need to see it lol. I guess that maybe helpful with breeding? You got that saying/ joke how long to harvest. Two more weeks. I have a cut of some weird gorilla glue auto I’m gonna just let it go was from Seedsman 
it’s at week 20 lol
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So is weed an annual or perennial???
A true auto will die, auto is a recessive gene and they’re often fast flowering instead.
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Annual but they have 2 phases, vegetative then flowering. After flowering they die. Autoflowering plants start flowering after a certain period of time. Photoperiod plants switch from vegetative to flowering when the days get shorter than 12 hours (roughly speaking). This means if you keep a photoperiod plant under >12 hours of light per day in a tent it will stay in its vegetative phase indefinitely. This is how people keep mother plants to make clones.
Has anyone let their auto flower decay on the vine so to speak? I saw a YouTube video where a grape grove manager specifically let his vines go slightly underwatered and overipe near the end of their life to get a product called grapa. It was like a sweet distilled product that used the skins as well. The guy was joking that he does the same thing with his weed (though it very much could have just been a joke). Always got me curious but never had the courage
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I’d be too paranoid about mold to do that.
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I’ve often wondered that. I’ve left the pot with the main cut with couple of leaves hanging out just above the stem. But I never took care of them and they eventually died of thirst. I’m with the others here - it’s likely to die eventually but I’ve seen other annuals persist so I recommend you try it and let the rest of us know. Even if some autos die, it’s within the range of possibility that some wouldn’t.
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It comes down to if they’re true autos or not they’re often faster flowering rather than true autos. I have some faster flowering plants myself i’m hoping for for a female to keep around.If not i’ll keep it around for pollen so win win🙂
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Yep, several times. They can be kept going and flowering and throwing white pistils for months beyond harvest, they will also beg further if allowed and in good health, well beyond 100 days and when the original flowers should be harvested.
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No, it’s not that simple
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It’s definitely an auto but I think it’s on the edge ? No problem with the mold just a small experiment. I don’t know what will happen but I will put a pic up weekly.
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It’s a small thing. In between grows the heat has me. Just something to experiment with.
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136 days. It’s definitely strange to begin with
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Reg autos exist.