auto flowering, could someone explain this to me?

Please explain to me how this works, the concept of it all and what you would need to do for it to work.

I can't explain it to you, but I'm sure somebody that can will come along. I can copy and paste, but that doesn't make me know. I CAN tell you that all you need to do to grow is what you may already have. You don't have to change the light cycle basically. You can leave your lights in the veg cycle and they will flower. They're going to finish in a certain amount of time, reguardless of light cycle. I think it's more convienient if you don't have a lot of space for a veg. and flower room.

well, its simple, the ruderalis type of marijuana plant relys on time, not light cycle to finish. so people take the low thc ruderalis and breed it with more potent strains until the characteristics they want are stable. by selecting the type with the characteristics that match that of a certain strain, making sure it autoflowers, and BAM you now have a more potent, autoflowering plant that will finish in a very short time under any light cycle.

to be honest i ordered diesel ryders over a year ago and never got my beans(somtimes this happens) and after that i ordered auto ak47, and after trying to find a location, havin to start and stop, and to many idiots in the group- out of 9 beans that germed i couldnt finish a single damn one lol.

so im angry with auto's but its soley out of spite for the money i wasted, i hear the final product can be worthwhile. but im sticking with good ole fashion beans, no question on quality and i can grow them as big as i want.

Autoflowers can be on 24/7 light the whole cycle although some use 18/6. They will be small dwarf plants and not yield much but the quality is high. I have grown white dwarf auto several times and it is very good. The short seed to harvest times that you see advertised are under optimal conditions, don't count on them.

how long does it typically take from seed to harvest?

8-10 wks although I have seen them take much longer on RIU before- they are still relatively new genetics [around 5 yrs] so they are still ironing out the creases. Cool though.

Motorbreath said:

how long does it typically take from seed to harvest?

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There is no typical, it's ready when it's ready. You can count on at least a week or two longer than they say though.

thanks everyone for giving me a better explanation. I have another question, i am new to growing would it be recommended to go with an Autoflowering plant, or should i just stick to the normal way?

paintnick said:

thanks everyone for giving me a better explanation. I have another question, i am new to growing would it be recommended to go with an Autoflowering plant, or should i just stick to the normal way?

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I just got done 2 weeks ago with the "easy ryder" autoflower. It's a mix of auto ak47 and lowryder #2. The quality of the bud that came out was impressive. It was a smooth smoke with great taste. I grew organic in the corner of a basement using a 400w hps on 20 hours on and 4 off the whole cycle while adding nutrients to the water when the plant begun flowering. There was no reflective material surrounding it, only brown walls and I yielded around 45 grams dry. The whole process took 11 weeks. It's up to you when you want to harvest the plant based off the tricomb color. IF you use a 20x-70x microscope to view the tricombs near the end of the flowering period, you're looking for the tricombs to become amber in color. They start off clear, then go to milky, then to amber. If the tricomb (single tricomb not the tricombs on the plant as a whole) is 10% amber, it will produce more of a mind/cerebral high, with it 50/50 amber it is more of a body stone, and with it 90% or more, you get couch lock high. I harvest mine at 90%. So all in all, I didn't have to worry about changing the light cycle and was very impressed with the autoflower. I just popped 2 more in so that makes 3 altogether (feminized) and i've had a 100% germination rate using the paper-towel method. Your not going to yield nearly as much as you would growing a photoperiod but 45 g's is not too shabby considering you'll obtain high quality bud with little effort. Good luck on choosing man..