Autoflowering seeds - standard light times

looking into auto flower seeds. do you treat them as normal seeds in regards to the lighting schedule? 18/4 for veg and 12/12 for flower? what is recommended?

Thanks, Ive always used clones.

nope u give it 18/6 all the way ive read multiple times that 12/12 will give u a crappy harvest

18/6 or 20/4 all the way start to finish..

i heartmj said:

18/6 or 20/4 all the way start to finish..

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Great thanks.. you really dont have to worry about adjusting the light times per cycle?

no, thats the whole point of autos and im running 20/4 all the way

CaliMedicated said:

Great thanks.. you really dont have to worry about adjusting the light times per cycle?

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i have grown many autos over the past year.. I leave mine on 18/6 mainly for my light bill. I have also left them on for 24 hours from start to harvest and i pretty much get the same results with 18/6.

any questions ask away. love to help.

^^ i would love if someone would do comparisons to determine at what point additional light benefit is diminished. As in 12/12 is generally considered low yield, where as 20/4 and 18/6 are similar. To answer the question we need somewhere around 5 plants all with the same medium, same light, same temps, and close as possible pheno. each light would be different on/off. It would be great to find the perfect middle ground for these things.

thats interesting but ull need some space to pull that off

So that is the timing, but should one change the lighting strength. For example I have a PC box and it has both light spectrums. Should I change the light spectrum while keeping the time solid?

i heartmj said:

i have grown many autos over the past year.. I leave mine on 18/6 mainly for my light bill. I have also left them on for 24 hours from start to harvest and i pretty much get the same results with 18/6.

any questions ask away. love to help.

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Thanks, I'm going to friend request you.

harveyjarvey said:

So that is the timing, but should one change the lighting strength. For example I have a PC box and it has both light spectrums. Should I change the light spectrum while keeping the time solid?

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I use cfl's with 2700k for flowering and 6500k for vegging....