SheldonCooper
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Thank you, its the first time im doing a supercrop to have an even carpet so its new for me, i normally let them grow natural. But i wanted to see if i would have a bigger yeild doing it this way.those look good, and you don't need to impress me. it's just a matter of genetics. the plants that have the autoflowering gene developed it to survive in harsh growing conditions and short seasons. they don't have time to grow a lot of trichs, they've been bred to sprint to the finish. when you mix those genetics with a photoperiod plant, you lose some of its potential size and potency to gain the autoflowering trait. so like i said, i got nothing against them, i've grown some and will grow more, and some has been awesome. but the same photo pheno without the ruderalis would have been better....
You sound pretty reasonable with your arguments, and i like to listen what people has to say, atleast when they presents their opinions and facts as then they are on the table for everyone to see.
I hear you on the size if we want to do 1 harvest per summer, but with autos, you can in some places do 3 harvest per summer wich in my book would yield more.
For example; i can fill my 20sqm 3 times with buds = 60sqm of buds
You can fill your 20sqm 1 time with buds = 20sqm of buds
And i will be honest, i have no experience with outdoor-growing so this was just an idea, but 60 is in fact more then 20.
U are looking at autos at the wrong way, this gene they have, the "survival-gene" is very strong and give the girls power to grow and to develop buds in very harsh conditions but when you are taking care of this trait and giving your girls the best possible inviroment these girls will grow faster and bigger in a 90 days period as they can grow and flower under 20 or 24 hours of light wich is 8 - 12 hours more light per day then her photoperiod sister.
Maybe its just me thinking strange, but lets say that i vegged a photo blueberry for 1 month and flowered her for 2 months, could she (single plant) produce 600 grams? Are photoperiods that good? I heard and know for a fact autos can do that with less then 600w of hps.
Potency, here i have to be fair and say i personally never done any measures of thc-content - photo vs autoflower. But just like with photoperiods, autoflowering plants also have different degrees of thc/cbd%, taste and smell.
A thing i can agree on today regarding thc content is that the absolute strongest thc-content will be in a photoperiod plant, the number 1 spot.
But then we have alot of different strains and phenotypes with different kind of thc-content as everyone cant be number 1. Here is where many autoflowering strains matching up or are better then the photoperiods ( again, no not the nummer 1 or 2 spot) but definitely up there on top.
I say that an autoflowering single plant will grow bigger and heavier then her photoperiod sister if bred and grown correct, every day a week in a 90 day time-frame.
Photoperiods can receive 1440 hours of light whilst an autoflower could receive 2160 hours of light in a 90 days period.
Mathematical the autoflowering plant should produce more mass ( buds).
And this is a 90 days strain but there is strains that could finish in 60 or 65 days from seed or 120 days.
I agree, photoperiods is better in some ways, and i say autoflowering plants are better in another. Agree, it is what suits the grower best, enverimont, time-frame and offcourse skills.
If there is anyone that has an input on what yield would impress from 4x600w hps i want to hear it. 4 pounds? 6 pounds? Do i dare say 8 pounds? What will impress/open some eyes on you guys?
I cant control yield as i grow the best i can, but i would like to hear a number.
As autoflowering plants yield less then photoperiods according to you,
Anything over 2400 grams would be good, right? And anything over 3600 grams would be fantastic, i mean we are talking autoflowers, could they yield that much?
Come and check my grow out, we could learn a thing or two