The Real Auto-Flowering Review! w/pics!

SGS

Member
I thought about putting this on another forum but I like Rollitup and seems to be a nice place to have a real review on Auto-Flowering with your views, concerns, and experiences with AFs since it is becoming such a large issue. I felt it was time someone started giving some REAL info on the subject from a long term view of the AF strains that have been made. Please join into the convo, but please we are adults here! keep it clean with inteligent views and ACCURATE information. I will do my best to help, and stay non-bias. Pictures of AF grows GOOD or BAD please post, I would love experiences of certain strains,, it will help everyone see what strains to stay away from and what is good.

Auto-Flowering cannabis can and will be good, you have to look at it in the point of view from a dedicated breeder. Most AFs released today are unstable shit, due to the fact that every wannabe breeder is trying to make a fast $ on the new way to grow your own cannabis fast. They create AF hybrids from unstable stock and call it a new variety when in fact is nothing but an unstable hybrid with a lot of variation. This is why a lot of reports of these strains are negative, except for the lucky few that get a good pheno.

Bad reports also stem from the fact that the Original LR#1 was not that great and had phenos that had very low potency. So, most people that see anything made from this parents must be bad aswell. This is way of thinking is far from true. Some breeders are taking the steps to get as far away from the Original AF parents as possible, making many many crosses over the last 7 yrs sinse Original LR#1 was made public. These new hybrids are the result of many years of hard work, adding the best quality of genetics to push out any bad traits from the Ruderalis parent but keeping the AF trait dominant.

I dont know why people pass judgement on all AFs strains when most of them haven't tried them all or even one of them and they think they know about all AFs and write a hatefull review on all AFs based on 1 bad experience. Most poeple haven't seen most of the Elite AFs as they are still being worked on or the breeders just don't want to share thier creations.

Please everyone remember, Auto-Flowering is in its infantcy, just look at the history of great stablized hybrids, Skunk#1, NL, Haze, and newer examples, C99, DeepChunk, and so on took many many years to stablize and show the quality they have today. The same can be expected from AFs.

Ive been around from the begining of the AF seed movement and I can tell a lot of AFs are crap for various reasons, BUT there are a few that are GREAT!! Better in quality then a lot of NON-AFs on the market today. The trick is to try and find them, I really dont like how the Dutch companies and others have setup this market of trying to make the most $$$ and as fast as possible on the lastest growing trend.

Why dont they just spend the time it takes to make a REAL stable hybrid that has quality, I mean what the hell happend to making stable strains where you dont have to by 10 packs to find the mother that was discribed in the breeders strain discription????? This goes for Non-AFs too!

As for AF-FEM seeds, IF MADE CORRECTLY are a valuable item! I will make another post on AF-FEM seeds below, or not, humm, as that is another part of the topic, i will see.

Well I hope this thread will help shed some light on the subject and be used as a tool for people to understand what AFs really are, good or bad.

SGS
Some pics of projects in the works of Auto-Flowering strains with high qaulity.

Pink Bud seeded female Day 64 from seed.
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MiniFrost Day 55 from seed.
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nickman

Active Member
I've seen many reviews go this way and that way ...

I'm thinking of trying out the Automatic AK 47 for my 1st grow ...
We shall cee ...
 

macsmoke24

Well-Known Member
hi all
i have been thinking of throwing some af strains in my grow room while vegging my clones.
so am looking for a good strain.
 

SGS

Member
I guess we can make a list, this list should be used as a guide as it will be made from personal experiences from reports found on this board and others, to compile the best known information about Auto-Flowering strains to help everyone make the best choises.

I will just add to the listings during the accumluation of reports, Will help people know what AFs are best and what are PROVEN BAD (many reports) and to stay away from.


Good AFs
List of Good AFs with Proven Results, with Notes.

LR#2, high potency, good taste,excellent quality, low yeild.
Auto Hindu Kush aka Master Low, Mellow classic indica high, average yeild, 9 weeks to finish.
Original Blue Streak, great yeild when grown in 3 gallon pots, excellent potency and yeild, some phenos go to 70+days but most are done at 9 weeks.
Auto AK47 ,good yeild and potency, but there have been reports of long flowering phenos some going 80-90 days until finished.
Mossy's JEMS, Purple buds, good potency, great outdoors, good yeild, not the best taste in the world.
Sour 60, very high quality, excellent high and yeild, but a few reports with hermies and longer flowering then 60 days.

I will update more when i have time.

BAD AFs
List of BAD AFs for those that are PROVEN BAD! not just a few reports.
 

bajafox

Well-Known Member
I just started my first 2 auto's yesterday. They are Short Stuff Onyx and Super California Haze from the Attitude August promo.

Definitely sub'd and interested in people's experiences, I'd like to grow some auto's when I get my real veg tent set up since they supposedly do better under 18/6.
 

SGS

Member
I just started my first 2 auto's yesterday. They are Short Stuff Onyx and Super California Haze from the Attitude August promo.
Definitely sub'd and interested in people's experiences, I'd like to grow some auto's when I get my real veg tent set up since they supposedly do better under 18/6.
Great Please post your results when you get them!
 

bajafox

Well-Known Member
They've been in soil for over 24 hours :D I hope to see them by tomorrow or Thursday. I will probably keep them under 250w cfl for about 2 weeks then throw them in my flower tent (400-600w hps depending on the weather) for 12 hours and back under 250w cfl for another 4 (currently my veg tent is set to 16/8.)

If you're interested my grow journal is in my sig but I will update this thread as well
 

Rtoke

New Member
you were saying whats good auto strain so ..the new super autos from flash seeds!!!!!! check em out
 

SGS

Member
the new super autos from flash seeds!!!!!! check em out
If that wasnt the worst TROLL post in the world i dont know what is,, how about some acctual info to that post guy, i mean really trying to keep this a clean thread!! so please NO more posts like this,, can a MOD get in here and help us out???

SGS
 

DoinIt2Gether

Active Member
I grew 3 Auto Assassins that harvested about a month ago. The smallest one is my avatar...
I transplanted them when I didnt know I wasnt supposed to, so I may have affected the growth, but one was only 3 inches tall and the other two were around 8 inches tall. The smoke was pretty good, kinda fruity and dense buds. The phenos were nothing like they were supposed to be, but good bud nonetheless. They were finished right around the breeders stats, at 65 days.
 

jpnspec

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rubb a dubb subbed. I have some Short Stuff Auto Assassins going on right now (almost 5 weeks in) Check out my sig. Ill post some updated pics on here at the end of the week
 

jpnspec

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I grew 3 Auto Assassins that harvested about a month ago. The smallest one is my avatar...
I transplanted them when I didnt know I wasnt supposed to, so I may have affected the growth, but one was only 3 inches tall and the other two were around 8 inches tall. The smoke was pretty good, kinda fruity and dense buds. The phenos were nothing like they were supposed to be, but good bud nonetheless. They were finished right around the breeders stats, at 65 days.
hey DoinIt -

was the high a more sativa dominant as described for the AA?? Im looking forward to some good sativa to :joint:
 
Hello everyone...Im new to site pretty much..But not new to growing ..I really do enjoy auto's..They are a very good tool in everyday life for me...

I have only grown 5 or 6 strains...Yields anywhere from 5-80 grams off each lady...Yea big gap i know...Indoor's was best by far..That was MD's Blue streak...

Diesel Ryder and LR #2 were sum of the best smoke so far, but yielded low..

I crossed DR x BS last winter...did best for me outside...Suffered from water stress but still 20 grams average on each plant...Very frosty as well


I have yet to see a bad auto..But then again i dont shop around for beans....
 

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hoss12781

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I had to try twice to get good autos. The first time I bought Speedy Gonzales from Flash Seeds. Everyone do yourself a favor and DO NOT buy them. One one (out of three) germed and it grew enough bud for one bowl, under plenty of light (700w CFL, and 150W HPS). Short Stuff Seeds, in my experience (Snow Ryder and Auto-Assassin) is a great company, kick ass smoke, and good yields (between 1-2 oz off each of done right).
 

mattinuk3

Member
Stay away from Short Rider by Nirvana. Out of 13 seeds, none autoflowered. I have several that I planted at the end of july that aren't flowering yet (at like 6 weeks now), and have some that were planted in mid august that aren't doing anything either.
 

JP1

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Stay away from Short Rider by Nirvana. Out of 13 seeds, none autoflowered. I have several that I planted at the end of july that aren't flowering yet (at like 6 weeks now), and have some that were planted in mid august that aren't doing anything either.
maybe its your growing environment or the seeds you have in paticular have gone dud from poor storage or something....?
 
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