Autoflowering & Preflowering

When an autoflowering plant preflowers does that mean it will automatically go into the flowering cycle because it doesn't need a 12/12 light cycle to flower?

kinda it flowers by age has nothing to do with the light schedual so itll flower on a 24/0 and a 10/14 light scedual

Well does it matter what cycle it ends up with for production? Are you going to see a difference in 12/12 light period vs. 24/0 with these?

yeah more budds and bigger.....if you think about it your doubling the light ......... on like a window sill youll get like 4 grams and if you do it right and know wut your doing you can make up wards of an ounce

I thought marijuanna plants could only photosynthesise light for a maximum of 18 hours then they've reached their max and need darkness to break down starches and so forth??? I may be wrong though I'm not an expert grower here. lol