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Triptonic said:
Well since it looks like all my plants turned out to be male, I was wondering about autoflowering strains. I have a couple questions about them.

-Is there such a thing as an anti-anxiety autoflowering strain?

-How long is the the complete cycle of the plant usually?

-I think I read somewhere that you cant take clones off an autoflowering plant, is this true?

-I'm thinking about growing out one of my hashberries just to get some pollen. Can I cross an autoflowering strain with my hashberry?

-Anyone like autoflowering strains? Whats good about them and why?

-Anyone dislike them and why?

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Grower420 said:
if your a gurrilla grower then autos are the best cuz think about it they grow under 20 inches most strains do anyway. they take less than 80 days some as low at 65 from seed to harvest. this way you can have multiple harvests a year. the down side is they only yeild around 1 ounce 2 ounces tops if your super lucky.. some indoor ones may only yeild like 7 grams lol. but they dont need alot of soil or nutes which is a good thing. so i mean if you plant alot of them outdoors you can make up for the low yeild by having many many ounce plants lol.. or you could grow a regular plant which grow bigger require alot more work and harvest much much later then the autos.

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Again, like I said, everything here can be solved by a mother plant and clones. Most clones placed straight into flowering will end up less than 2 feet, they will yeild about the same probly more in many cases than an autoflower of the same hight and will finish in the 'SAME' time maybe faster than an autoflower will from seed to harvest AND..you will  KNOW you will have all females where using autoflowers you will get males with reg seeds and even if you use femed seeds there MAY be hermies not definite (depends alot on how they were made and outdoor conditions) but the chance is there. In NO WAY does an autoflower strain posses an attribute that will make it better than a clone or clones from a mother plant. There are no benifits to choosing an autoflower over clones, none, even potency is alot better in regular strains not to mention the ability to increase this by continuous cloning since the plant increases the older it gets.

Experienced growers kno this and thats why we use clones, In no way are autoflowers better than a traditional regular strain plain and simple.

If your a guerrilla grower pack a book bag with clones and plant them, if you time it right you can get 2 harvests. You may be able to have multiple harvests using autoflowers but remember the males? that cuts down on product and seeds it up unless pulled, either way the product is less even with pulling males due to a lower plant count. If you plant 100 clones you get 100 females negating the need for multiple harvests. If each plant produces a minimum of a half ounce each thats 3.125 pounds. To get that from an autoflower you would have to plant at least 100 seeds that in no way will all be female so your already behind not to mention the cost of the seeds, you can pay considerably less for ten seeds of regular and pick a mother that will produce as many clones as you want for as long as you want.

As for autoflowers requiring less attention or nutes thats untrue if your meaning its strain specific. The reason they require less nutes is because they grow small and dont need that much but they STILL need nutes, its a plant thats common sense. A clone will require less nutes as well if placed outdoors at the time flowering in nature starts because it too will stay short.

You see there is nothing special about an autoflower and there is nothing to be gained by using them.

Nothing personal Grower420 I was just using what you said for example.