New Grower Disappointing harvest

[Surfer Joe]

Thanks. I suppose that that variability would also apply to photoperiod plants grown from seed?
Would there be more genetic stability in regular photoperiod versus feminized photoperiod seeds too?
Unfortunately, I am unable to grow from clones in my setup since I can't keep a mother plant going all the time.
I am assuming that you can keep a mother plant going for years in the veg state?
But it makes sense and I would like to try it when my growing setup is more stable.
One thing, though, is that I enjoy the variety of different strains and I would not especially be happy to always smoke the same strain, which means that I would probably need to have two or more mother plants for clones.

 

[Dr Who]

Yes, I'm sure that photoperiod plants grown from seeds would show some variation - although it would depend quite a bit on the strain I suppose. It would be important for a grower to try to select the best individual as the source of clones (although that might be biggest yield, most potent, best flavour etc...). It's not strictly necessary to keep a mother plant, just a line of cuttings. I suspect that not needing 2 separate grow areas brings many people to the auto world.

 

[dandyrandy]

I grew biodiesel auto first about a year ago. I hadn't smoked in almost 25 years. I met a young man at work who is also an EE for the same company. He gave me some weed. Well long story short between here and YouTube I am on my second photo grow now. I grew nl55 from BC seeds, c99,THC bomb, and this time I added Sour Diesel. I am growing a WOS afghan Ryder with the photo run. I am using about 600 actual led watts. I got 12 dry ounces last time and the NL and bomb were better than the $400 a z stuff I was getting. The biodiesel auto was as good as the bought but not quite as good as the photo. I will study this further. It may take me the rest of my life.;-)

 

[Surfer Joe]

I will study this further. It may take me the rest of my life.;-)

I know what you mean. It's as much fun growing it as smoking it (almost).
I'm definitely going to keep trying.

 

[steelrat]

I've had disappointing potency from at least one plant out of four in every grow i've done, i'm on my eighth auto grow now.

I had a discussion with some people about it here :

https://www.autoflower.org/f2/zero-potency-autos-29773.html

In my experience Afghan Kush Ryder from World of Seeds was the most potent, and Starryder from Dutch Passion was the heaviest yielder.

But even with the tried nd tested AKR i have still had the odd fail, with no potency at all - weird.


steely

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[medic grower]

Well i would not say autos have a lower Potency then Photoperiod Plants. Some of the Hardest Stuff i smoked were Autos. For Example Purple Cheese Auto from Autoseeds left every Kush Haze Diesel i had in Her Shadow. I would rather blame it on Lightning Power or Phenotypes. Every Plant even from the same Strain/Lineage has diffrent Habbits so never Expect that one is like the Other except u have Clones from one Motherplant.

 

[fweedom]

Hey Joe like Muddy said autos are much newer which im sure you know too so my advice would be to try growing out some newer ones.

I wont lie when i first started autos a few years back i wasnt impressed with the results. I was a novice grower i remember growing out the original Big Devil, Fast Bud, And Auto AK47 and i remember averaging like 14-20 grams er something per plant with bud that wasnt very impressive.

After that i decided to mostly choose the newer auto strains that have been worked on more and wow is there a difference. Now the autos im growing are easily getting 80+ grams per plant and occasionally the 100+ gram plant. Same for potency, those early auto strains were kinda dissapointing for me as well but just as the yields have increased over time so has potency. i have a buddy who sells photoperiod strains and when i sold him some a few zips of Dutch Passion Auto White Widow to sell he said that people kept asking for the Auto White Widow over his photoperiod strains :Sharing One:

 

[F.N.]

From the reading and following journals. Think different of dutch passion and Magnum Budha seeds should produce some fairly stoney and exceptable outdoors yields when treated right. I hope so too because I am growing them. But will grow some photos too Bur I personaly think the tide is turning on potency an yield. They have come along way in a short period of time I grew the original lowryder and it was a joke. Now some of the grow pics especially Think Different the finger that was on the guys fingers after a trim reminded me of BOMB type weed so that one pic got me back on the auto train LOL

 

[Surfer Joe]

I have heard a lot of good reports about Think Different. I would be interested in hearing of your results.