New Grower Do dispensaries/street dealers sell auto's? Also, are autos specified as auto's or just the strain l

[User K]

Do dispensaries/street dealers sell auto's? Also, are autos specified as auto...

I really doubt anyone growing to supply a dispensary would use autos, it would not make economic sense. Most grow ops use clones and when new strains come along, they buy clones of them also. Altough I guess in Colorado, they can buy from small growers, who might possibly use autos.

I agree bro. I think you local/grower dealer though is more likely to sell autos for the quick turn around and multiple harvest a year, which is want you if you want to make a lot of money. For example, a grower can make a lot of money if he converts a room and has multiple DWC, with some DP genetics the rewards and bountiful.

 

[GCase]

resolved

 

[pop22]

Well, lets be clear about this thread.

This is a speculative thread.
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We are not commercial growers--period. We are hobbyist.

No one here really-honestly--knows what the commercial growers are doing or thinking. We can speculate they play in a no holes barred environment.

In regard, to dispensaries. All comments are speculative. Check your states laws. If a dispensary is off loading autos as photos--then report them--they will be sorry they did.

So--if no one has a personal experience with the topic then = speculation--and guessing.

Actually I watched an in depth documentary about the Colorado cannabis market and it was quite interesting. One of the grow ops they highlighted is owned by the developer of Charlotte's web. They showed them at their greenhouse and the dispensary, making many clones for their grow op. Could they use autos? yes. Would it make sense? I don't believe so when most use the Sea of Green method to keep a perpetual harvest. And its a lot cheaper to use clones.

 

[MaxTrichomes]

I have no problem to what you all are saying except where you say autos have no medical benefit.The might not be as high in cbd but some autos work very well for certain medical problems.Like you say your not really knowledgeable about autos and medical properties soyou might want to research our medical threads to give you some good info on the subject.

Hi Namvet, you provide consistently good info here, respect. And for the record I love autoflowering plants.. I would have difficulty growing photo plants in my conditions/situation here.

But here you misquote I did not say they autos have no medical benefit, that would be very ignorant. I said I cannot see them having further benefits than the multitude of photo period plants from which all autoflowering varieties have been derived. Some of which like CBD crew strains have 50/50 CBD/THC, a very respect worthy work for the Cannabis genus. This is why the variety point does not cut it either for me cause we should remember that with photoperiod plants you get the original strains. The Autoflowering versions are supplementary and crossed with the c.Ruderalis, not the other way round.

I think autoflowering plants are extremely advantageous and worthwhile of their existence and it is only great that strains are improving. It is important to understand the history so we never loose the all important land race and original male and female photoperiod versions of the best strains developed. That is in every seed vendor, dispensary and cannabis users interest !

 

[MaxTrichomes]

Apologies my original post should have said "no additional medical benefits"

 

[TheSpacePope]

From a pure objective standpoint, if the quality is on par with their standards at the end of the day they care more about flushing and spores and other more hazardous things when buy privately grown stock. Honestly I had homegrown organic blue mystic that blew the doors off any photo i have ever tried and thats is alotta name brand strains to say that. An many daily tokers who have never heard of auto says, "I have never smoked anything like this before" . That is results to stand behind and all anyone needs. Dont be a CANNA-SNOBB! Each has their own merits one for commercial, one for connoisseurs. One isnt bad, just diff. both have very enjoyable exp. and to each their own.

The main issue with dispensary buying auto instead of photos isnt not because of quality, THAT IS A URBAN LEGEND. Dispensary are company's at the end of the day they dont want 3zips here or a 1/4lb of 3 strains. The reason they prefer photos is because photo you can clone getting a exact match to the previous so you know exactly what the %s are gonna come back from the lab and customers can have a more predictable experience. As oppose to an Auto which has to be grown from seed which % vary by plant, and experiences within that pheno type spread. Not to mention controlling genetics they worked hard for! Yes they sell clones(50+bucks each).... but do they sell their breeding male as clones.....NO. Just like most auto breeders do, is fem so that you have to cont. to buy more. While other breeders like stich are more like firefox and opensource it (give both sexs and allow to cont pure genetics for a bit) (and 30-50 bucks for 5 seeds with 30-40% being male)

quite a big diff in profitability
But where they are most likely to use autos is for Oil/edible making.

-The SpacePope :grat:

 

[EverythingsHazy]

Surprised to see this thread pop up again after so long lol.

What I meant about selling autos as the same as photos isn't labeling them wrong, just not mentioning that it's an auto. An auto or photo white widow are both white widows. It's like leaving out the word perennial or annual. Not a strain name. So is it really wrong if you aren't selling seeds or clones to be cultivated? Not necessarily. The strain names are the same. Was just curious if it is a general "rule" to say it's an auto

 

[TheSpacePope]

Surprised to see this thread pop up again after so long lol.

What I meant about selling autos as the same as photos isn't labeling them wrong, just not mentioning that it's an auto. An auto or photo white widow are both white widows. It's like leaving out the word perennial or annual. Not a strain name. So is it really wrong if you aren't selling seeds or clones to be cultivated? Not necessarily. The strain names are the same. Was just curious if it is a general "rule" to say it's an auto

Yeah I know I was searching for genetics review for ET seeds, and saw this and had to chime in. Well if you wanna get down to genetics (w/o a science lesson). there can be 5 dispensary in your city, an all have "blue dream" that must mean they all have the same strain. But in actuality they are all diff. subsets of the "blue dream family" then individual phenos of each in which all have diff effect that why youll hear breeders say " I got that cherry cut of ......" . Girl scout cookies is another perfect example. So labeling auto vs non auto isnt the same as say coke vs diet. But more like Chevy vs GMC (all under gm). In all honesty, if they truely wanted to create a true to spec auto.(In theory) All they would have to do is have a original photo with slight more sativa characteristics an adding rude (balancing back to expected effect). should give a damn near close to spot on, will be less noticeable in indica crosses than with sativa.

Although I know a few that places that do carry them purposely for auto growers that want to come in an try the strains before they put 3 months (grow + cure) time in.

Hopefully this ends the debate on the matter :xlaugh: