To use an auto or not

I might be starting in a couple weeks from seed outdoors. I just wanna know if it'd be better to use an auto, or the fastest maturing photoperiod i can find. Im new to growing so i dont know what to expect. If I plant with a photoperiod will they start flowering almost automatically with minimul veg. And if I use an auto what can i expect.I dont know how the plants will react in the immediate heat and sunlight. if i was to plant photo, i was thinking something like c99, medibomb#2, or aurora indica. n if i went with an auto i was thinking greenhouse seeds auto northern lights, auto NL x Big Bud, or kannabia seeds auto thai fantasy.so comments n input will be helpful

thai fantasy is OK, but DNA sweet haze is NICE! it's not an auto though.

not all autos are the same either. especially when you start getting into auto-hazes & IBLs, the autos might take a while to flip and still take a long time to flower too.

it's a matter of preference. there's at least one SERIOUS drawback to using autos... you can't clone them, so you have to keep buying seeds or breed them yourself.

i like regular strains better myself. the more you try and force long flowering strains to hurry up, the more likely you are to dilute their original magic. i like working with fast flowering strains like C99 as you mentioned better. not that i've gotten into cloning yet, it's nice to keep the option open. i am toying with the masterkush autos i just bred, but they were very small and i would have needed a bunch to get a real yield.

i think of autos as best suited for stealth & cabinet grows. otherwise, there's a bunch of super-cropping techniques that are good for any strain

you know, i don't recall ever seeing anyone rave about a lowryder yet

In my opinion, the best use of autos is for outdoor growth of short stealthy plants that finish up before fall. If you stagger planting them, you can do regular harvests outside, instead of harvesting everything all at once.

I think you have the right idea (auto > outdoor > early harvest), except its pretty late in the season to really take advantage of this.

In this case, since you're probably not going to get seeds into the ground until August anyway, and its going to be a minimum of eight weeks before harvest, its really not going to matter whether you plant a photoperiod plant or an auto since neither one is likely to be ready until October.

So if I were you, I'd just go for a regular plant.

Whatever you plant will veg a certain amount before flowering. If you put regular seeds in the ground now I imagine they'd grow to be a ft or two high, more if a pure sativa - assuming decent weather - and then flower. Autos basically the same deal.

i would have 2 say autos suck, grow clones

some autos flip on their own immediately. my masterkush lowryders were still under 24 hours when they flipped themselves at around the 14 day mark. they would have been bigger & yielded a little more had i not put them under the 12 hour sodium i think.

Where im planting the average temps are 87/68 aug, 81/62 sept,71/61 oct,61/51 nov, and its a subtropical climate so will i still get good veg and yields from my plants even though im starting the second week of august

I was thinkin bout planting mountain kush and aurora indica. I feel like those temps will be fine for them to mature and flower since theyre indicas but im worried about the hours of sunlight. When oct nov rolls around they wont get alot so how bad will that effect their growth/flowering, to anybody tht knows the outdoors well

To late to plant outside a photoperiod, if you want a decent yield & potency but you can put any autos you want.

just did a rather large harvest of some Auto assassins from short stuff, dense nugs with little leaf on them. curing now, stinks real strong like a strong liquor and candy coctail. good stuff overall, its all about finding an auto breeder you trust.

So a photoperiod wont work with the hours of sunlight. But an auto will because its flowering doesnt depend on lightcycles. Whats a normal realistic yeild from an auto with the light itll be under. N if i said fuck it n planted photos what yield Could i expect, i know potency wouldnt be as good as if i planted n auto. But i feel like id still get higher yields. As long as my mountain kush still qualifys as kush idc

What was your average yeild off the assassins?

about 2.5 ounces a plant dried, grown in 4 gallon pots outdoors. 2 plants gave me about 1 ounce and stayed very short, another 3 gave me close to twice the average yield, at 4 ounces, i had 9 total.

I'm curing critical + , critical jack, cream caramel and Mazar , all autos. It's the second season I'm dealing with those and sincerely I'll pass off. Maybe in few years from now , but for nowadays nothing compares to regular photoperiod plant.

dinafem auto's are a bit too ruderalis, get some with less ruderalis traits and you can get plenty good results. their critical auto, fruit auto and cheese auto all were really small and compact like you would expect a lowryder cross would be.