Why do you dislike auto flowers too?

I didn't grow autoflowers, but all the autoflowers I smoked were shit. Does this apply to Fast versions? After all, there is an autoflower gene, as I understand it.

Yeah dude it’s a simple marketing ploy. You can’t clone autos. So why sell seeds when you can just take cuts from and never buy their seeds again?? Enter autos. Plus their genetics are all over the place and most the shit I’ve run has been airy and trash bud..

Ruderalis is shit, so you are smoking a plant that is shit at 10/15% at least. You are wasting money to run 18h of light everyday for 3 months and buy a seed for every plant, so you can’t also clone a pheno that you like. If you like to smoke, you can understand by a joint if it is a shitty auto or a fine selected regular. Autos can be useful only outdoor to avoid seasonal problems, stop! But the market is broking the minds of all that new growers, they are fast, they are strong , they are good, fastbud is the best! This website also feeds this quest for mediocrity.

Hooray, another person who has found out the truth about crappy autos! I don't care from which company they are from - just say "no" to the auto flower concept! I have been growing for 35+ years and spent a couple of years wasting my time, effort and money trying auto flowering strains, usually for disappointing yields. If I am going to grow a plant for 3-4 months I want to have a huge harvest, not a few grams/couple of ounces. Combine this with the fact that from those thirty odd autos I grew, I had more weird plants, hermies and mutants than what I have had over the last thirty five years of growing photoperiod plants! Since then I have vowed to never grow them again, they just do not offer anything that can not already be achieved with photoperiod plants. Cheers, Organoman.