I wouldnât mess with your light height - no.
Couple of reasons (assuming all 3 are autos)
-theyâre gonna hit their stretch phase soon where they will grow vertically plenty and fill out much more.
-autos from third party sellers like herbies are a roll of the dice on genetics. Honestly, most autos in general are a roll of the dice.
Allow me to try to explain - these companies have bought these seeds from random breeders. They themselves do not breed. Thatâs hardly the point but keep that in mind.
So autoflowers are normal canna bred with ruderalis canna for the singular trait of âautofloweringâ or flowering automatically around 4-6 weeks in regardless of light cycle. This trait was found in ruderalis canna in Siberia. It adapted to those crazy daylight hours to flower without 12 hours darkness. This is not the only trait that it has compared to your standard cannabis sativa. It is often much shorter, much more stout, much tighter nodes, less apical growth, different leaf structure. These are just the obvious traits.
Sooo, these companies breed a few generations deep just to hopefully stabilize the âautoâ trait without any care for other traits.. because itâs recessive, thatâs the way it is.. you canât ask for too much when trying to keep the autoflower gene.
So this means you end up with crazy mixes of the normal canna plant with ruderalis plant genetics.. some tall, some short, some medium. Some tight nodes some not.. all they tried to stabilize was the autoflower gene.
To be honest, a lot of breeders canât even get that far, youâll see ppl all over the questions asking why their autoflower is still in Veg 12 weeks in. Itâs because the breeders didnât take the time to do things right.
Unfortunately, this is the state of autoflowers still in cannabis.