A year later I've come back with pictures of the harvest I've found. I don't remember what week it would've been into the grow, but I was pleased to have it cut down. A good yield of 155g dry weight.
This was relatively mild smelling, fresh and a bit citrusy, quite weak but decent smoke. I wouldn't grow this again simply because there are much better options at similar if not better prices, and much better breeders to put stock into in terms of autoflowers!
@ ----- You have to find the right genetics with autos!! ----- @
Let this be a lesson to anyone reading. Autoflower genetics CAN be fantastic, just not when they're full of ruderalis!
If you start looking up an autoflower you think you'd quite like to grow, and it says one of it's parents/parent genetics is just straight up a ruderalis plant (sometimes they just say "unknown ruderalis") do not expect potency, density or really anything you'd otherwise expect from a photoperiod.
New and PROPERLY BRED autoflowers (such as anything by Night Owl/Daz himself) have all the properties of a photoperiod every cannabis enthusiast loves, and NONE of the unwanted ruderalis genetics beyond the autoflowering trait itself, which is recessive and can be passed on to photoperiods to make autoflowers WITHOUT bringing other aspects of ruderalis with it depending on how diligent and motivated you are.
Most of these white-label companies (such as RQS) just breed a photoperiod to a ruderalis, then breed the F1 offspring (which carries the recessive autoflowering trait) back to the ruderalis/autoflower parent again. They do this INSTEAD of breeding the F1s with each other, planting a bunch of the seeds to find the autoflowers that have a 1/4 or 25% of appearing from these F1 crosses. This is simply lazy practice and meant for fast business, big numbers, high earnings.
This carries those undesirable ruderalis genetics into the cultivar/the autoflower being created. Their way of doing it makes 50% of the seeds from that F1 to auto cross have the autoflowering trait instead of just 25%, which may seem great if it weren't for the bad effect it has on the genetics of the plant!