What Are Autoflowering Seeds

By Danny Shaw

Autoflowering cannabis seeds have revolutionized home cultivation. The automatic initialization of the flowering stage has had positive effects throughout the entire grow cycle. Autoflowering has sped up seed to harvest times, reduced space requirements and grow equipment overheads. The benefits of autoflowering seeds are glaringly obvious. However, what they are, how they work and when they arrived on the scene, are not questions, the general cannabis community can usually answer. This book deep dives in to the information and definitively explain autoflowering cannabis.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Danny Shaw
• Release date: Oct 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215353530

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Autoflowering cannabis seeds have revolutionized home cultivation. The automatic initialization of the flowering stage has had positive effects throughout the entire grow cycle. Autoflowering has sped up seed to harvest times, reduced space requirements and grow equipment overheads.

The benefits of autoflowering seeds are glaringly obvious. However, what they are, how they work and when they arrived on the scene, are not questions, the general cannabis community can usually answer. Let’s deep dive in to the information and definitively explain autoflowering cannabis.

What Are Autoflowering Seeds

Autoflowering seeds, aka day neutral seeds are genetically modified cannabis varieties, that don’t rely on photosensitivity to initiate flowering. They automatically switch from the vegetative growth to flowering stage based on age, not how many hours of light the plant receives per 24hr period.

Autoflowering cannabis strains are created by cross-breeding either indica or sativa genetics, with ruderalis. Giving breeders the ability to modified a particular strain to automatically flower. Combining ruderalis, sativa, and indica genetics are the fundamental building blocks of autoflowering seeds.

How Do Autoflowers React To Light

Autoflowering cannabis plants do not require prolonged periods of 12 hours or less darkness per day to begin flowering. In nature, cannabis plants are classed as photosensitive, giving rise to the terminology photoperiod. This means they flower in reaction to light and dark periods.

Photoperiod cannabis strains initiate flowering due to the waning light cycle indicating winter is coming.