12/12 from seedlings

This is true, but that is just the 'optimum' light schedule. All producers of auto's say that they can be grown under any light schedule of at least 12 hours and still get the job done. you will have less yeild if you do it on a 12/12, but I don't care about yeild this time around. I have plenty of regular plants, Cannibis cup winners, for yeild. This auto run is to get auto seeds, and to fill up space after the males have been sexed and removed. When the auto's show sex, males will all be moved outside to a separate area to flower with other breeding males I have from other strains. Pollen will be collected and distributed accordingly from this area, to both my regular moms and my auto moms at different points in the summer. The auto seed run will start earlier, obviously.. Some auto's will be grown outside as well, and during the middle of the summer, that is close to their optimum schedule.

I have some G13 Haze that will be coming in also, and a couple other strains, that are getting started flowering within a matter of days. I was thinking of leaving a couple extra seedlings of regular varieties in there as well, so I could compare their performance to the auto's under the 12/12 inside, and then compare both those to the auto's grown outside with a more optimum ligh schedule. I still have 8 seeds left, 4 each of two varieties, that I plan on testing under different light schedules later. So don't worry, I know what their optimum schedule is, I'm just experimenting to see what they do with less than optimum, since it's really just to get alot of seeds and cross the 2 varieties strongest phenotypes, if I get variation. I hope that helped explain my thought process a little. I don't exactly 'need' these to carry weight. I got other plants for that.

yeah but if they grow better at 18/6 wouldn't you want to get the best males and females from that process?

not trying to be a dick on your choices, cause i grew a LR2 like that, just all in all not a fan of autos i dont think

I should still be able to tell the ones that have better genes in relation to the others. And like I said, only some are gonna be inside on 12/12. About an equal amount are gonna be outside, so those ones may provide me with a little more yeild, being closer to the optimum lighting schedules. But this really isnt about yeild. It's about testing these things out, just to see how I can integrate them into a system I already have up and running. I haven't sown all my auto seeds either, I still have about 8 left that I do plan on testing during their optimum light cycle indoors as well, but since I already have my next couple grows scheduled I am just unable to do it at the same time as the other tests. For me it is really just about trying it out for a fun experiment, and to get seeds. And honestly, thats pretty much all it is about. I do want to get a taste of it, to see what the high is like in relation to regular pot. Also I will be able to find out if doing them 12/12 makes me end up with just less yeild, or less quality as well, as compared with the outside ones. Then when I do finally have the time to grow them under their 'optimum' schedule, I will be able to compare that as well.

I know you are only trying to help me, but seriously I have too much chronic already . I'm gonna have marijuana coming out my ears in one and a half to two months, so the yeild from my auto's just isn't a priority at all. I want to be able to get a bunch of seeds, so I can just spread them all over outdoors next season, and have multiple harvest of tons of little plants all spring and summer. I am primarily an outdoor grower, who happens to have made a little indoor grow area as well. The auto's are mainly just for fun. I would be happy with a bowl or two off each plant, so long as I get the seeds I want for next season. I am also not trying to be a jerk, I just happen to have a different set of priorities in this situation than other people might. No offence meant to anyone. *Pipe Testing In Progress*

Edit: I should add that besides the auto's, I have 7 other strains of (mostly) chronic-ass normal plants growing now (I also got some freebies, I don't know how good they will be): Barneys G13 Haze, Greenhouse's Himalayan Gold fem, Greenhouse's Big Bang fem, VISC's Fuckin' Incredible, VISC's Blackberry, freebie G13 lab's Afgan Mafia, freebie World of Seeds' Afgan Kush. I also have some Hawaiian Snow fem from greenhouse, that is for my next indoor grow. So trust me when I say I really don't care about the yeild