I just planted one last week after the last one i tried failed. I got two of them as freebies. From what i can see thus far compared to my auto cheese which is exactly the same days old and is huge after 8 days and from my last try, the auto purple seems to be tiny and i mean tiny. Even the first one after a month it was small..but i could see the purple in the preflowers which got me excited..and then somehow it just killed itself..which has never happened before.