what are your yield differences between the 2 ? i know you can veg a photo for months longer and get more out of it i am not talking about this . lets say you veg a photo 1 foot tall you will get about 1 to 4 out of it . what will a auto get ? lets say the auto will start to flower about a foot tall . my experiences with auto is limited a friend has a place that is shitty cant get it totally dark so we elected to run led 24/7 thanks for your opinions . please do not say lighting and experience and grow conditions . i am asking your differences between the 2 not what i will get .
My autos, run under 24-0 lighting, got bigger, and yielded even more than my photoperiods of the previous grow, but I did grow them at higher temp. I grow only autos now.
you don't really veg an auto 2 ft tall. It vegs until it flowers and it flowers no matter what you do. Usually they are in full flower week 4 so it will still be a small plant and flowering and growing at the same time. Once it stops growing then it is exactly like a photo in full flower. Same yield.
Do they really yield more if it costs twice the KW/hrs at double the electricity usage? Not if you consider all costs. Grams per kilowatt hour they get stomped by photos.
If you're more worried about grams per square foot of grow space you may be able to do better with autos because of lack of needing a veg area you can take better advantage of your given grow area. As in how much bud can I get out of this room this year? If you're talking about how much bud I can get per dollar of cost the photo is better. You also have to add in costs of seeds every crop with autos.
on a small scale, less than x plants for a home grower many advantages to autos. Cost not being one of them. Difference negligible. Auto seeds allow a grower to experiment quickly with many different strains. No need for total darkness so in my case a leaky closet is perfect. I can keep plants together at different maturity and harvest one a month or so. Seed only adds $10 to a whole plant. But yes I agree, probably not suited to a for profit operation.
my friend is not concerned about the electric bill . will be running under 24/7 led using only a few thousand watts . i know all about electric bills shut every thing down for 2 months for the summer the bill was 4 times the size of my house payment and car payment put together last summer .. best decision you can make some times is to shut down and wait . anyways these autos using 2000 actual watts pulled from the wall of led instead of 4000 watts of hps still is less of a bill burning 24 /7 there is no heat to worry about where it is . and they will harvest faster then the photos guessing about 3 to 5 weeks sooner every photo we see is a 10 to 12 weeks . except a slim few .