Autoflower Breeding Project

Why Autoflowers?

Mostly because I like Autoflowers as a personal preference. I personally enjoy autoflowers because of how fast they can grow as well as it being an "automatic" setup and wait process. I have heard people say things like it is impossible to grow large yielding autoflowers. This is simply not true. The 4 oz autoflower limit is a myth. What makes autoflower "automatic"? The autoflower will start to flower by itself without any light schedule adjustment. Cannabis ruderalis or C. ruderalis was given this classification by D. E. Janischewsky a russian botanist in 1924. C. ruderalis are feral cannabis strains that are native to northern Russia but also central & eastern Europe. C. ruderalis is naturally low in THC and higher in CBD thus giving many C. sativa and C. ruderalis hybrids (Autoflowers) lower THC than some more developed photo period genetics. C ruderalis is native to areas north in latitude believed to be the reason for the difference in seasonal light needs. What is better about C. ruderalis? C. ruderalis is a more hardy plant. Given their name for being "weedy" these plants are impacted less by cold, insect, and disease pressures. The C. ruderalis plant grows at a much quicker pace than the C. Sativa plant and without needing to get as tall to produce its yields.

What is the breeding project?

The breeding project is an aim to stabilize genetics currently available and popular in Europe where C. ruderalis comes from and is more widely used. The United States has advanced Cannabis science greatly and its time for autoflowers to become part of that. The typical autoflower is Cannabis ruderalis and Cannabis sativa hybrid. These plants are limited by nothing other than their lack of genetic diversity at this given point in time. This project is an aim to at the very least change this on a small scale. The first phase of the project will be crossing XXL yield rated autoflowers with other XXL's some XL's and L's. What do these yield ratings signify? The simple answer is grams per square meter. The XXL rated plants can yield 500 grams per square meter potentially more. XL yield is up to 450 grams per square meter and L is 350. This first step is to provide a large fairly stable set of genetics to use for large THC crosses in later phases of the project.