Autoflowers are easy to grow because you don’t need to change the amount of light your plant gets so it starts flowering. Though you can, and I did when I grew them. They can also take more abuse than a non-AF.

They are handy if you grow outdoors because you can get 2 crops per year. One flowers in the summer, the other in the late fall.

Most AF are really super AF’s. This means that they will grow as big as a normal plant, you just don’t need to change your light-cycle.

Giving your plants some darkness is helpful, IMO, because that’s when they use everything they stored during the “day”. If you wanted, you could put them under a light 24 hours a day, and they would still flower.

I had a 20/4, on-off light cycle during growth. I switched to 18/6, on-off, when I noticed the first pistils.

For my first indoor grow, I grew (4) AK-47 autoflowers. Somewhere I read, ‘whatever you’re hoping for, expect half’.

I hoped I’d get 1/2 oz per plant, ones that grew fast and were short.

Of the 4, one went from seedling to harvest in 67 days. It was 44″ tall, and gave me 2 1/2 oz’s.

The other 3 took around 120 days, total. Each one was around 38″ tall. All 4 totaled, 15 1/2 ounces.

Point: they wern’t small. They stunk. They took up a lot of room. They took a long time.

The only benefit is that you don’t have to make a change to your light schedule. But, you should.

And, if you’re a new grower, they can take mad amounts of abuse, and you still won’t kill them.