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Yeah, autos are much less light cycle dependant, but just keep in mind a light cycle is something different than stray light. a Stray light wont be enough to make the plant think it's lights on mode and rather cause stress on one spot. You are right a lot of things can cause a plant to hermie, but you'll notice if a plant is somewhere between mid to late flower and it's a - it's only this one bud that's making nanners - situation it's most likely stray light hitting that spot. if you got more than one fem plant in a tent and one is throwing nanners and it's on all buds it's something else. plants even do this when everything is 100% but just left a little too long. the important part is to reduce the chances of anything going wrong, since we can't pin point exactly what and where things will go wrong we just reduce the chances of it going wrong. with the light cycle thing, the Rederalis trait that we look at as "auto", comes from a gene pool found in Russia. They have looong winter there and extremely short days during winter and besides that when the sun shines it's cloudy so very little sun light hits any part of the eastern European countries, this is what made the plant over generations adapt to the flower mode right from the start no veg time trait, cause it's the long summer days and clear sunny skies we make use of to veg and when winter hits we flower, in Russia their summer is like our winter, so the cannabis plant never got to veg there and adapted to it. If you take that into consideration and look at an indoor setup it would make sense that less light and shorter light cycles and colder temps will make autos perform better, but then again they are all hybrids and a lot of people have tried all kinds of ways with autos, it seems somewhere between 18/6 and 12/12 is best as that's what the bigger part of the species is familiar with.

Sup my fellow mystic. As far as my knowledge you can run autos on any light cycle. (My autos are also on Eskom schedule ) (I think he mentioned it as an observation on the tent, for your future runs, I thought that was pretty insightful to point ou. I didn't even notice it )

45 days since flip to flower. Getting some fade on some plants but also a colour shift on others I am starting to experience more variance from this strain. Making me suspicious. Could this be what they call genetic variance? I've been cloning the shit out of this strain now for three years and only really started keeping a mother plant recently. Up until then I just took clones before flipping the tent. I had a feeling in my bones to prepare for such an event and that's why I did the organic tent above with new strains (Radical Juice + Zombie Bride). Honestly the Radical Juice claps me too hard, like it makes me uncomfortable, especially the chosen pheno that at this point is already all gone. The people love to use it, but it isn't for me. The Zombie Bride is way more mellow and something I personally enjoy toking anytime of day. Doesn't get you too monged, can wake and bake with it, and it comes down to a chill vibe. It'd be a bleak day chopping the ZxP.

@LitItGrown@Naughty.Psychonaut Thanks for responding guys! I was having a little panic, worrying that now I may be doomed to have seeded indoor I had no idea that it could add a further risk of seeds. Already patched up what I could and taped over the LEDs.

Love to see it!

That greenhouse is rocking through winter. So impressive!

I had no idea that tiny bits of light during a dark period can cause fems to go hermie. That is awful, really? I thought it was only extreme stress or not properly feminized seeds that causes hermie plants. I've been running lights 24 hours , with loadshedding. Ended up being like a 18/6 20/4 hour cycle. Then loadshedding stopped for a bit and it was 24 hour light. Now I'm doing 18/6 to save on some electricity, because 24 hours was a bit crazy. My tent does have a tiny pinhole of light at the bottom. One at the top too. I make sure to zip up properly so that flaps cover, and not rush it, because light leaks there too unless the flaps are properly in place. I never figured it to be an issue. Same with the LEDs, of which there are on the plugs and the dehumidifier. Am I compromising my fem autos here, by not doing complete darkness when they do happen to be dark? The last thing I would want with my first indoor grow would be seeds in the bud xD I cry. If that is the case, then I should patch light leakage in the tent, and tape over all LEDs in the tent.

Will flower the plants this weekend, let’s hope there is a bit of sun shine for them in the coming weeks