Do autos outdoor usually have airy buds?

[Bradley_Danks]

I grew a few kinds of autos for the first time this year and noticed a few decent nugs on each plant but a lot of the buds were really airy. The calyxes are really bubbly.

What's up with that? Is it because they want 24 hours light and their only getting about 12 outdoors? My indoor auto nugs rocked up nicely at 18 hours light. My outdoor photo strains never end up airy like the outdoor autos either.

 

[bruvio]

than you have bad AF strains... good autos are awesome. they like nutes tho

 

[Bradley_Danks]

than you have bad AF strains... good autos are awesome. they like nutes tho

Grew the same varietals indoor and they all had dense dank buds. Grew them outdoor and came out nothing similar. Buds were mostly airy and smelled different.

Check out my last 2 grow journals to see what I mean.

 

[aridbud]

I grew a few kinds of autos for the first time this year and noticed a few decent nugs on each plant but a lot of the buds were really airy. The calyxes are really bubbly.

What's up with that? Is it because they want 24 hours light and their only getting about 12 outdoors? My indoor auto nugs rocked up nicely at 18 hours light. My outdoor photo strains never end up airy like the outdoor autos either.

Are they sativa dominant? A bit more wispy than hybrid autos or indica dominant autos.

 

[Koondense]

I found daylight duration plays an important role in whispiness of OD auto buds.
Autos are mostly grown and bred under long light periods(24/0 - 18/6) and outdoors there's no match for such conditions. With high light intensity the whispiness is way less, so to avoid this or get as much daylight hours possible or get some outdoor bred autos.
Of course photoperiods usually don't have this issue outdoors because they need less light hours(more dark hours actually) to flower, but also lowering light hours to 11/13 brings different results and less yield.

 

[Bradley_Danks]

Are they sativa dominant? A bit more wispy than hybrid autos or indica dominant autos.

The auto varietals I did indoors and out this year were:
Blueberry bliss from vision seeds
Northern hog from thseeds
Lemon haze from emerald triangle seeds
Amnesia from world of seeds
Some phenos more whispy than others but even the densest bud is still loose in comparison to my photo strains. Never the less, it smokes decent just not dense.
I still have a lot to learn about auto varietals.

I found daylight duration plays an important role in whispiness of OD auto buds.
Autos are mostly grown and bred under long light periods(24/0 - 18/6) and outdoors there's no match for such conditions. With high light intensity the whispiness is way less, so to avoid this or get as much daylight hours possible or get some outdoor bred autos.
Of course photoperiods usually don't have this issue outdoors because they need less light hours(more dark hours actually) to flower, but also lowering light hours to 11/13 brings different results and less yield.

That's what I kinda thought about daylight duration and autos.

Can u suggest some outdoor bred autos? My autos outdoor only average an ounce per plant. The breeders promised like 200 grams! It sure would be nice to yield 4 ounces per auto....

Even the autos I grew in super soil in the ground didn't yield much better. I need those good genetics.

 

[NeDank]

Big Devil 2 has a good rep for outdoor production of decently compact buds. Check out haxi's thread a lot of the photo's have been deleted but there are still a few left showing the height and bud structure of BD2 compared to other auto's.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=209639&page=10

It's more of a super auto though 90ish days seed to bud yielding 50-90 grams on average outdoors. Best planted in ground.

 

[waveguide]

guess it depends on your "outdoors" - i've been growing the same auto genetics for a few years, indoor outdoor, but never june july (this is arizona..)

last plant hung in there for a while, but "airy buds" would be generous.. even in the shade it's been like a blast furnace wind heat no rain, all air, no buds.