This allows the farmer to do 4 or sometimes 5 crop rotations per year with very low maintenance cost, while producing the same amount per square foot as a single crop would before!

I can almost guarantee you've had an auto flower strain!

This is just one of countless examples of plants showing what was initially deemed a mutation as an extremely valuable trait that ultimately helped bring prosperity to humankind

Nature is funny sometimes!

The auto flower is amazing because of its capacity to flower regardless of light period, always having a 3 month full growth to maturity period.

It is also extremely resilient, making it suitable for at-scale outdoor mass production.

If you've ever smoked a dab pen, ate gummies, or has a free J

But one day, a very weird plant was found.

This plant was short and stout, it's flowers of a less fine quality, but showed one amazing characteristic.

This trait would change the way people grew cannabis forever!

This plant showed NO photoperiod sensitivity, and was thus dubbed the "Autoflower"

However, only using a plot of land once per year and taking the winter off is HIGHLY in efficient and expensive

Another option is to control the light exposure with blackout greenhouses.

But while using blackout greenhouses increases quality and crop amounts, it usually DOUBLES the cost, or more

When the nights get longer (autumn + winter), the plant starts to grow and mature its flowers.

This natural cycle allowed farmers to harvest only one crop per year, thus the optimal approach was to maximize plant size and minimize amount of plants to reduce costs (yields are similar per sqft)

How? Two words:
Photoperiod Sensitivity

This is a fancy way of saying a plant matures in different phases depending on how much sunlight it gets

Cannabis plants are naturally photoperiod sensitive. They stay in their growth (vegitation) phase as long sun exposure stays long (spring + summer)