Ever since the Joint Doctor brought about the wide-scale availability of auto-flowering cannabis seeds the Lowryder and Lowryder2 strain has maintained a constant state of high demand. Meaning its sometimes impossible to get hold of them from certain sites and its hardly surprising once you realise the full facts.

The breeding of auto flowering strains of cannabis plants is becoming more and more popular. New strains and auto flowering hybrid seeds are appearing on the market rapidly but why are these seeds so popular, and how are these new breeds being created.

At the most basic level auto flowering cannabis seeds should be able to grow into fully flowering plants in far more lenient conditions than cannabis plants typically require.

While normally growing a marijuana plant will require extremely well regulated lighting, generally beginning with around 18 hours of light and 6 hours of dark at the same times every day during the vegetative stage and shifting to 12 hours of light and 12 hours of dark (to trick the plant into thinking it’s autumn) to induce the flowering stage. This is a much more simple process, which gives beginners a far higher success rate.

When growing an auto flowering seed the grower simply needs to plant the seed, leave it in a position where it has constant, 24 hours a day light (18/20 hours are recommended)  and make sure that the soil is kept moist by regularly watering it.

As well as being less hassle care for, auto flowering plants will typically be ready for harvest in a relatively short space of time.

Auto flowering plants can show sex in as little as 14 days from seed.

The flowering stage should kick in after 3-5 weeks depending on the type of seed that has been used and the conditions it has grown in.

Auto flowering plants can be ready for harvest in as little as 7/8 weeks.

A lot of breeders are currently trying to create new and hybrid strains of cannabis seeds that will auto flower.

The most common method of achieving this is by growing an established auto flowering male plant and cross breeding it with any other female plant. Initially this will produce a very low percentage of auto flowering seeds, but constantly inbreeding these seeds will yield higher and higher numbers of auto flowering seeds.

Unfortunately, as cannabis is illegal in most countries, a lot of these strains are short lived. Fortunately autoflowering seeds and cannabis seeds can legally be purchased online and preserved until laws are relaxed.