How does light cycles effect Autoflowering plants?

I have a few autos going, about 5 weeks in, 2 weeks into flowering.

I know that autos flower reguardless of light cycles, but does more or less light effect bud growth?
How would it effect the bud growth to be (on/off) 20/4 apposed to 12/12? Im looking to get the optimum growth out of my auto buds.
Any advice is greatly appreciated..

Been wondering this same question. A while back someone said that they did side by sides of a plant 24/0 vs 18/6 and the 24/0 plant had bigger buds.

No pics though, and twas the only time I ever heard that.

SquishMitten said:

Been wondering this same question. A while back someone said that they did side by sides of a plant 24/0 vs 18/6 and the 24/0 plant had bigger buds.

No pics though, and twas the only time I ever heard that.

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yeah but working from seed, there could of been a bunch of other factors that made the second plant yeild less. It seems like all the good ones you really want to see dont have pics.
I would think that more light would equal more growth, but being a "ok" grower, ive never really monitored a flowering plant, nor had the means to try to flower a plant 24/0 until now.

same here, I commonly hear that plants need some darkness to rest and do processes that take place at night. But never heard any biological reason as to why. Any AF experts out there?

Yeah, I think even an auto needs a balance to maintain proper growth and potentcy.

There is a thread in the Indoor growing section bout Auto's that had shit ton of info bout em from what i recall. I'm to lazy to look for it atm, you might have to go a couple pages to find the thread but it shouldn't be more then a couple pages to find it.

OK after reading at a few other sites and forums, i found out that cutting the lights back to any more than 8 hours off will diminish the yeild, most say Its best to run a 20/4 light cycle. Basically more light will stand for a longer auto life and less light will trigger an already flowering plant even closer to the end of its life span, possibly making it finish faster than 60 days and killing the final yield.