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Autoflowers: Am I Missing Something?

The biggest mistake made with autos is treating them like photos. Can you top them and transplant them? Yes but it does nothing good for them and unless done at the perfect time will have negative effects. They are mostly a set it and forget it plant. Their first 3 weeks of life are the most critical.
in order to avoid over/under watering them I give the planter a good soaking a day before planting. Drop your seed cover it and put a clear plastic cup over it. Note the weight of the planter. Remove the cup a day after sprout. In normal growing conditions that plant won't need to be watered for at least two weeks. Let the roots find the moisture.
and don't get hung up in the overpriced dirt hype. Can't fathom why people pay 30+ bucks for a bag of dirt with colorful graphics only to burn up their seedlings.
Man I wish I was the guy that started build a soil. That dude's getting rich off of the uninformed. Volcanic dust? Bat guano? Geez.
 
It has the same effect(affect?) as topping a photoperiod plant. It is just extremely critical that you do it before she begins flower. Otherwise you're effd. The plant must also be in the most healthy of conditions. I've been able to top autos at the fourth and fifth nodes without any negative effects. But it was a judgment call for sure.
 
I’ve only grown 2 sets of autos but I’d have to disagree on this. I treated both grows the exact same as I would autos with very good results. My last grow produced the fattest plants I’ve ever seen!
 
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I tried something different this time (with my whisky zulu autos.) I noticed from the first grow that the biggest secondary colas came from the bottom of the plants so I cut the second and third true leaf sets early on to get more light to the base of the plants. I think that it did what I wanted. The bigger plant is falling down from it's own weight.
 

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I'm not sure that there's an energy savings. I run my autos using a suggested "daily light interval" of 400. That can be brighter light for less hours or dimmer light for longer hours... same amount of energy.
 
My first auto I fimmed and then topped that. It was a bad grow due to not knowing what to expect and didn't get too big, 100 gr harvest. Second auto fimmed at the fourth node around two weeks above ground. If I didn't then it would get too tall. It now has filled out the 30x30x60" tent and is a square plant. Lights are up as high as I can get them and the main stalks all bent down. Two weeks to go or so.
 
Crucialbunny- I just Started an auto grow, picked two fast strains- I have a hundred days to finish and with the training I do with photoperiods usually takes about 4 months since they are in veg a little longer than with less training. Only time I did autos before was when I was two months into one grow, had extra room for two plants, so I tried the autos. It worked well because photoperiod didn’t matter. When the photoperiod were finished I just turned the lights up to 20 hrs and finished them about 4 weeks latter.
 
What would happen to autos if you had autos and photos growing but the autos were taking longer and the photos were ready to flip?
 
I agree. Every once in a while an auto will surprise you but for the most part they’re not worth it to me. I continue to grow the freebie auto seeds I’ve accumulated but not wasting money on purchasing them
 
That’s been my experience too, thought I’d try a full auto grow this time. If I had a large grow room I’d grow more from regular seed but it takes a lot of space to veg until you can sex them. So I usually use feminized. Freebie seeds are great, but I had to buy them this time. The seeds I started soaking are already germinating after 36hrs. Time to plant!
 
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