Semi autoflowerers????

[Photosynthesis]

Hi,
the guy in the local grow shop reckons he's growing a semi auto plant (i dunno what strain)
if you was to cross an auto with a regular, what would the offspring be?
photoperiod dependant or not?
i personally dont see the point, auto or not. one or the other

[Forest]

it is still a full auto, rudderals auto flowering quality is the only part the crosses keep and dont lose with continual crossing , so i seem to remember i read some where , not sure where semi autos come from have to google it, but that my understanding of the auto side of a cross like you said

[Photosynthesis]

i thought maybe with continued crossing of the crossed offspring with regular plants would eventually result in a very near regulat plant, outbreeding the auto over many generations.
i think this should be in the breeding forum now.
can auto not be bred out of the plant like it can be introduced?
cheers

trichs

[Forest]

i dont think so from what i read it is the only characteristic that stays from a ruderalls plant but i might be wrong but pretty sure thats what ive read

[Jesse_tpfi]

breeding with autos would work as breeding with any other types
if the genetics are stable your F1 might be autos or not
but once you breed beyond that you will have auto genetics popping up for a generation or two depending on what your breeding goals were (e.g from one cross ,and lots of stabilising afterwards,it'd be possible to produce a regular and an auto strain with similar genetics but with one relying on photoperiods and one not)

[Photosynthesis]

why would one want a semi auto plant anyway?

[Bobby Digital]

they would finish outdoors...

[wert]

i dont think so from what i read it is the only characteristic that stays from a ruderalls plant but i might be wrong but pretty sure thats what ive read

If you cross an auto with a reg seed and the auto trait is dominant ,the resulting seeds will all be autos as the dominant trait will show in a hybrid even if you get one allele auto and one light sensitive.
If you go onto cross the second generation of seeds with each other there will be an approx 25% chance of non auto plants.