To begin, a big disclaimer:

I have not ever, and do not currently, grow Lowryder or any of its relatives.

That being said, I want to give my several cents' worth of opinion about autoflowering strains in general.

Why would you want an autoflowering strain?
Well, that is the easy one.
There are a couple of really specific situations in which you would really benefit from growing one.
1) You grow outdoors above the Arctic Circle (or below the Antarctic circle, with the penguins, lol!). The summer days are extemely long, but by the time you wait for the daylight period to shorten, frost is not too far away... so you would benefit from a strain that you can get to start flowering right around the summer solstice and finish quickly.
2) You are ridiculously limited in space yet still want to do a perpetual-harvest grow, and you only have 1 room to do it in. In this case, it is also an appropriate choice. Perpetual harvests IMHO are the most satisfying grow setup!
3) You're a greenhouse grower in a temperate area, you don't have a darkening system, and you want to do 2 harvests per summer
4) You live in low latitudes and just want to keep pulling down crops all year regardless of light cycle

That's pretty much the list...

The drawbacks are the strains reputation for boring flavor and puniness.

And the seeds are outrageously expensive for the end result.

Another major drawback to remember is that you cannot as far as I have ever heard, cannot clone the beast. It sprouts, it flowers, it dies... the same set-in-stone life cycle that makes it flower earlier prevents you being able to clone it in veg and keep a mother vegging indefinitely.

Well that's it! Just a little ramble!

stinkyattic Reviewed by stinkyattic on . The 'What is wrong with Lowryder' thread =p To begin, a big disclaimer: I have not ever, and do not currently, grow Lowryder or any of its relatives. That being said, I want to give my several cents' worth of opinion about autoflowering strains in general. Why would you want an autoflowering strain? Well, that is the easy one. There are a couple of really specific situations in which you would really benefit from growing one. 1) You grow outdoors above the Arctic Circle (or below the Antarctic circle, with the penguins, Rating: 5