Hey everybody, this is Shane McCormick from the cheap home grow podcast. It's my pleasure to introduce you to my close personal friend, Eric Robichaud from Green Goddess Supply. He's been on the show in the past when he's talked about his home grow chamber and today he comes on the show to talk about why he thinks Auto flowers on the future for home Growers like you and I he brings up some good valid points about autos and I feel you'll benefit from listening to what he has to say. Please remember to press subscribe. Go and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to the cheap home grow podcast a show for individuals that want to learn more about growing cannabis indoors. This is a podcast dedicated to helping you with your indoor growing Adventure. You'll learn how to grow your own and not have to rely on others for your medicine the cheap home grow podcast will also feature timely interviews. Use with cannabis industry veterans shaping the culture and politics of cannabis. All right here is your host Shane McCormick and the cheap home grow podcast. Hello everybody. This is Shane McCormick from the cheap home grow podcast. And on today's show. We are going to be talking about Auto flowers with the founder and CEO of Eric Robichaud of Green Goddess. They invented a grow box that targets Auto flowers. So I so I invited him on today. So Eric, if you would could you please tell my audience a little bit about yourself and then we can get right into the topic of Auto flowers. Yes. Thank you for having me today Shane. So as you mentioned I am the CEO of green to have a supply we started off about four years ago in the accessory business with Grinders and pipes and rolling. Is and storage boxes and sifter boxes and things like that and over the past four or five years the president of our company Vincent Betty has been prototyping a home grow chamber and it specifically tuned for auto flowers. And so we are as as we like to say quote unquote all in on auto flowers and real big fans of order flowers. So more than happy to sit here and talk about autoflowering. Our survey with sure. Well, you know, thank you for coming on the show. I do I do appreciate it. My pleasure. Yes. Now with that what that being said lets, you know, I mean prior to the recording here, we touched upon certain topics that you know that we both want to want to talk about the the the well the lighting the speed the hardiness the potency the yields and the Stress training as well and I'm sure will you know, we will discuss other things as well. But you know, you know going going I guess author that I mean what you know, I guess you know, my first question would be I mean, what are the typical Harvest times for somebody that wants to grow Auto flowers? Right? Right. Well, very very very very quick. Actually, you know what before we get into that. What am I if you don't mind? I'd like to step back a little bit and and frame this whole conversation with little ol history a little context. So the whole conversation sure most people thanks most people when you talk about cannabis and among casual users. I'm not insert necessarily saying about amongst Growers, but but certainly amongst casual users. Most people will say there are two broad subspecies of canvas, right? There's your indicas and your sativas. And then you have all these different strains they were up in cross cross breeds and so forth, but most people say, oh, you know, if you said how many types of cannabis are they not strange but you know subspecies most people would say to there's indica and sativa. And in fact, there's actually three the third one is called ruderalis and ruderalis is basically the the Genesis of this of the auto flower or the automatics as they're also called cannabis ruderalis. It's A Latin term that actually means ditch weed because in its normal native state, you know without breeding and so forth, you know, historically ruderalis is literally ditch weed hits closer to two hemp. If you will then then then like a sativa and indica the ruderalis had typically itself has very low potency very low THC and there's small little Bushy plants, you know, you're lucky to get an outside of them feel very low yield no potency. It's a crap product really in and of itself. Okay. The magic is that the ruderalis has several because of its genetics has several Behavior traits that are highly desirable highly desirable and and and folks have been you know, the the Breeders the genetics folks have been working on on breeding and crossbreeding ruderalis with your more traditional sativas and indicas to get some of the desirable attributes of the ruderalis, you know, sort of spliced into a normal sativa or indica. All right. So what I mean by this ruderalis the Ditch weed is is indigenous to Russia more up in towards Siberia. Okay, so it's north. If you would look on a map and you saw a like, you know, the Kush regions and stuff where it's warmer tropical, you know cannabis is used to growing in warmer climates and and you know, the higher humidities and so forth ruderalis. However, is that Hardy Russian sort of, you know, Darwin saliva, Of the fittest it's those cannabis seeds that the over over mutated over, you know millions of years to survive in cooler harsher climates. Okay. And so the net effect is that an auto flower plant has several attributes that are pretty desirable one is that they get their name from Auto flowers or automatics because they're not photo periodic like traditional. Cannabis plants. Okay. So for Growers when you're growing you have in your veg State and you're growing them and when you get to a certain point where now you want to induce blooming flowering you change your light cycle, right? So you're stimulating normal traditional cannabis drops and seeds in the spring grows, you know through the whole spring and Into Summer then starts flowering and then flowers and then by Fall, you know drop seeds and Sighs. Okay, and that's your that's the circle of life for cannabis plant. Make sure your formal outdoor grows. It can be, you know, seven to nine months as it goes through this whole process and what happens is with a normal photo periodic plant cannabis plant. It's going off of light cycles. So as you get into fall and you know, heading towards winter the days get shorter, so the plants noticed that when all the sudden they're not getting, you know, 18 hours of sunlight. Anymore and the days are getting shorter. They freaked out they stress out and they go oh, you know Falls coming and that's when they flower and and and then drop seeds and and you know prepare for the next season and died, right? So when you do an indoor grows, that's where you're controlling those lights, you're simulating the natural trip around the Sun for the Earth and you're so with order with oil flowers though, you know, dude. That they're more like a traditional house plant that just sort of grows blooms and dies on its own life time schedule. Sure. Okay. So the lighting doesn't matter you don't have to ever change the lighting. The other thing is they're used to growing in less humid environments. So humidity is much less of an issue and these sort of Russian the Siberian plants are just Logistics hardy hardy as hell. It just very Hardy Okay, so They don't care. I don't give a bleep. You know, they they humidity could be low temperatures can be lower light cycles. Don't matter. They just do their thing. Right and they do their thing incredibly fast Auto flowers can grow from from seed to harvest in 60 days traditional cannabis, you know a well outdoor grows and you talked in months and months and months all season long when you do when you're doing Inside grows and you're doing them in you know, three or four months, you know, you could be talking 60 to 90 days of flour. We're talking 60 days everything Veggie and flower. I mean right from seed. So it really fast. They also tend to be short and bushy more Squat and bushy than than like a traditional outdoor sativa, you know in Trends generally speaking, so What's happened is people have figured this out and there's been a lot of Leading Edge genetics work done out of Spain. They're really into Auto flowers in Spain and they've really been on The Cutting Edge of this and they started working on building their own cross breeds and and breeding plants that are your traditional indicas and sativas will all the terpene profile and and the boats petite she potency and You different CBD levels and so forth and getting that that normal, you know a train wreck or Granddaddy Purp or you know, whatever your strains are taking those strains and cross breeding them in such a way that you retain all of that you're taking the terpenes of the potency and all of that profile the cannabinoid profile. However, retaining some of the the characteristics of the oil flour to make them bloom and flower quickly and and And so forth. So what's happened is, you know, we like to say that you know this, you know the old commercial about you know, this isn't your Granddaddy's Oldsmobile, you know, or your father's Oldsmobile right? It's kind of like that autoflow this isn't it, you know, your father's order flowers what what you knew of order flowers and I'd say there's a huge swath of the public that just doesn't know anything about them is another huge chunk of people that have heard about it and know of them, but don't really know much detail and then there's another huge chunk of people that know of them and go off of what they know and they've read and there's a lot of negativity out there because you know, 10 years ago eight years ago, maybe even five years ago, you know issues with, you know, the genetics aren't necessarily stable or the potency was low or this or that or the other and those things are not necessarily incorrect, but, you know technology changes and and you know things have Rest and the state of the art today is that we have nice stable genetics in the auto flowers and they bring a tremendous number of benefits. Okay, we can talk about the truck watch some of those right? Yeah. Now what right I mean that's yeah. That's a good that's a good, you know a good topic. I mean what what are some benefits of growing with auto flowers, right? So we already hit on one which is the speed speed the exhaust You know, we're talkin we have strange that we drop a seed and one from Sprout, you know, 60 62 days later you done. I mean, even though on average like super Autos that grow extremely large and take longer these so-called super Autos are even you know, 92 on the outside is like 75 to 90 days drains. So and that has everything again veg and Bloom not just a not just flour. Our and so they move fast so that's really nice for indoor home grows. I mean, you can just keep turning these things, you know, every two months or two months and turning it bro, right so well, so I mean based on that math. I mean you can theoretically have six grows per year like you can yeah, you can harvest the six times. Right? Right, if you're pushing the envelope and they're all short in you and you're really moving you can jam in six I think so. You're right your mathematical. Correct more realistically though. We usually get four or five grows a good five because you know what'll happen is sometimes it might go, you know, 65 or 68 days. So it goes all the an extra week or and then you also have depends on how you doing. You're drying and curing like what we'll do our drying in the box. So that's three days of after it's all done, but we haven't started the next one yet because we're you know, so so there's some variables in there are using tensor using you know, how you Doing it you have multiple tens. Do you have your how you drying and but for someone doing like let's say just one plant at a time at home you've yes, you can get four to five harvests a year which is which is pretty pretty fantastic yields are for a single point yields a reasonable, especially in that time frame. Okay, we're getting you know, we and our box with our with our system and process or pretty Suddenly getting a quarter pound and we've gotten this highs just shy of half a pound on some of our some of our yields so would get yeah, so it's not like, you know, a lot of people think ruderalis like, you know order flowers are white skinny little puny plants. Maybe you're lucky to get an ounce, you know traditionally in the past. Yeah, but these days, you know, not so much we're pretty consistently getting 4 5 6 ounces out of a plant and you know weeks in like 60 days. What I mean Jesus, yeah. Yeah for the for the personal home grow now obviously that's that's not necessarily for you know, your Warehouse commercial Growers and dispensaries, you know, their massive grow operations and stuff. But but when you're when you're growing a single plant for personal home use or a couple of plants. Yeah, that's pretty phenomenal. You can grow because you know you and there's also a little bit of a trade-off to and we've been doing some of this math and you know, I haven't known some of this math Speed versus yield. This is the point to a smaller plant. But if you can get five of them a year, you're going to end up with with a lot more yield than you know, if you're getting you know, 50% more, you know, or whatever plant but they take three times longer, you know that sort of thing. So there's trade-offs in speed versus yield sure. But but yeah we're finding speed is is a huge thing. The the yields are these are for a personal home grow, you know, if you can get four five six ounces in 60 days, and now you've six days later, you've got you next one going the average the average personal home Growers. You're not going to smoke a pot. What's your Snoop Dogg? You know, you're not yet. You're not smoking that much that all of a sudden all of a sudden your next one's ready, you know and even for myself I'm a daily smoker and I grow a plant and I'm nice too. Half of it left and now the next one is ready and you know, so I've got I've always got jars from you know, five or six different Harvest that different, you know one's almost empty. The other ones have full the other ones told, you know, I have four jars from this one, but I have half a jar left that one well always have four or five different strains going because yeah, I mean just can't even you just get ahead of yourself. You can't even smoke that much, you know, absolutely and I mean, you know, and as you know, I mean my podcast it's called it's called cheap home grow. And I mean, it sounds like if you take the time to learn how to Show yourself. I mean you can get your money back within you know, maybe you know, maybe one grow. Oh, yeah. Yeah, when if you're if you stop you think about that just what it cost you to buy all the equipment and you know and delighting in the you know, whether you doing tents and lighting or you doing like our growth chamber or however you're doing it or just building, you know, building a room, whatever. Yeah, if you add up the cost of you know a tenth or and lighting and whatnot if you're getting Five ounces at an average street price now, obviously it varies by markets and all that stuff. But right now in the US average street price is around $300 an ounce, you know, you get 4 or 5 ounces. I mean that's twelve fifteen hundred dollars. So yeah, you you can theoretically yeah, we're versus going to dispensaries and pain, you know, and that sort of thing definitely pays for itself in the like as instantly as pretty much the first grow and then the by your second grow your way ahead of the game because now you've already bought all the equipment the second row is like what $40 and some sort and you know water and you know, so so yeah, it's definitely cost effective highly cost effective to do it yourself. All right, I mean we've well, you know some what what I always found interesting about Autos is the lighting aspect of growing with auto flowers now, I mean what what now I know you talked a little bit about this but I mean, you know, what is the typical light cycle? I guess one should Pay attention to when you're growing with Autos. Sure. Okay, and there's a lot of debate about this. So I'll say this the one key factor is that auto flowers are great for personal home use again. Not the professional who like has just eons of years of skill and expertise and you know full-time staff multiple people and all the electronics and monitoring sensors and this and that and just really going to town when you have personal home grower and especially if you just started Turn off auto flowers are really nice because like I said, they are so hardy they grow really fast and and I'll just speak to you for a second from the from the from the home grow, you know casual home grow perspective when the fact that they go fast really helps because you just have less time to screw up be honest, right? You know, it goes fast as it's done. It's okay. Okay, you're done. You know, it's not like this is this is you know, Four months where now you can have you know, these are the you know door or whatever or overload and problems and you know, the faster you go the the less the chances for basically screwing up like for being exactly which is which is helpful. I kind of laugh at that might make fun of it but it's more casual home grower. That's that's a that's a nice benefit. You know that Noble nor also hard here like if you screw up and you had a little too much, you know humidity to little humidity or you've got But it's a little too warm a little too cool. It's a little bit. There's a broader range of tolerance for these Auto flowers They're more Hardy plants. So that helps with the Casual home grower, you know, you have a little bit more leeway there not as you know, I'm not saying that you can go you can freeze the thing out or have it in, you know hundred degree temperatures either but but there's just it is just a greater leeway that is there more forgiving and the fact that they go So fast, it also means they use a lot less nutrients. Sure. Okay, and then the lighting dish there's they don't they don't care about the lighting right? So they're not using it for photo periodic purposes. You know, it's not like, you know, you have a power outage and it throws off your light cycle at home, you know, whatever and now all of a sudden you're screwed because you think starts blooming on you or whatever or or just whatever, you know, you're not going to run into these issues because it's just much more Hardy and it doesn't care about the life cycle so much. Much now that said there's a lot of debate with auto flowers. What is the right or the best and I put that in there quotes quote-unquote light cycle light. Yeah, like cycle what we do what I do. I do 18 and 6 18 hours on six hours off and light a nice long summers day. Okay. Sure. Is a lot of debate there are people who say and this the one thing that is true is that the light is the food? Okay, we use the term plant food and when we talk about nutrient stuff when we say plant food and all that stuff the light is the food. Okay, that's a key concept. The light is the food that's what the plant. Okay sure more fight you're going to get bigger bigger plants bigger yield as a general rule. Okay. So now Now people will push it and do like 20 hours on and forth instead of 18 6. They'll do 20 and 4 and there are people that push the extreme and say e 24 hours just never turn off the lights just go just just blast them get you'll get the best yields and there are people who swear that, you know, I've never had a problem and you know, you've seen online forums and so forth and it's really funny, you know with Growers and stuff. It's kind of a Community in certain ways. I love the community very very generous. You know people always like, you know swapping we go to these different trade shows and stuff people always swap. It baggies of a here. Here's my latest girl with yourself a mine and you know and very very free with advice and thoughts and it's a great community and the flip side though. I will say we've also noticed like especially in online forums and stuff when it comes to Growing. It's so open ended everybody's a know-it-all everybody. D so you'll hear people arguing, you know, the in 24 hours you get the best deals. It's always been fine for me. He always been fine for me. Obviously. I don't know. I don't have a benchmark against what they're doing and versus what they could be doing. And is it good but you know, you take take it. Okay that you know, everyone has their own experiences and at the end of the day, you know, do it works for you but what we found and and working with experts and botanists and so forth plants are living Things and they need time to rest and they and what happens is yes, you can you will get bigger yields with a 24-hour light cycle and will more light is more yield. That is true. However that stresses the plant out if it never ever ever has a chance to rest that will stress the plant out and you'll have weaker immune systems and other issues so you can be more prone to disease problems. You can be more prone to other issues. So there are trade-offs. We find for the healthiest strongest plants, etcetera, etcetera. We like to do 18 and 6 anybody who does XX + 4 I think it's personal preference. And personally I have nothing to say I'm like, okay right go, you know, the people would do in 24 hours straight with no break. We do push back on that and again, you know, it's a lot of it's anecdotal and but Well, like I said all the experts I thought to and botanist and so forth, you know, it is a living thing and it needs time to rest and there's a lot of debate but there's a lot of thinking right now that also with photos with oil flowers. I mean versus photos that a lot of their photosynthesis and food processing the roots are a lot more involved in underground a lot more involved process than with more traditional cannabis, and it's not fully understood. Good, but it is this thinking that there's a lot more going on and it needs dark periods that it just does so we do 18 and 6 but like I said, 20 20 and 4 will be fine, but we don't really recommend a 24-hour like cycle. Okay. All right, and and you know one I guess one final thing that I would like I would like to talk about is is when it comes to Otto's is stress training. I mean, how does one effectively stress strain? When you are growing Auto flowers, right, right, so it is different order flowers are very different. And and and again there's a lot of debate going back and forth about you know, stress training and and and defoliating and and so forth the general conventional wisdom is that you know, you're not topping you don't top of them you we do low-stress training not high stressed. And with Autos what we have found and like anything else you can push things your results May Vary a little bit depending on other things you're doing but in general we find that the more, you know, you don't top them because they'll basically they'll die. They are life cycles. It comes down to this. The life cycle is so short that that and they move so fast that when you're trying to do, you know like with topping and and And you know all your different defoliation and pruning techniques and stuff. They don't have enough to express the planet. It doesn't have enough recovery time that they just move so fast, it's not like you have you know months for you know weeks or months for the for the for this plant to go through it stress phase and kind of recover. So what happens is when you do those things you start compromising the immune system of the plant that can lead to all kinds of other problems with disease and pests. And it can lead to you know, lower uptake nutrients and all kinds of things. And so what we do is low straight what we call low stress training technique. Okay, and I've done tests like, you know little again, you know, you get your folks in the forum's everyone to know it. All right, everyone knows everything you feel like you're not the bullying enough. You do folio. You can't believe I put all the time more aggressive and we've done we've done tests I've done Um of myself have two plants growing side by side planted seeds at the same day. They sprouted the same day. They're exactly on the same time frame the same clock now, I obviously even with the same genetics, you know, it's just like people and I use the analogy all the time my kids. I have twins. Hmm. But the same biological parent. So born on the same day. They were twins right chemical environments identical everything, right and they're completely different ones a boy wants a girl ones tall ones short It just different they're completely different. Okay, so no, even the same strain getting seeds from the same plant and you drop them. They can grow different so I get that but in broader Strokes we've got I've done enough of my own seen it with my own eyes that when I'm more aggressively are defoliating and getting more aggressive with a plant it leads to smaller yields, and I have a plant that I that I've been fooling around with right now. I'm doing it on purpose. I really soup. I've been super super super aggressive with it and we'll see when it's done. But I'm expecting I'm it's going to be the lowest yield ever probably by half. I'm gonna get like two ounces out of that thing. I think and I haven't gotten under for on any of my plants. I'm always getting 4 5 6. I think I'm gonna get to on this one, but it was an experiment and I went and went bananas and I really really was aggressive. I'm getting big fat buds, but I've got like maybe six tops. Normally, normally I've got you know, 12 14 18 tops. So it's been it's been interesting. Yeah, it's very sparse plant. It's a small plant a mother even get about 2 ounces. I'm estimating. So it's you know, there's trade-offs. What we usually do is low-stress training. What we'll do is we will do things like use bamboo Stakes pull the plant apart pull it out at like, you know, some of the some of the colons will pull them out at a 45 degree. Degree angle, let's the light get deeper down into the middle and let some of the smaller ones grow up and create kind of like new tops take the main stem bend it over at a 90 degree angle and then let the the branches become new tops. So we'll do you know in stake it down. So we'll do some of those things. We're bending the the tree and pulling it apart and and that's all part of that low-stress training. You want to create short bushes. You don't want like Christmas tree you want a bush, you know, you don't want a tall legging, you know, sort of been though going straight up that's six feet tall. You want to you want to pull it apart. So we do that on purpose in the main stem will bend it over, you know be about 3/4 inches were up from the soil you bend it over a 90 degree angle. And now all of a sudden it creates a whole bunch of new shoots, you know, they the branches turn around and create new tops and grow up and you keeping it short and squat and fat. Okay, and and that Helps with your yields and and then we talk, you know, we do a lot of talking about know what you have your buds. Right? And then you have these fan leaves big fan leaves and you know, you need those for photosynthesis and and you know, we're taking the light converting and making food from the light right there a t-shirt now those least that's the way aggressive defoliation take too many of that off. Then you have less food generates food. Now, what now? What does the what does the talking? You exactly does it does it basically give the plant more food is I would just said yes. Oh, so what happens is what I mean by talking is we literally take like say you have a big family, right? They can be the size of your hand like, yeah, open your palm and spread your fingers across make a big like I5 shut Fred wide. Well, you have a family that big on one of these plants, right? Sure. So you have this button those fan leaves, you know, they create shade. So what happens is everything under is getting blocked from the light now well, well instead of defoliating meaning actually like when you if you would defoliate that basically the way I do it you can use pruning scissors and stuff. But I just use my thumb and my index finger and just take that stem right right go right down to wear to the to the to the crotch of where that that leaf meets the stem and you just pinch it and just pinch it off you like like break it off, right? All right, okay if it's so small and so thin and And they're you know, they're not hard. I mean it's not hard at all so you can just slide down there and just pinch it off and just you cut it, you know, just what your fingernails well if you actually remove that leaf now you let in more light down into it, but you've also removed part of its food factory right part of History, you know, the photosynthesis and stuff going on with those leaves. So so you've allowed more light in but the trade-off is you know you You kill in food production. So instead what we do is we tuck it down underneath like a literally just bend it down. Usually it you can't do that. If the plan is very very sparse. There's nothing to tuck it to but as it starts getting thicker and thicker and filling out you can come down and tuck it under and let it cook down between the branches. So now it's out of the way it's not blocking the light from the lower nugs anymore. Hmm But the plan but that leaf is still there catching light and producing. You know doing it photosynthesis and producing food for the plant down and away, right? Okay. All right, Eric. Well, I mean we've talked about lighting potency yields training the actual speed of growing Arts gives me the speed when it comes to Growing With Autos. I mean and I guess as a final question, is there any is are there any other questions that I should be asking or any final statements that you would like to make? Yeah, basically two things I'll touch on real quick is that another benefit of Autos is that you don't go through nearly as much nutrients and and in some cases depending on the strain and how fast they move and is a little bit strained dependent but we have a lot of them I'd say I'm just totally making this up now, but you know just kind of from the gut I'd say probably 60 or 70 percent of the plants that I've grown or more 80% of the plan. So I've grown, you know, you they don't even go there. all the nutrients like if you start off with a super soil, you know with all loaded up with your nutrients they grow so fast, they don't even deplete all the nutrients by the time they're done really so it just makes it really easy to grow these Auto flowers and again for the home user, you know, you may need to supplement, you know with some nutrients are some Bloom food or whatever towards the end, but it's not like traditional cannabis where you're just into that from day one or you know, you're growing in a Coco medium and you're putting it in Hydroponics and you have to measure in all your nutrients from day one. It's just much simpler, but for the home grow and to give you touched on potency and I'll just underscore that first one quick second and say that in this day and age, you know, what I go to these trade shows and stuff and I walk around see seed banks. I'll ask them. Do you so Lodo's and they're like, no man. No, man, and I'll be like, oh, all right, and they'll and sometimes they'll be like, you know, a lot of them. They just selling regulars, right and a lot of them they'll be home and we don't we don't sell. As you know, we were all we only deal with stable genetics. Well, okay five years ago. That was a valid argument today. There are plenty of stable genetics and you know, that's kind of old information and then the and I mean, it depends on who you're going to and you know, but if you get a good Bri, you go into a like in the Sisto or fast buds on to Spain and some of these guys, you know, they're they have good stable genetics. The the other thing is we talked about Yields, and potency yields of come way up and potency. You really can't tell a difference between an auto flower and a regular traditional. You know, if you're white widow you Northern Lights or whatever. We've been taking them for testing. I've been doing testing and I'm I think the lowest I've gotten was run 19 percent THC concentration and which you know, that's my lowest and and that's you know, pretty darn good. That's a nice sweet. I mean back in the day in the 70s. 80s and the Cheech and Chong days. They were spoken 10 and 12 percent THC week, you know Norm, you know, so our low as you know around that 18-point something 19 percent and we're getting 20 22 24 routinely on these things. So potency is not an issue there, you know at all. And so, you know, I really think that we go so far as to say, I think that oil flowers are kind of the wave of the future as people get more familiar with them start realizing more and more. Or that, you know the potencies there there you really you know, and a blindfold test you wouldn't be able to tell the difference in the end results because you're with crossbreeding, you know, the genetics, you know, the these breeders are their crossbred sure. So you're getting the same terpene profiles and cannabinoid profiles and so forth and and they just grow faster. They're a lot more forgiving with like screw-ups with lighting or humidity and temperature. Things like that and they just a lot easier to go. So I you know, we're finding more and more as people start realizing and discovering this and we're seeing it online on the forms with people are saying well, I just tried my first this was awesome. I just try my first Auto this was my first automatic. You know, this was great. I'm getting more and so I think it is the word future. All right Eric. Um, yeah, man, we'll listen. I do appreciate I do appreciate coming on the show and you know, and I know you've been on the Show once before but listen, man, I would I hope to have you on in the in the near future. Absolutely. It's my pleasure, and you have to have a topic that you want to discuss some more unhappy. Mmm God. Thank you very much. Thanks. Have a great day. Hey everybody. 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It's my pleasure to bring on my close friend Eric Robichaud from Green Goddess Supply Company. To give you a little background about Eric, he's a Rhode Island entrepreneur and has had many successful business endeavors in his business life. His past company Rhode Island Software Systems even has it's own Wikipedia page. Eric comes on the show today to talk about why he thinks autoflowers are going to be the wave of the future for cannabis home growers. He makes valid arguments as to why he thinks so and one of his main points was autoflowers give the home grower less time to mess up there grows. There's been a lot of talk in the past about the stability of autoflower genetics coming into question in the past years but he points out there's been a tremendous amount of progress on this front coming out of Spain. I feel your going to enjoy this conversation between Eric and I and the information he provides is going to be extremely benefital. 