Hello cheap homegrown Nation. This is Shea McCormick from the cheap home grow podcast. And on today's show. I have award-winning author and lecturer Jeff lowenthal's he's written many books in his past including his famous teaming series specifically teaming with microbes teeming with nutrients and teeming with fungi today. He comes on the a show to talk about his new book called DIY autoflowering cannabis and easy way to grow your own during this podcast episode Jeff brought up many important topics regarding Auto flowers, but the essential topic he brought up was his belief that autoflowering cannabis will be the future for cannabis Growers Home and Commercial Growers alike. Also during this podcast episode. Jeff debunked a lot of rumors that many photo period Growers often assume about Auto flowers including cloning. This podcast is filled with quality information about Auto flowers, and why you as a home grower should seriously consider growing Auto flowers. Please remember to press subscribe 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 homegirl podcast will also feature timely interviews 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 Shea McCormick from the cheap home grow podcast and on today's show. We have renowned author Jeff low on Fells. He has written many books in his past the the teeming with microbes series you have what teeming with nutrients teaming with microbes in the Organics or excuse me, the organic Growers guide to my coryza and Jeffrey on Today Show. You are going to be talking about your new book about Auto flowers and the you know, so Jeffrey if you could could you Please, you know tell my audience a little bit about yourself and then we can get right into the meat of the of the conversation. Sure. Well, I as you noted I have three books that apply to all plants, but I think they specifically applied to cannabis teaming with microbes teaming with nutrients team with fungi known as the teeming series, which I started in 2006. The last book came out in 2000. 17 to Trilogy, you know, so I like to call myself Lord of The Roots. I'm a retired attorney businessman. And basically what I do now is I study soil I advise cannabis Growers around the country and I write books and so that's kind of a quick summary. I live in Anchorage Alaska pretty far away and I write a weekly Garden column which I've been doing for about About 43 years never missed a week. So that makes me the longest-running Garden columnist in the world and that that into sense will get you absolutely nothing nothing. Yeah. So anyway, that's that's sort of my background and one one day A couple of years ago. I was with a friend of mine and gentleman named Tom Alexander who some of your some of your listeners may know he's a Woman that started a little little rag sheet hundred years ago called sensimilla tips. He popularized the word sinsemilla and he told people how to grow cannabis and morphed into a couple of magazines and today. He's just an old guy like me and he showed me an auto flowering cannabis plant about four or five years ago, and it was a life-changing experience. So I was result of that. That I started to try to grow a couple and fool around with them and ultimately came to the conclusion based upon the fact that I that I am a garden writer for General gardeners yard nurse people who take care of their homes and their vegetable garden that kind of stuff. I'm convinced that autoflowering cannabis is the next tomato and it's going to it's going to be very very popular and I wrote this book not for you because you're probably an experience grower. But I really wrote it for your mother who would grow a tomato, but would never think about cannabis because she doesn't know anything about it and she's scared of it. So so it's an interesting little book and it's you can order it on Amazon today. It's called do-it-yourself cannabis a new way to grow or do it yourself autoflowering cannabis, but it's not out until October 22nd, but there you go. So in a nutshell, that's what's going on. Great. Well, Jeff, listen, man, uh, you know, thank you for coming on the show. I and I'm quite positive. My listeners really do appreciate it. But really I have you know, my first question is I mean well why autoflowering cannabis, I mean, what about Auto flowers made you want to write this book? I mean sure what's so I guess transformative about, you know, growing Auto flowers, right? Well, it's an interesting. Experience growing up and having just having stumbled on them fascinating. And so so here's the problem if you want to grow regular cannabis which which which is either indica or sativa, you got to deal with plants that are first of all fairly large and and some of them can be quite large, you know, you can get you can get some of these plants up to 18 feet tall. So it's not a plant you definitely want to grow in your deck. It's not a plant. You necessarily want to grow in a garden it takes up too much room. It's not Escape Plan is a difficult plant to grow in terms of size. It's a difficult plant to grow in terms of harvest because it requires that you have nights that are longer than days and that means you can't Harvest if you're growing outside until after the equinox and and in many places particularly like places like Anchorage Alaska that coincides with when the temperature starts to get too cool for these things to try I've and so it's very very difficult. If you're if you're in you know, not equatorial places to grow a great crop. These plants have been bred. So that some of them take seven to nine months to actually come to harvest and and then and then finally, you know, they're just they're just difficult plants to grow. So so those things, you know sort of make make cannabis a plant that a professional might grow a real hobby hobby hobby type person would grow. Um, but but not my mother I can tell you that right now she'll grow a tomato, but she will grow cannabis plant. So Along Comes a new discovery. What happened was someone bread regular sativa and indica cannabis plants with a third kind of cannabis that most people don't know about called Rudy Alice. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. No. Now this was the history of this is interesting because this particular variety of cannabis developed as a result of seeds escaping from plantations in Northern environments and you know taking hold and then suddenly realizing wait a minute. It's getting awfully cold and I haven't had my photo period yet, but I want to survive and so evolution is created plants that are able to flower before the night. Get longer than the days. These are non photo period plants they are genetically they flower based upon their genetics not upon the length of the day and what that means is you can grow indoors Outdoors any time of the year under any kind of light duration and they'll still flour based on their genetics and what's even better is that the genetics are such that they They bloom and you can Harvest them. So in other words they go from seed to harvest in seven to nine weeks weeks not months. Right? Wow, that is you know that automatically solves the problems in the really Alice plant was a very small little scrubby little plant was discovered in about or first stumbled upon least these publicly and around 1900. Guy was up in Russia. And he was working in the Volga River area and he stumbled upon these little plants and you know, but they didn't have very much they didn't have any teeth seeing them actually and you know, so they really didn't have any really used form. But but people fooled around with them a little bit and then in 2001 or so the first commercials started to come out okay, and they weren't very good, but they were very cute little plants, right? So that's the third. Third link they're small. They're like tomato plants, right so you can grow them on a deck. You can grow them indoors Outdoors. You can grow in your vegetable garden, they're terrific little plants. So there you go. That's it and they kept getting better in terms of their THC context in the CBD content, right? Yeah. Well, that's that's what I wanted to to to ask you Jeff. I mean, you know, I've had a lot of excuse me. I've had a lot of Of cannabis Growers on my show and I mean quite frankly a lot of them don't like growing Auto flowers because they they often cite that the you know that the THC count is is extremely low and I always, you know, well, I pretty much always state that you know, that was once true but now that's not so true anymore. I mean, so I didn't correct, you know, I mean right well, is that a fair? Even for me to make or absolutely off there. No, absolutely. It's a very fair statement to me what's happened just in the past three or four years is the breeding efforts of increased exponentially and people have done some fun nominal work. So when you when you get a plant today, you can't tell whether whether the the cola comes from a normal flower when it comes from a from a photoperiod. You just can't tell the THC counselor. 7% just like in the light just like in the bigger plants and so it really is quite remarkable. What's happened the breeding efforts. Wow, and it makes sense when you think about it. I mean, they only take seven to nine weeks so you can breed like crazy, you know, which which really is exciting because we need to be breeding backwards to get landrace type characteristics. We need to we need to get rid of some of the indica. Or the hash characteristics which have been bred into our car bigger cannabis plants and get back to you know, really having some real interesting cannabis plants and that's what's that's what's going on in this particular area. I totally know what you mean. They're Jeff and you know, I guess one of the the biggest cons of Auto flowers is that you cannot clone them now, I mean, what do you have to say about that? Well you you actually can clone them. But the question is why would you want to hmm? I mean you're getting a harvest in nine weeks, right? Wow, that's pretty amazing. You know, I think I think what people need to do is they need to take a look on the internet and take a look at some of the some of the available stock. So for example, and you know, I'm given names out. I think I hope it's okay. If you go to mephesto genetics.com sure. Okay. Yes, if Go to them either on their website or if you go to them on Instagram mephesto genetics that cam you will see plants that will just blow your mind half and the varieties are very very similar in many ways because they're bred from the bigger cousins. The this ATIV is in the indicus. And so, you know, you find a lot of them a lot of similarities in the names which indicates similarity in the you know in the effect so to speak but so it's really The incredible in Oregon there's a company called New Breed seeds. Well worth going to look at their website as well. They actually sell I think almost exclusively to commercial Growers. That's how good their stuff is. There's a phrase that's been coined called Super Auto flower plants. They're really the same thing. They are autoflowering. Nice. They just call them super water Philippines because they're pretty big they can be, you know, three three or four feet. And man, the yield on them is spectacular absolutely spectacular. So so of commercial people are using them you can believe them. This is a plant you want to have right me what Auto flower strains. Did you work with when writing your book and what strains would you recommend and why? Yeah. Well, you know, I don't even remember. I don't even remember the names of the ones I had I don't even think they had names like I got them from New Breed seeds. They were spectacular. But since then, of course, I've been accumulating a list of different places where you can buy this he's one of the things in the book will be in the last chapter is a list of of all the places at least of as of this writing that I think you can get them. So here's what I would I would suggest that people might want to do is they might want to go to a place called AF and I think it's AF autoflowering Network. Okay now the autoflowering network Has a terrific bunch of Growers who are fascinated by autoflowering and so they've got quite a lively group with a lot of great information on it. You will find almost all of the Breeders there. So there is a site that you definitely want to go to the mephesto. The festo site mephesto genetics is when you want. To take a look at in fact, you know, what you can just basically do is you can just type in autoflowering seeds and and they'll all pop up. Okay fair enough and I guess I think people will be completely blown away. I mean if you're if you're looking for something with high CBD, it's there you're looking for, you know Orange Orange Crush. It's there you're looking for something that tastes like grape. They got it and they got ya and actually I'm on the I'm on the website now. That is that Is auto flower dotnet good good, right, I believe that's I believe that's the site that you were talking about. Right? Right. Right, right. And and and what you can do there is you can track grows others it all sorts of advice. There's a section on lighting all of which of course is covered in the book. But but these guys are really pros at what they do. Now. The aim of the book again was was to get your mother involved in this stuff. You know, we I I am convinced. This is a plant that's going to be so exciting to people cannabis. The stigma is falling away as we all know people are you know growing it in their backyards? There's all sorts of books on the cake coffee table books about pretty flowers on this is going to be just a great little how-to thing for people to pick up and run with it because it's a very easy plant to grow. In fact, if you use too much fertilizer the plant doesn't grow well right now, so it's one of these things You can take your stuff whatever soil you've got around and you grow a couple of them and you figure it out. It's very it's and you can breed your own. It's just going to be a terrific new hobby Jeff. I mean would you say that auto flowers are they the future for home Growers? Yes, most definitely most definitely wise because again the size the lack of photo period you can grow them indoors and go Outdoors. If you're already growing regular size cannabis you grow these plants in between your other plants no matter whether you're in bed your flower State. It's you know, it's just going to I am convinced people are going to say wow. This is fabulous. I grow my own and grow different kinds just like a tomato. It is a tomato like plant and and where I come from in the general gardening world to have a new plant. Reduce it only happens once or twice in a lifetime. So I'm 70 years old in my lifetime. We've had snap peas sugar snap peas were introduced and they made a big difference people grew grew my crazy and still do this is going to be a similar kind of situation. This is a plant people are going to be able to buy the seeds. They're going to be able to go to Lowe's and to Value and Ace and pick up, you know packets of seeds are going to be able to go to their local Nursery by starts. You'll be able to run their supermarket when they go through there and they have all those flowers and you know, amaryllis plants and everything. They did not find during a couple of Seasons special all o flower plants Christmas ones Easter ones. It's it's going to be spectacular. I'm convinced. This is the future of guard of gardening. Not of cannabis really. Well. Well, what do you what do you mean by that? Exactly? Well, I mean that regular gardeners are going to grow this plant. A garden cause I write a garden column from your mother, you know right in the Anchorage Daily News, right? Yeah, and and and people are going to say, oh, I'll go that plant just like they say the same thing when I say why don't you try growing an heirloom tomato instead of an F1, you know, and I'm convinced it's going to be a plant that people going to have it going to grow it on their decks on their balconies in their condos Outdoors indoors. It's such an easy plant to grow and attractive too. Mmm, right. Yeah. No, I grew my first Auto flower plants. I germinated seed at the beginning of the year. I believe it was January 3rd and by I want to say I don't have my grill journal in front of me, but I want to say boy, I think by by like the end of March I was pretty much done. So yeah, you know, yeah. Yeah, I mean, they start flowering to nap two and a half three weeks right? Wow, exactly. So and And it was it was it I mean it was great. So, I mean, I don't have any I don't have any complaints and and and really in Jeffrey in an effort of full disclosure. Yeah. I am a I am a new or I guess relatively new home growing. I'm not I haven't been you know, I've only been around a plant say around like maybe like a few years now, but it's since since launching my podcast and releasing a show per week. I have only Taken growing. Seriously. So really in Earnest. I've I've been taking this, you know taking growing seriously for about maybe seven or eight. Yeah seven, maybe maybe eight months. So yeah, you know, it's it mean really I mean I've to to grow what I did in the in the time span that I did it was I mean, it was extremely simple very very easy. You know, so I mean, I I really do understand where you are coming from. Yeah, and I think people can get this plant and you can do as much on it as they want or as little as they want. So for example, you know, I tell people the first time you get one of these the first couple times you grow. Don't pinch it. Don't try to train it, you know, nothing just let it grow you plant it in the Apothic just going to spend its entire life in initially at least you don't fertilize I am I'm a big fan of the of the rezo fag is in to recede. He's mycorrhizal fungus. I think that's important. But but other than that, good light and the right temperature, you know something in the 75 to 80 86 degree area there and you know, that's it step away and let the plant do its thing. It's an auto flower Auto grower, right and and you know, Jeff I I emailed you really a bunch of growing questions. Frankly, I don't I don't know if we're going to get to to every single one of them, but you did bring up a couple of topics there about lighting and about feeding. I mean, so if you are growing Auto flowers at home, you know in in your opinion, you know what I mean? You know, how should you feed them? And what light cycle would you recommend sure that a grower should grow their should grow their plants in Right. Well as far as the light cycle is concerned as I sit in a growing any light cycle T. They flower based upon the genetics not based upon the light but as you and I know you want to have a good plant you have to give it adequate light. So it's got to have at least adequate light in the instance of how do you want to get the best plant? You possibly can I advise people 20 18 to 20 hours of light you could you could grow these things. 24-hour light, right? Yeah and many and many people do just because it's easier but but I like to give them a little bit of a rest because I think the plant does stuff in the resting period so 24 hours 20 18 to 24 hours is the way to go. All right fair enough. So that's that's the lighting now as far as feeding. As far as the feeding is concerned at least initially. I would just I would just back off and not feed it all and see how it's doing. It'll tell you when it needs food and you'll notice but but generally it really don't need to feed him. If you're using a good potting soil good compost fill potting soil, you know a good a good moving soil. You're not going to have a problem at all. Really and that's the key. Keith at me of course because I'm an organic grower and I've got three books on organic growing and then I am a proponent of the soil food web. These are plants you want to grow organically not chemically, right? You know, they got a short life. Let them live at the best they can right. Right, right. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, I mean, all right, so so don't so basically don't feel well, I mean feed your flowers, but but only do it when they you know, when they look like they need Need to be fed, pretty much. Yeah, I mean, I mean certainly the first three three weeks or so for weeks. Then I got the seeds got you know has provided them. A lot of in the soils got enough maybe when it starts to get into flour, you know, they might they made they may tend to look like they might need a little a little little help but probably not probably not. Well I tend to use is a real good compost mix and it's good got, you know, it's just good compost and I never need to fertilize. Let's delve deep a little bit there. I mean what type of compost mixed do you use? Well, we have a special special soil up here called Alaska Eunice. It's naturally made compost. It's you know, 10,000 years old thaws out every summer freezes every winter tremendous microbiology a sort of a gold standard for making compost tea. It's got the highest microbiology you'll find anywhere and so that's what I use. I mix that with some choir, you know. Sometimes I'll use a little perlite and that's the best sometimes I'll throw in a little sand and that's it. That's it. This is you know the rate and that what I would tell people again it particularly if I were saying that my mom listen, you know, go to the store and buy the best potting soil. You can't you just go and buy some some real good parties right. Now. What I would tell your listeners is go to a grocery store sure and ask them what they had. You know, what? Advice and Brian. Yeah, they've been they've been selling potting soil the auto flower Growers for a long long time. But any of the popular brands will do fine will do just fine again. Make sure it's organic. Exactly and and Jeff you you brought up a good topic there in terms of soil and I have a question here for you as as a soil guy. I have to ask you this question, right? It isn't is there a difference between soil for photo types and auto flowers? So I use the same soil myself. So I've never had any problems at all. So, you know, the only difference is when I grow my larger plants. I definitely had nutrients. Okay, right. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Now, you know again you want to make sure your soils good, you know, it has to have good drainage good soil structure. And that's of course what part of the living component puts into it. It's got its got to you know, it's It's got to be able to support the plant and that's that's what you want. So I have to tell you incidentally I also reuse my soil. I'm not one that goes my soil out each grow. Oh really? I reuse the soil and sometimes what I'll do is I'll just simply I'll cut the plant as I'm as I'm you know, harvesting at the base leave the root system in the soil. Hmm. Okay, and simply simply plant the new plant right in that soil The Roots. To grow along the existing, you know Pathways of the old roots the extra dates that you know that the old roots put out into the soil or still there blah blah blah. So it's all it's all very very good way to go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah now at the same time you want to make sure that the containers the right size. You don't want it too big. You don't want it too small and because these things grow so fast, you don't want to ever have the root system, you know. Put into a situation where it's going to going to have to delay itself in terms of expanding. So that's what happens when a plant grows into a pot. It begins to touch the side walls. Then you transplant it transplanting. It tends to mess up the system a little bit and it takes, you know, three three to five to seven days for the plant to recover from the transplanting and start to grow again. So what you want to do is plant the plant in the original pot or the pot that you're going to grow in for. Entire life anywhere from about five for normals or no flowers 5 to 7 gallons. Okay. Alright, so, you know your pick witness Hardware bucket, you know kind of thing would be fine. Make sure it has adequate drainage and you're good to go. Okay. Yeah. Well, you know some I'm glad you I'm glad you said that because my my next question for you was can you or should you transplant your auto flowers? And I think you pretty much just Summed up that one so yeah, no no, no. No, we're okay. Alright, so I feel on that one right one more time. No, no exactly. Well, I mean I you know, I've read that if you do that you basically shock now correct me if I'm wrong, but you shocked the implant-- and it just and it's I mean since it has such a short life, it just cannot recover and you're pretty much screwed. Well, you know I hate to do math, but if you but if you do the math, you lose a week at a time. That's a chunk of that plant's life when they're only has you know, seven or nine weeks for aah now some of these players I keep saying seven to nine weeks some of these plants you you can buy seeds. Some of them will take 10 11 12 weeks, but but but again that information is all now available, you know, so the Breeders have taken the guesswork out of it the labels. It's just my mother's going to be well, unfortunately, My mother is no longer alive, but my mother would have been so thrilled to be able to just simply go to the store and read the back of the package tells you everything you need to know. Wow, you know, it's just terrific terrific terrific and you know now people are breathing in CBD because that's become so popular, you know, people are beating and CBG. It's just all sorts of stuff and I'm convinced that when the government finally gets off. Everybody's back in the research takes Off these are going to be the plants that people are going to use the standard for research purposes. They're that good really. Yeah, they're that good and and and again because you can greet them so quickly, you know, they're going to make mix so much so much difference in the in terms of what were able to do right? Well so so so for example, okay getting sorry. I'm sorry, but but but the New Breed seeds people, you know, they were initial plans had a terrible problem. For some reason the powdery mildew, right man. Oh man, you can breathe it out, but these and it doesn't take 12 years. And so they work like crazy and they're able to take plants and you know get get to where you want to be and it's happened. So so again, I say to the listeners that are skeptical don't be skeptical anymore. Give it a second try it's not this is not the old Auto flowers of the Of the you know, 2005-2010 is a completely different plant completely new Beast exactly. Right? Well as I like to say there's a new bud in town, right? Exactly. Yeah. There's a new button town did indeed. All right. Well, well Jeff, I'll tell you what. I mean. I have a few more questions for you. If you don't mind. I know, you know, you're busy guy. I don't want to take up, you know your entire day. No problem, but would you You say our I mean you said that you can grow Auto flowers indoors and out. But are they I mean in your opinion, what are they best suited for indoors or Outdoors is growing. You know, I can't really choose one of the other okay, but I will say this I love growing Outdoors. Hmm. We spend an awful lot of time as Growers trying to duplicate the conditions. Outdoors indoors so so you know, why are we doing? That's because going Outdoors is the natural way. And so I really like doing that second best would be growing in an unheated Greenhouse Outdoors, you know with natural light no supplemental light and the other kind of stuff. It's just make some terrific plants. But but this, you know, it's awfully fun of the middle of the winter to be able to open up the tent and take a look at your little babies as they grow right exactly. Lee, all right. I mean I'll tell you what in terms of yield we would you say that a sea of green is the is the Beth, excuse me is the best method for yielding. Well, you know, you know, it's hard to say because they the plants would be bred so much right in, you know, some of them just Branch naturally and it's just spectacular but but I would say in general. Yeah, it's pretty suuuuure pretty cool thing to do and it really makes me. Some terrific little coalesce. All right, huh, really some Beauties, uh, one of the one of the ones that new breed sees I keep seat and I think I have a picture of it in the book and then there's one from the festival there's one from the festival is just a cola for from from a plant that I tracked and I think it's 80 grams. Okay. That's a nice. That's a nice size Cola. It's you know, it's the size of a guy's hand twice. Nice, right. Yeah, that's a wow. Yeah, that's that's that's that's that's pretty huge. I have to say that's yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep, and they're beautiful plants are just spectacular place. That's why I say, I think I think you're going to find you know, just like we find a Christmas you find these little miniature evergreen trees. We're going to find mediator, you know autoflowering cannabis plant soil that you're safe way. It's your Albertsons. You know what I mean? You know, it's just unfortunate. Today, we're going to find all these little special plants these it's coming the stigma is going to go away just like it has in in the places, you know like, Colorado Oregon going away in Alaska. It's going to go it's going to go. Yeah, the the the world or you know, America is changing its views on on cannabis and specifically Auto flowers well on cannabis in general and And then when people hear about all the flowers at that changes, well, I think people people are getting this story T. Where's there's no science to the idea that we Bandit. It was all Harry anslinger. What the heck what we thinking right? You know the American Medical Association was against it what happened, right anyway, and then Nixon comes in, you know with his little Shenanigans and you know, he wants to take care of the hippies in the blacks and he figures cannabis is the way to do it. Right, right. Yeah. We've all suffered as a result. I see what you mean there Jeff. Okay. Well, I mean, you know some and as my last as my last growing question should a home grower Not Top Auto flowers again depends on the plant. I would I would say the first one. No, you know first couple of grows. No. Oh God after after that, you know, you're so you sort of become an expert at it you can figure it out. But but this the seed company have a lot of information you will see pictures of what the ultimate plant will look like and you can get a good feel for that pinching is sort of you know topping is kind of fun. But once again when you're dealing with an auto flower, sometimes it can sort us they grow so fast, it can see it can set things off the wrong way. So so I would say the first couple of pants no, no, okay. Okay and really Jeff I mean I know at the beginning of this recording you said that you can clone Auto flowers now. Yeah, I uh, I know I have quite a bit of a listeners that say that you can't so yeah, if you could could you delve a little bit deeper there? If you don't mind. Well, a lot of the a lot of the newer ones that take longer periods to grow you can take a clone from so somehow my say take 12 weeks. Right now yes three months. And if you take a closer Leon you could do it. Now. The problem is they flowers will quickly write so, you know, you got to time it right, they'll start flowering three and a half two and a half three and a half week depends on the variety all of these things depend on the variety, but but but once again as a as a new grower, certainly the people that are going to pick up do it yourself autoflowering cannabis a new way to grow is you know, the You don't need to come you. Can you give you a perfect example and again, I keep making the comparison because it's the right one tomato plants. You can take a cutting from a tomato plant. Nobody ever does. Why would you they grow so quickly you get a seed? Yeah, there's no need to there's no need to exactly. Yeah, right. It's they're they're you know, they're so plentiful than why you know, why you No clone them, right? Well, it's not question to be so plentiful. It's just if you're growing clandestinely and you've got a you've got something that you bread, you know, and it takes nine months for the planter grow and it's taking you for years, you know to breed it, you know and all of a sudden you got a mother plant this where you wanted to be, you know, you're going to clone that plant you're going to have another nine months ago that clone blah blah blah right in this instance a you don't have the time B. You know, you're not you're not it is we're not we're out in the open now, you know, I mean, it's not the seeds they're available. You can buy the same seed year in and year out, you know, you can't that's why people clone, you know, they don't they don't clone because it's a great gardening Technic load because they've got problems keeping the keeping the plant alive not Going around giving it away, you know all sorts of different reasons, but you don't have those reasons with auto-fire. Sure. Okay. All right, Jeff and really I my my last question for you. And this is a question that I like to ask everybody that comes on the cheap home grow podcast, you know, are there other any questions that I should be asking and are there any final statements that you would like to make sir? Well boy, what up, what a softball depiction author. And well, I think the first question would be is there an advantage to bind a book before it comes out sure know and of course, I always tell people, you know, go to Amazon. Yep. Take a look at DIY autoflowering cannabis or just Google my name and the advantage in buying it ahead of time. Is that my publisher? Says hey, he's right. These are going to be the next tomato. We need to get him out speaking to more areas of the country. And that way I'll be able to come to who your listeners hometowns and be able to talk not just about overflowing cannabis but teeming with microbes and you know how to grow great plants organically. So that's the question. You should ask me. There you go. Yeah. No. Yeah. I'm not. Not you know Jeff. I'm not a a hard-hitting podcaster in terms of questions. I'm just you know, I'm just a I'm just a guy that likes to you know, that likes to do this for a fun sure, you know when it's fine. I know the feeling that I've been writing a garden calling for 44 years Nobody Does it for the money? Yeah. I know. It's just fun. It's fun. It's fun certainly is it's fun when you run into people that have heard the podcasts and I heard you and you know, Shane show bad about you know, so it's just fun. So I always Don't know myself and you can tell you can hardly shut me up now. Ya know Hey, listen, I you know, I like a guess that that loves that loves to a to a talk. I really do because you know, I mean, I'll be the first to admit in terms of cannabis in terms of well in terms of growing, you know, as I've said multiple times on my very own podcast. I am not the world's best, you know grower of cannabis. However, I first for some reason I tend to attract people that know a lot more about me in terms of growing and they and they want to come on my show so I'm like hey, alright, great. Come on my show I'll ask you some questions will have conversation and you know people on the you know on the opposite side same to you know, they they seem to really like, you know what I am doing so, you know, why not? You know, why not keep on On it your gut you got it there. That's what we did and hopefully your listeners will like what they hear. Hello cheap homegrown Nation. Thanks for listening to my podcast with the Jeff. You can check them out online at Jeff low in Fells.com. That's je FF l o wwen Fel s.com. And also on Instagram add Gardener Jeff. That's G VAR d e n ZR J. EF F. You can also visit cheap home. Road.com / episode 67 to get show highlights and you can purchase his latest book online called do-it-yourself autoflowering cannabis and easy way to grow your own. I hope you've enjoyed this episode and please remember to press the Subscribe button and leave a review. I look forward to talking with you next Tuesday. I am reaching out to you to ask you really one question. And I want to know how am I doing as a podcaster? What topics do you want me to cover? Is there anything specific please reach out to me? Please? Get back to me. 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I have award-winning author and lecturer, Jeff Lowenfels. He's written many books in his past including his famous "teaming series" specifically "Teaming With Microbes," "Teaming With Nutrients," and "Teaming With Fungi." Today he comes on the show to talk about his new book called "DIY Autoflowering Cannabis: An Easy Way to Grow Your Own." During this podcast episode, Jeff brought up many important topics regarding autoflowers but the essential topic he brought up was his belief that auto-flowering cannabis will be the future for cannabis growers. Home and commercial growers alike. To say he feels autoflowers will be ubiquitous is a massive understatement. Also during this episode, Jeff debunked a lot of rumors that many photoperiod growers often assume about autoflowers including cloning. Now admittedly, Jeff is the most prominent guest to come on the CHG podcast. I was a bit nervous at first, but I calmed my nerves and Jeff and I have a great conversation. This podcast is filled with quality information about autoflowers and why you as a home grower should seriously consider growing autofowers. Please remember to press subscribe and enjoy the show! 