Does lighting affect auto-flowering grows?

[dunkindabs]

Im looking into buying some new leds and this came across my mind.

Has anyone seen any research or tested this out to see which perform better using an auto-flower method.

Any advice will be useful, thanks!

 

[Justones]

I'm new & learning still. But to my understanding some LED lights have a setting for veg & flower. It's just adding other spectrums of light that are beneficial in the two stages of growing from what I read. I don't think the 12/12 hours of light are key on autoflowers.

 

[Nismo12]

For autos light schedule doesn't matter one bit. They start to flower when the roots hit the bottom of the pot. We use #5s and they veg for 4 weeks then pistils start showing up.

For lighting we use metal Halide for their veg and then they get put under a HPS. We have both LED and HID lights and they seem to perform roughly the same. If you go LED then just make sure it has a bloom switch or it is full spectrum. Blue spectrum for veg and more red for flower. Hope this helps.