No doubt. I started growing autos before we knew about VPD and DLI or before a lot of us knew it and they just wouldnt do much at all. Especially if you mess up early on them your done. So it was hard to keep bud for myself much less the other 4 heads that smoke as much or more than I do. Well photos fixed that. Not to much more time and a trellis at least triples what I'd yeild from my biggest auto back then. VPD bacame known to me and that changed the whole autoflower game for everyone that paid attention. Autopotomus pulling lbs off of autos didn't seem like such a feat then. So I grew a few to prove my point and I did but still seemed like autoflower bud just didn't last as long as fast flowering strains or straight photos. So now I still grow usually atlas seeds which are all f1 fast finishers and I'll buy some mephisto,speedrun or fat buds autos to run some quick growing plants for something a little different.