I have never enjoyed the flavor from autoflowers, ruteralis was never known for its terpenes lol.
Feminized genetics that have less than 200 generations in the crossbreed are the best. It seems the terpene profile dies off after about the 200th batch of clones, thats about 2-4 years per mother in my experience.
Whoa! That is super interesting! See these are the hidden nuances that noobs like me won't discover for another 20 years otherwise! I simply don't have the level of experience to know that... thank you kind stranger!
in all fairness I cant grow it either, thats second hand knowledge I have from people who know how to grow, I was complaining about missing the Hempstar from the 2010 time frame. They told me unfortunately the Mother wasnt making good terpenes anymore, but it was about the 200th batch of clones they took from that specific mother, not specific to all strains.