Looks like āscientists ā have started reading grow journals. Lol
Better and cheaper tech coming our way !
The source article (in the main) is below, it is a bit techie but just smoke a larger doob before reading
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-018-0072-z
Blurple is the new Blackā¦ 
22 hours? ok im switching to a 22/2 on my next auto grow. lets see what happens
They get beatdown and look bad on even at 18 hours in my experience. You only want 1 trait from the Ruderalis (Autoflowering) and you want to suppress the rest in favor of the photo seeds traits.
You can see the diff in my grow journal from just 18 to 12 hours
They do their research I do mine
I think I would go with boardsbird on this one or do a single plant test grow and see how it works out and report back to usā¦the future is coming anyway. 
mine was growing prolifically on 24/0, but with everyones advice i decided to go 12/12. i dont regret it. but it did fine for over a month and well into flower at 24/0
what strain ?
me? its a critical purple auto from growers choice. i bought it from them before i found ilgm