r/Autoflowers rules, stats, and what to post

This community is for the cultivation of autoflowering cannabis. The people here are growers. They post about their plants, their setups, and their harvests, and they help each other troubleshoot problems from seed to harvest. The rules make it clear this is a working grower community, not a hangout space. There is a line in the low-effort rule that says plenty of cannabis and growing subs are already overrun with memes, and the mods here want to keep this one focused. So you get real questions about real grows, pictures of plants under proper lighting, and detailed discussions about nutrients, light, medium, training, and watering. If you are a founder, the honest framing is this: you are a guest in a hobby community, and the only way in is to care about growing as much as they do.

The rule that decides everything for a marketer is “No self promotion or flooding”, because it bans self promotion outright, and the rule text warns that any post or comment containing an @ symbol gets caught by Automod. “No selling, trading or asking for hookups” closes the commercial door completely. “No referral codes / links” makes personal referral codes for seedbanks, Amazon, and similar things spam. “Youtube posts must note why they are on topic” is the one conditional path for links, and it only works if your title explains the autoflower connection before the mods read it. “Autoflowering related content only” keeps the topic tight, so off-topic posts do not survive. “Memes & low-effort posts will be removed.” sets a quality bar, and it explicitly rules out AI-generated art. “No help requests with “blurple” light.” matters if your post includes pictures, because purple-red lighting hides detail and repeat offenders can be banned. “Please show respect to everyone and follow reddiquette” is the baseline for how you talk to people.

The safest useful post here is a genuine contribution to a grow conversation. Share your own experience growing autoflowers, answer someone's troubleshooting question with what worked for you, or post pictures of your own plants in natural light with clear focus. If you have made something useful for growers, do not pitch it. Talk about the growing problem it solves, in your own words, as a grower, and let people ask you questions in the comments. If you link a Youtube video, write a title that says exactly why it matters to autoflower growers, because that is the rule. Keep every post on topic, keep it substantive, and skip anything that looks like marketing, because this community has closed every commercial door on purpose.

Do not promote anything. Do not sell, trade, or ask for hookups. Do not drop referral codes or links for seedbanks or Amazon, because the rules call that spam. Do not use the @ symbol anywhere in a post or comment, because Automod catches it. Do not post memes, low-effort content, pictures of your cat or dog in front of your tent, or AI-generated art. Do not post anything that is not about autoflowering cannabis. Do not post a Youtube video without saying in the title why it is relevant to autoflowers, because the mods will delete it rather than watch it to find out. Do not post help requests with blurple light, because intense purple-red light hides important details, and reposting blurple pictures can get you banned. Do not ask about yield, because those posts are discouraged and often removed. And always show respect and follow reddiquette.

The blurple light rule is my favorite thing in this whole set of rules. It tells you this is a room full of people who actually look at pictures closely and want to give real help, not just scroll past. If you grow anything yourself, you already speak the language here, so skip the pitch and just be a grower.