To be fair, the advice about using normal seeds was appropriate.
After being dissatisfied with the results from autoflowers, (ratio of success to failure about 1:1 and never a large enough crop) I started using feminised seeds all the time. In Thailand you didn't really need to worry about day/night hours as the plants always flowered when they were big enough, and I could take 20 cuttings from just 1 planted seed, so way cheaper than autos and huge crops (success to failure around 10:1.
I also found it pointless to grow anything except feminised, as the seeds with males seemed to predominate and it just wasn't worth the waste of my time an resources to grow essentially useless plants.
Off topic,
Fis High offered me Tropicana Cherry this morning for 5bht/gm, so I'm trying 50g for 299 inc (COD). Thought the American Pie looked nice at 7bht/gm but I tend to stick with 70percent Indica (or more).