can cfl lights stop plants from flowering

Is is possible to use cfl light on my outdoor plants to extend extra daylight so they wont start budding? I like to veg my plants til September. Can someone tell me would this work? Thanks.

It's been working for me so far. I did it because 4 of my clones started flowering early. I've never done it before.

I used a cheap clamp on reflector from Home Depot and a 23watt 6500k CFL over each plant. I stuck a long skinny board in the dirt to clamp the lights onto and put the whole thing on a cheap timer from Walmart. There are some pictures in my grow thread.

Keep the lights close, and it'll work. Make sure to get some light to the under sides of them.

Thanks you two. Do you think the watt on CFL lights matter? Or how many watt does a light need to do the job?

refugee said:

Thanks you two. Do you think the watt on CFL lights matter? Or how many watt does a light need to do the job?

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There must be some point where a light isn't bright enough, it doesn't hit enough of a large plant to keep it veg, but I'm not sure what that is. I used those 23watt ones simply because it was the brightest CFL they had at Walmart.

Thanks BigB!