Roque Nuevo
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OK. I've looked for an answer to my question and really haven't found one here yet. Maybe it's because the question itself is stupid and nobody here is stupid. Probably that's it. This is my first try at this stuff and my brain is way down the slippery slope.
I have an outdoor greenhouse setup; polycarbonate roof over most of it, opaque sides, plenty of good ventilation and fresh sunlight all the time. I have a plant I really admire, some kind of Hawaiian hybrid, Maui Wowie. Anyhow, I love the way it's turning out. It's about three months old by now and started to flower maybe a few weeks ago. The buds are small, but they're there. Still, the plant seems to be growing quite fast along with the buds. Right now it's about six ft, great branches, quite symmetrical. Since it's the only one of it's kind I have in my garden right now, I want to revert it to veg and then take clones off it. From the size of it right now, if it wasn't flowering, I could get probably 15-20 clones easy.
So I took it indoors and got some CFLs and put the plant on 24 hrs of light. I understand that this will force the plant to revert to veg within a month or so, at which point I can start to take clones. I'm planning on eventually producing more mother plants but for now, this is what I have. I figure I'll do the cloning and vegging of the clones in the same room as the mother plant and maybe make some partitions for the mother plants, clones, etc later.
Anyhow, my question is about how to figure the lighting to most efficiently force this plant back into veg. For the moment, thinking "more is better" like I usually do, I bought a 105w/6500 CFL to hang right above the top of the plant plus four 26w/6500 CFLs which I want to put around the plant below the level of the top on Y-sockets. I'll be making some kind of reflector for the lights later but I just wanted to get the plant started on its trip back to veg ASAP so I just plugged in the 105w/6500 CFL for the night. But now I noticed that this is a lot of light, already with just the 105w bulb. It's amazingly cool though. The leaves come within an inch of it and there's almost no heat at all.
So my question is if you think this 105w bulb is enough to re veg the plant or if more really is better and I should go ahead and put in the other lights because the plant will reveg faster and grow stronger and faster, etc. Or is this impossible? Is the plant on its own genetic program and will reveg in so much time, given the correct light conditions, no matter what the light intensity is? In that case, would it be better to just use much less watts, wait a month, take the clones, and then use the lights for rooting/growing the clones?
I have an outdoor greenhouse setup; polycarbonate roof over most of it, opaque sides, plenty of good ventilation and fresh sunlight all the time. I have a plant I really admire, some kind of Hawaiian hybrid, Maui Wowie. Anyhow, I love the way it's turning out. It's about three months old by now and started to flower maybe a few weeks ago. The buds are small, but they're there. Still, the plant seems to be growing quite fast along with the buds. Right now it's about six ft, great branches, quite symmetrical. Since it's the only one of it's kind I have in my garden right now, I want to revert it to veg and then take clones off it. From the size of it right now, if it wasn't flowering, I could get probably 15-20 clones easy.
So I took it indoors and got some CFLs and put the plant on 24 hrs of light. I understand that this will force the plant to revert to veg within a month or so, at which point I can start to take clones. I'm planning on eventually producing more mother plants but for now, this is what I have. I figure I'll do the cloning and vegging of the clones in the same room as the mother plant and maybe make some partitions for the mother plants, clones, etc later.
Anyhow, my question is about how to figure the lighting to most efficiently force this plant back into veg. For the moment, thinking "more is better" like I usually do, I bought a 105w/6500 CFL to hang right above the top of the plant plus four 26w/6500 CFLs which I want to put around the plant below the level of the top on Y-sockets. I'll be making some kind of reflector for the lights later but I just wanted to get the plant started on its trip back to veg ASAP so I just plugged in the 105w/6500 CFL for the night. But now I noticed that this is a lot of light, already with just the 105w bulb. It's amazingly cool though. The leaves come within an inch of it and there's almost no heat at all.
So my question is if you think this 105w bulb is enough to re veg the plant or if more really is better and I should go ahead and put in the other lights because the plant will reveg faster and grow stronger and faster, etc. Or is this impossible? Is the plant on its own genetic program and will reveg in so much time, given the correct light conditions, no matter what the light intensity is? In that case, would it be better to just use much less watts, wait a month, take the clones, and then use the lights for rooting/growing the clones?
