Sunlight and cfls

HELLO i wanted to ask if a plant would grow good with 8-10 hours of direct sunlight and maybe 6 or 7 hours of a couple of cfls? or am i affecting the plant with too many types of usable rays of light?? i have one baby growing real fast but its leaves are growing far up away from the cotyleons or watever leaves... its not stetching but ive never seen it grow this far from them ....could this mean its a boy cause i heard boys are taller but i know its way too young im just speculating

thankks
 
I was doing the same thing at one point. To my understanding moving them from daylight to CFL light will shock them. Not all to sure about the actual chemistry involved with it, but thats what I heard. Take it with a grain of salt.
 
yea i think it does get a little shocked o well its only one cloudy day.... ima take it from out the cfl .... i want it to be 100percent natural ..im growin my plant more for a hobby i ratther it be a girl but ... im not willing to have multiple plants at this point so .... one plant at a time is fun because i can focus on it better....

i grew plant in the winter... and at about 1 month old it was smal but bushy maybe like 8 sets of fan leaves and i decided to add more nutes and it shriveled up like a prune... so i guess u learn from mystakes..

also if its cloudy outside does the plant usaully grow..on this one unusual day?
 

sodalite

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if you are doing this to veg them becouse your nights are to cold yet then hell yea,put them outside under the sun while its nice and warm and throw them in at night under your cfls. keep them under 24 hours light if your vegging. you will not harm them. the only chance of harm is if they have been under your cfls for awile and you toss them out on a real hot sunny day for the first time. if thats the case introduce the sun at a slower rate a few hours a day or on the mixed cloud/sun days. they will be fine.
 

darkdestruction420

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it wont effect them, at all. plants do not get the same lighting intensity all day in nature and they seem to do just fine. lol.
 

treemansbuds

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I harden off my plants under the sun, then back under the florescent at night when the days are nice. On bad days they stay inside under the lights.
When I get a clone that's only been grown under florescent lighting, and I want to put it outside into the ground under the sun, I will cover the plant with a milk crate for a few days. The web design of the crate walls and bottom allows sun in, but with shade too. That way you can harden off your clones for a few days using this technique. After a few days i take the crates off at 3:00pm - 4:00pm to get them use to the full sun. Then I back off a couple more hours every day, 1:00pm, next day noon, next day 11:00am and so on.
Good Luck
TMB-
 
thanks guys... well i guess if my plant can hold strong against the sun.... then a couple of cfls are not hurting...

well actually i have a green room kinda in my house so there never outside but i always thought 24 hours would be too much ... and i heard that the plants grow better with a 6 hour dark period... im gonna experiment though and let yall find out... right now my plant has moved to the cfls... 12 hours sun 12 hours cfl:)
 
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