Plants are really looking good for a first grow. I had the same debate whether to add a second 400 watt system for veg. I ended up just going with a bunch of cfls like you have already. You'll need some more eventually, though. I just started with this setup and just have one 2 ft tall plant and 6 freshly cut clones in there. The clones don't need much light obviously but I found the bigger plant is not happy with less than four 26w cfls on it. So if you're vegging 3 plants, I would put 12 bulbs in there if they fit. Even if you don't have that many bulbs and the plants get stretched and stringy, you can take clones from them two weeks before you harvest your flowering plants. Then when your room with the hps and mh is empty you will have rooted clones ready. This will still save time over growing from seed but it would be better of course if you had enough cfls to put fully vegged plants into the flowering room. Just speaking from my experience so far it looks like you can get the same quality growth from the amount of cfls I mentioned as the MH I used before, it is just slower. But since you have 9 weeks for flower, they have plenty of time to veg in there.
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