I have successfully grown outdoors yielding a little more than half pound out of 8 plants. But i have never grown indoors with CFL lighting. My outdoor plants were very bushy and had thick stems. My indoor plants seem to be growing taller than I would like. I started with a test run of 4 plants to see how they would do.

The attached images are current, and the plants have been in the box for about a week and a half.

I have two 150w CFL's and plenty of air circulation.

My concern is that the plants are growing to tall to fast and I am looking for suggestions on making them bushy and thickening the stems up.

Yield is not an issue as this is a test grow.

Any suggestions are appreciated, constructive comments are also helpful.



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How close are you keeping the lights to the plants?
I suggest keeping them no more than 2 inches off the tops of the plants. Also, for the first few weeks with my plants, I gave them 24 hours of lighting. It kept them all very short and busy with thick healthy stems.

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i have had them with 24/7 light the entire time, and the light is about 3 inches from the plants. thats why im confused.

Wow, strange...
So are you using tube lights?

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yeah they look extremely stretched.
i am setting up cfls in my grow box cuse i just have a halogen bulb in there and it seems to be doing the job.
but i have heard good things about the cfl's so idk i guess ill try it too and see what happens.

they are the energy star cfl's. the spiral ones.

is there any way to thicken the stems up at this point?

the stems on mine were thin for quite some time until i transplanted them to a larger pot and burred them about 1 inch under the first round leaves.
takes time i guess

I would bury the plant in the soil more up to right under the leaves and bring the lights as close to the babes as you can.
I watered roughly 2-3 times a day with a mist bottle at this stage too, to keep the soil fairly saturated. It worked for keepin my babes bushy.

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quite some time as in about 2 weeks

Burying the plants doesnt kill them? If i were to bury them at this stage what would the affects be?

Also when do you guys transplant into bigger containers?