First grow: Kali Mist single bag seed (55 W 2700K CFL - small cabinet)

Nice start. They are looking very nice and healthy. As far as it goes, your cfl is fine. I would recommend adding in some as your plants grow. That gives you time to get what you need over a few weeks.

Nice start! I'm on my first grow as well, one of my hopefuls is a Critical Kali Mist. I hope you have some room to let her grow once in flower.

hmmmm Kali Mist in a PC growbox? Better top her and LST the shoots.
You will definately need more light than that
I wouldnt exactly call 1 cfl light a "lighting system"

Thats a hell of a strain you got there, but you'll have to change your approach if you want to realize her true potential

Exactly what I was thiking. He said she's in a small cabinet but I'm willing to bet it's nowhere near big enough for that plant.

Thanks for the input! Maybe more like a "house light" than a "lighting system". I know I am WAY under-powered in terms of lighting but I originally just wanted to germinate the seed just for fun. Now that it is looking as good as it is, I may in the future need to get a couple more CFLs. It is currently inside of a cabinet that is 24 inches in height. If is continues to stay healthy and get larger, I could move it to a bedroom closet to obtain greater vertical length. I still don't know if it is a male, female, or a hermie but whatever it is it's doing better than I thought it would given my current setup. Regarding my "lighting system" what would be a good budget CLF lighting addition to add (assuming it turns up female)? I was thinking maybe a couple more 6400 K CFLs.

Also, since this seed was found inside of a nice Kali Mist bud, this mean that it's more prone to develop hermie characteristics right? It also may not be full Kali Mist correct? It could be a cross?

its most likely it came from a hermie kali mist, but it could also be from a male of a totally different strain.
If the former then yes it will be more prone to hermie
I think the easiest cheapest way you could go with CFL's is to buy the Y connections that allow you to screw two bulbs onto one socket. You can double those up to screw 4 bulbs into one socket, but you have to be carefull with the wattage. You should be buying the 23watt variety, which means 4 bulbs is just under 100watts. Make sure your lamp can handle 100watts. I would rig up 2 of those 4 bulb units and have placed to the sides of the plant. Side lighting helps reduce stretch.

If you want to flower her in the 24 inch space you should top her when she reaches about 8 inches in height, leave 3 nodes. let the top 4 grow out and remove the bottom node(I found with Kali mist the first node didnt really grow very well). I would then wait about a week just enough time to let her recover from the topping stress and then put her into 12/12.

SHe's still going to stretch though, so now youll have to try and wind her around in a circle level with the rim of the pot, use some metal wires or something to ancher her down. Now her side branches will form into the main shoots and will likely not reach the top of your space. After a few weeks in 12/12 the stretch will end and youll be smooth sailing.

Good luck

Yeah but hey even if it is a hermie if it actually buds and he keeps it growing decent up until harvest he would atleast have some smoke and get some experience from it and want to try even harder the next go round.
But yeah man if I where you I would deff move them to the closet and maybe build it its own little tent or some sort of box,just something medium in size just so it contains everything good and put some good reflective material on the interior to make it more intense. I use 42W compacts for my clones and small vegging plants,I also keep them hanging around the sides of my bigger veg just as extra side lighting.But there pretty damn intense though for a compact,I payed about 10bucks a piece for them and bought a whole box lol.There also red spectrum but they put in work enough where I dont ever have problems with auto'ing or stretching.
Also if your really serious about this and you maybe plan to start more plants in the future I would highly recommend going to lowes/home depot/walmart... anywhere that sales yard lights,but you can get like 75-150 metal halides and high pressure sodium lights with ballast/bulb,everything you need for around $50-75.....off the top of my head.I flowered under a 150mh and 4-42w compacts for a little while in a medium cab setup and it did a damn good job,yielded great for there size and had hella resin content. But thats just my 2cents man if you bought one you wouldnt regret it,also they dont get to crazy hot and DONT run your power bill through the roof.So consider it man.Is there a reason your trying to be "super stealthy" or just being safe? But goodluck man keep us posted!

It's going to start to smell nice at your place soon enough... Everytime I open to the door to the basement.... whoaaa

I keep hearing about this odor neutralizer called Ona Gel, might be getting some of that.

Hey btw you have a unique seedling there, notice it has 3 leaves per node? that's pretty cool, its not extremely uncommon, but it is still unusual. If you top her you youll get 3 colas instead of 2

Kinda like getting a double yoked egg