I just stumbled upon this forum today, and I've been enjoying reading all of your posts thus far. I would really like some advice on my little baby girl. I've never had any experience with growing before, and she was sort of an accident...*gasp!* but please don't tell her that =)

When I moved into my house a few monthes ago, the people before me left fixtures and lights in the furnace room, I'm fairly certain they were growing, but I really don't know how successfully, the lights are not the expensive ones that people mention here, but merely four 48" cool white cfl fixtures and a bunch of really cheap infra-red lights that get hot like metal halide ones and put out a deep red colored light.

I had a handful of small seedlings at the time, and I immediately started putting the lights to use. I managed to kill all but one little lovely girl, using the really hot halide like type lights. She survived and I moved the light farther away for her protection, I know realize that this causes her to grow really tall and spindly. Anyhow...

I had her on 18-6 with halide lights since the time she was about 4 inches tall, its been about a month and shes now a good 25-30 inches. The thing is...she already started budding a few weeks ago, after reading around here, I sort of decided that the really red halide lights caused this.

to make a terribly long post a bit longer...the question is. Now that I've got her back on cfls will she resume vegetation or is she stuck in flowing mode for good?

perhaps I made that all a bit more complicated then it needs to be...but if someone would impart me a bit of their wisdom I'd greatly appreciate it! thanks much in advance.

I can't be 100% here but I'm almost positive that once flowering has begun, there is no reversing it. One suggestion I might make is to just drop the extra coin and invest in a standard HID lighting setup. The reason I say this, is because the red light you described sounds les like a horticultural grow light, and more like a light for reptiles, and other animals. Also by getting an HID setup, you will have more control over the grow.

As always, I don't claim to know it all so do get second and third opinions if you can.

Good Luck to Ya

Sorry to answer your question with a question, but do you have any pictures of the plant and the lights? I'd say switch it to 12/12 but I'm not sure how stretched it is.

^^^like he said got any pics??.. also if its about 2ft now it will/can.!! grow up to 3xs it veg hight, so thats say 6ft, if you put her bk into veg she will only get bigger do you have the hight for what could be such a big plant?

some plants veg regardless of the light cycle, I'd say it's tall enough and it's already started flowering so switch to 12/12. IMO

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thankyou all for the advice, the plant was very really stretched out. I don't have any pictures, but it doesn't really matter now...the light fixture broke and crushed her pretty well. It was a little sad...but on the bright side of things, now I get to start over and implement all of the information that I learned on this forum!

thanks for the help guys, I'll be back for sure =)

sorry to hear about the death of your girl but you've got a great attitude about it. I can't wait to start my next grow. I did everything wrong starting out on my current one, but they are 30" tall and all budded out now. I'm actually looking forward to starting 20 new young'uns more than I am my current harvest! Go figure.

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