can cfl lights stop plants from flowering

refugee

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Is is possible to use cfl light on my outdoor plants to extend extra daylight so they wont start budding? I like to veg my plants til September. Can someone tell me would this work? Thanks.
 
It's been working for me so far. I did it because 4 of my clones started flowering early. I've never done it before.

I used a cheap clamp on reflector from Home Depot and a 23watt 6500k CFL over each plant. I stuck a long skinny board in the dirt to clamp the lights onto and put the whole thing on a cheap timer from Walmart. There are some pictures in my grow thread.
 
Thanks you two. Do you think the watt on CFL lights matter? Or how many watt does a light need to do the job?

There must be some point where a light isn't bright enough, it doesn't hit enough of a large plant to keep it veg, but I'm not sure what that is. I used those 23watt ones simply because it was the brightest CFL they had at Walmart.
 
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