Light patterns

heya guys,

please dont beat me up for such a newbie question..... I was wondering about lighting patterns.

for instance. if i was to have 4 x 48w CFLs running on a 10 hour cycle and at the ten hour mark add another 2 48w CFLs for a few hours and then turn those off after say 5 hours. does this do anything for the plants. i mean like letting the plants have a feel for a difference in light quantity, temperature etc etc.

sorry for the pointless question, but this indoor growing thing, i have caught the bug for it...

i have 3 indooor and 10 outdoor for comparison..... the outdoors i treat with average attention to see how things progress and the indoor ones are my little honeys..

thanks in advance.

changing the lights could do something. But i would recommend from my expereince that the more light running all at once is better. I might be wrong.