Tarks: flowering is caused by a combination of things: plant diet, photo period and light frequency/color. If you want to force flowering you can change the plants diet form one high in nitrogen to one lower in nitrogen and higher in phosphorus and potassium. You need to shorten the photo period from 16 on and 8 off to 12/12 and go from the blue grow lights of 5,00K to 6,500K they vegged under to red 2,700K flowering lights. The combination of those three things will force flowering. For a non-commercial personal MMJ grower wattage isn't really that important. I hope that helps. Hank