Hey Lester, I like how you are constantly flowering plants outside while preparing indoor for a new batch!
How long do you veg them inside and how is your set up with the cfl's? Do you grow from seed or clones?
Greetings,
A beginner grower from Jamaica.
Hello Kingston,
I try to veg under the CFL's for about as long as my small space restrictions allow (I only have a small vegging area). If possible, I like to veg them until they are 1-2 feet tall and fimmed (with two main tops grown in) at least. I use reflectors that were originally intended for photography to direct the CFL light. In total, it is about 180 watts of CFL that I use for vegging.
Originally, my strains came from seed, and diligent growing and selecting of phenotypes that I wanted to continue growing. So my main strains are continually cloned, one batch after another. And currently I am starting new seeds to look for another 1-2 strains to begin cloning, if I can find some nice females. Good thing about clones is that you're certain of them being females, and you don't have to worry about wasting time & energy on males (unless you are breeding).
But yes, the essential idea is to keep the rotation going, ideally, I like to release a "full batch" and at the same time have vegging clones growing to the appropriate size - by the time they are ready to be released, the "current" flowering batch shall be ready to harvest, and the vegging clones shall be ready to then take clones off them, and the cycle continues - so on and so forth.
To make sure that my spring plants go into full flower mode, even with increasing daylight hours. I make sure to run the veggies under 24/0 lighting, when they get released, they experience almost 12 hours less light per day than before, which is so much less that it minimizes the chances of revegetation.
Aloha,