All three of my CFL's are no more than 2'' away from the plant. The stem is almost 1/4" thick already, it's gonna be a small treelooks like you might need to get your light a little closer. your starting to strechrember you have to keep cfls about 1''-2'' away fromyour plant to keep streching to a minamumi have my cfl about 2'' above my plants theyhave no streching from the top only the lower branches are streching out a little. it also helps with stem strengthmy stem s are fat and strong without a fan. i am using a 150w7900 lume cfl bulb.
Awesome man, and thanks. Sounds like mad CFL's haha.good luck bro. i just started my cfl grow as well. all though i already have 3 plants in flowering. in my veg box i have 90 watts with 7000 lumens. and my flowering box has 410 watts and 14000 lumens. my grow box total is about 4' wide by 2 feet deep and the flower box is 7' tall the veg box is 3' tall.