Re-vegging outdoors with lighting question - please help

[Milovan]

L.A. in the month of May, the daylight hours will be a mere 14hrs in a few more days.
This is only 14 hours or less of daylight hours and not enough for veg?
There's plenty of stuff written here and at Google on
vegging with an HPS but I can's find anything on re-vegging with a HPS.
Can this be done or will the HPS help flower further since this is what they
are usually used for?Thank you!

 

[growone]

i'm to the north of LA a fair bit, but i did manage to reveg a plant oudoors
think i put it out in june, i'd think you should be good, maybe waiting a few more days would be good

 

[Milovan]

They are outdoors already and I was wondering if I could use
an HPS for re-vegging or would it trigger further flowering since
HPS is generally used for flowering. I will be using daylight cfl's
as well.

 

[Bakatare666]

I'm pretty close to you, relative to the equator, and I'm getting almost 14 here now, but somebody just a few days ago put up a real good chart, (Probably found with Google) that you could enter the city you live in, and it would give you chart for whole year with times/ hrs. down to the minutes of sun per day.
I thought I bookmarked it, but I just looked and can't find it.
I don't think there would be any complications with supplementing a few hours with MH.
Kinda like me still vegging, and using about 7-8 hrs/ day of sun, then back under the CFL's.

 

[Milovan]

I have the link to the world clock.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=137

I did start using daylight cfl's for the re-veg but for added supplemental
could I use a HPS along with the cfl's to help with the re-veg or will
the HPS keep the plants from re-vegging since they are used
mostly for flowering and they have the flowering color spectrum?
Should I use only the cfl's for the re-veg at 18/6 or 24/0?

 

[growone]

you can add light hours with HPS, i do see plenty of grows where HPS was used for vegging
not perfect for veg, but it does work

 

[Milovan]

you can add light hours with HPS, i do see plenty of grows where HPS was used for vegging
not perfect for veg, but it does work

Thank you for posting.
I'm aware that HPS can be used for vegging but how about
for re-vegging?
This is a different scenario altogether because HPS has color spectrum's
that are used for flowering thus I'm wondering if using a HPS would cause a
slower re-veg or eliminate the re-veg all together even when combined with
veg nuets, daylight CFL's at 18/6 or 24/0. Anyone know?

 

[growone]

i think that veg/reveg are essentially the same thing, the plant goes into veg when light hours are sufficient
but i haven't seen a log of a reveg using HPS

 

[Milovan]

Thank you for posting.
Yes I would think they are the same thing but I also can't seem to find a log of a re-veg using HPS.

I wonder if a HPS would enhance re-vegging or the exsisting preflowers or
would it stop the preflowers
or the rev-veg cause of the flower color spectrum the HPS
lets off. Mine are grown from female clones and not seed.
Anyone know?

 

[kushhound187]

So check it out. Yes a hps can be used to reveg. its a high intensity light, and will work for any lifestage. however, plants strech with red light. it wont however effect or cause another flowering. lighspectrum cant effect this. you can absolutly regreen with a hps. i just would honestly recomend a big fluero or a mh. regreening with a hps could cuase a extra stretch. Regreening responds on light cycle and your leaving the plant intact enough to regenerate.

mps and mh can both be used full term they are relitivly full spectrum as far as human mad light goes. but its best to use them in certain situations. using different bulbs allow you to mimic seasonal light frequencies. and thats what plants are adapted to

 

[Milovan]

So check it out. Yes a hps can be used to reveg. its a high intensity light, and will work for any lifestage. however, plants strech with red light. it wont however effect or cause another flowering. lighspectrum cant effect this. you can absolutly regreen with a hps. i just would honestly recomend a big fluero or a mh. regreening with a hps could cuase a extra stretch. Regreening responds on light cycle and your leaving the plant intact enough to regenerate.

mps and mh can both be used full term they are relitivly full spectrum as far as human mad light goes. but its best to use them in certain situations. using different bulbs allow you to mimic seasonal light frequencies. and thats what plants are adapted to

Excellent buddy! So it's probably better to just stick
with the CFL's. Thank you and to everyone else here who helped!

 

[kushhound187]

With stretchy plants i dont put my hps lights on until day 21 of flower. helps keep stretch down.

cfl is not my thing i like sprouting my seeds under a 1000 mh. far away of course, but you can start 3-400 seeds eazy like this.

btw my ballasts are switchable , runs hps and mh. best thing i ever bought. and they dim to. 500,750,1000w. unbeatable
they change your life. and they are quiet

 

[dirrtyd]

Bottom Line if you leave them outside they will reveg on there own. The light hours outside will conitnue to go up and the plant will sense that.Then you will get some funky looking leaves then things will turn to normal. keepem green