Some Help Please!

I Have a 150 watt envirolite is this good enough for every stage of growth? (not looking for max yield just some bud) And i have gone to 12/12 for about 2 weeks to see if they were females and they are, is it ok to go back to 20 + hours? to let them grow some more. will i lose this 2 weeks of flowering or will it be two weeks shorter of time when i go back to 12/12.

Its a grow box used to be some small cabinet that i hollowed out has no top so they can grow out of it and i can lift the light ( i have the reflector) Also i have been using a variaty of nutrients that my local hydro store recommended.

Sure you can use the envirolite for flowering , enviro buds are light and fluffy like flowers, you wont get the big dense resiny buds that you would get if you used HPS lighting. But you will still end up with some good smoke.
How many plants do you plan to flower under that 150w enviro?

I am flowering 3 plants, what do you think about going back to more light?

Many people sex their plants that way. The plant will be confused a bit, they will be okay tho. Just put them back on 18/6 until your ready to flower.. oh ya, your flowering time will still be the same, it wont knock 2 weeks off flowering time.

Alright thanks alot i was wanting to know cause from what i can gather from other pics they need to grow some more

Im not to sure how many watts/lumens you will need to flower 3 plants with enviro. I do know that one of the mods(Garden Knowm) used 8 42w cfl's on 3 plants and yield just over a halfpound! He has book coming out that will cover every detail about the grow.

420man88 said:

I Have a 150 watt envirolite is this good enough for every stage of growth? (not looking for max yield just some bud) And i have gone to 12/12 for about 2 weeks to see if they were females and they are, is it ok to go back to 20 + hours? to let them grow some more. will i lose this 2 weeks of flowering or will it be two weeks shorter of time when i go back to 12/12.

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Firstly, Envirolite don't make a 150w version, they make 125 and 200w versions, so I'm not sure which one you have.

Secondly, theoretically you can use an Envirolite for both stages of growth, but it's not advisable to do so as Envirolites come in two colour temperatures - 6400k blue and 2700k red which are designed specifically for vegetative and flowering growth respectively and the results you get with only using one of them will be dissapointing.

Thirdly, you can re-vegetate a plant thats been in flowering but it wouldn't be advisable to take clones from it as it's lost some of it's genetic integrity due to plant stress and confusion and your yield will be less potent and smaller - same applies to re-vegging and flowering an already vegged and flowered plant.

Finally, yes you lose those 2 weeks of flowering and the plant effectively goes back to where it was before you started it on 12/12. Next time, take a clone and flower that to determine sex and leave your main plants in vegetative state.