Cfl Light Leakage question

I Have a Plant outside on my balcony and im wondering if my lounge room is Supplying to much light for her to flower. Ive checked on the light meter and it seems to receive only 1 lux.

Im Still waiting To See if she (Ive preflowered her about a month ago to make sure she was a female) Goes into flower, but shes taking ages. So my question is, Does anybody have any scientific info on exactly how much light will stop a plant go into flower, Is the one lux from my living room to much?

My area is Australia, Im not even sure if this is the right time to flower(i thought it was)

Let me get this straight...
Plant is on balcony outside where it gets 12 hours of outside sun...
You are worried about cfl light leaking from your inside...
Possible to be slowing your bud phase...
You pre flowered her a month ago ?
Then u re-veged her ?
Then u put her back into flower ?
What ?
How long has she been in 12/12 ?

Sorry i wasnt Descriptive enough (abit tired) , let me re explain.

Firstly i had 2 plants indoors, A Stavia(Which has exploded and This afgani. I moved The Afghan Outside Due to the stavia Going nuts and needed all the room, At the time the days where 16 hours sun (She had been in flowering stage for 2 weeks and had already showed sex) But she Reverted due to the outside light schedule. Now Its getting pretty close to the 12-12 light phase outside (At least i think it is, and im abit worried that at night time my living room lights might be stopping her Going into flowering stage(Since ive heard even tiny amounts of light can stop flowering. She isnt showing any signs of pre-flowering atm.

I have a glass door that Joins to my balcony, So the light shines out onto the balcony, not super bright but enough that i can see outside.

For My Area this is the First light, last light and sunrise/set times. I Know its Still a little over 12 hours of light, but im also Wondering if my lights indoors will have any adverse effects?

Without sounding like a dick, it sounds like you bit off more than you could chew.

In your position, I would concentrate on the single plant still being grown indoors. Manage that plant as well as you can, and let the one outside do its thing. If it flowers, great. If it doesn't, at least you still have the sativa growing indoors. Growing initially is about making mistakes, learning from them, and correcting them. If you don't have space to grow two plants indoors, don't grow two plants indoors.

Good luck.

You dont sound like a dick, But U havnt Answered my question ethier. And All My Effort is on my monster plant thats indoors. (Not that its hard to grow weed, ive been doing it successfully for ages)The one Outdoors Is Doing its own thing.

I Also Have plenty of room Indoors to grow the plants, the issue was The amount of cfls i had, Ive already got 12 for the monster and a LED panel.


So Please, Somebody answer my dam question please . i dont want any opinions on what u think of growing ect, Its a light question , plain and simple.

Bump? Nobody knows lowest amount of light a plant can receive while still staying in Flowering mode?

The veg-> flower -> re-veg -> reflower is going to have you growing tree-like bushy plants. Whether you know it or not.. you used monster cropping for that one, so it'll be a bit more manageable in terms of width, but not so much in height and it should have tightly packed spacing in terms of nodes/shoots.

shaun2000 said:

Bump? Nobody knows lowest amount of light a plant can receive while still staying in Flowering mode?

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the lowest amount? Trick question, as it can vary per strain.. but would stick close to 12/12 for flowering if you can help it.

Im not sure u understand, I Didnt Reveg it (In a manner of speaking) It was Just In Flower stage for a week, mayby 2 before i put her outside. Shes only ever shown a few preflowers but never actually flowered.Ive Reveged plants befoew with great success after a harvest. The One Outside is At the 12-12 cycle, however My Original question is If the cfl lights from the lounge room will screw up the cycle. The lux shows 1 lux outside hitting the plant.

Minimal to no issues, would be less than moonlight on a cloud-free sky

awsome, i hope Been Trying to Find any scientific information on exact values but found none so far.

any idea on What lux rating a Full moon light night produces? Ive got overcast weather here atm, Also Im Not worried, My stavia is in its second month of flowering, so hopefully only one more month to go and then ill put that afghan back indoors.

I shot higher than I'd thought originally.. it ranges from .27-1.0 on the average

Thats Lux At full moonlight?

yes, full moon no clouds = .27 to 1.0

Thanks buddy.

worst case 1.0 = what you have...so unless your light meter is truly off by more than 1 lux, I stick by my original statement..no issue. Quite welcome

On A Afterthought, I Have wondered about Other light sources. i Have moved My outdoor plant indoors, due to her Suffering to much Water, I had to stick her under an led an notice that even though more then a meter away It shows as 0 lux, it still is quite visible, so now im wondering If The LED Would cause issues to a flowering plant even though the lux outputted is 0..

Since we know that LEDS have less Lux output but good par, just had me thinking

shaun2000 said:

On A Afterthought, I Have wondered about Other light sources. i Have moved My outdoor plant indoors, due to her Suffering to much Water, I had to stick her under an led an notice that even though more then a meter away It shows as 0 lux, it still is quite visible, so now im wondering If The LED Would cause issues to a flowering plant even though the lux outputted is 0..

Since we know that LEDS have less Lux output but good par, just had me thinking

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Yes, that's something that I would think would need factored so you dont get surprises.