I know what youre sayin dont go in the first thing when you wake up or you will really feel the pain. overall its a great light, the ladies couldnt be happier.
Use coco and the FF line of nutes, you can use the nutes and flush out the chems every other week, its an intimate process and organic and stays ph'd as long as u follow the feed chart.
Yea invest in that hps because you probably spent just as much on alllllll those cfl instead of getting hps only to get a lower yield. great grow for cfl though hope she flowers well. its gonna cause a fire, i hope not though u got kittys...
Yea if its 50% dead or more cut it off at an angle, then flower those bitches they gota be big and out of control after 1year of veg? clone her for next time and let her mature already, for cannabis sake man.