My plant is getting most of it's light outdoors, but it's winter and days aren't long

The days are about 12/12 right now because it's winter. so when it gets dark out i've been moving the plant into my closet with only one CFL on it and just closing the door. then at about 12 am before i go to sleep, i'll put it back outside so it can catch some more light in the morning. Now i know just one CFL isn't enough, but i have the plant on a shelf pretty close to the light, and it's getting most of it's light from the sun, so do you think i can get away with that or should i get better lights? Since i live in the desert, when it's spring and summer the light will be about 18/6 on it's own outside so it's pretty much going to be an outdoor grow.

make sure you got enough light supplemtning when broguth indoors. whats the size of your cfl?

also, more of conern is varying temperature shifts and cold temps. whats the temps inside and out? high and low?

so, you want about 2500 lumens for veg growth per sq foot, 7500+ for flowering. you want a preferred tempo range of 70-78F for veg/flowering, and a 30-40% humidty, genrally speaking.

Snafu1236 said:

make sure you got enough light supplemtning when broguth indoors. whats the size of your cfl?

also, more of conern is varying temperature shifts and cold temps. whats the temps inside and out? high and low?

so, you want about 2500 lumens for veg growth per sq foot, 7500+ for flowering. you want a preferred tempo range of 70-78F for veg/flowering, and a 30-40% humidty, genrally speaking.

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The CFL is just normal size, screwed into the ceiling. And out side the temperature gets to about 65farenheit at the lowest, and 75 at the highest right now. Indoors it's pretty much 73 degrees all the time. In the spring temperatures will be up in the mid to high 80s. And in summer anywhere from 80 to 100, and sometimes higher.

CFL....normal size...lol theyre all diff dude. i can guarantee its not enough lumens though for sufficient growth. your gonna need some HPS, like 400W atleast,t o produce sizable dense buds and a good yield.

lol well i donno much about lights. it's just your average cfl you would get in a box of three from walmart. the closets small and the walls are flat white paint.

np. itll hold, just wont grow as fast and as big prob...tget it into more unslight as quick as you can, it will be perfect. when u want to flower, stick it in a dark place with no light leaking in for twelve hours....then put in light for twelve hours. 60 days later youll have fat buds.

aight awesome thanks. sounds good