swag grow and questions

Hello all I am brand new to this site so please take it alittle easy on me as I am looking for some advice. I started a little project acouple of months ago with some swag seeds I got from a friend of mine. I am growingin water “deep water culture, and ebb and flow” this is my 3rd go around as Iwas veging for 2 ½ weeks and my plants were getting too tall for my space andthe plants were growing up into the light. I took cuttings from the plants andstarted over. As far as cloning goes I must admit I am pretty good at that. IfI take 11 cuttings I will have 9 out of the 11 that make it so I think I havethat part down. I stared this time bytaking my clones from the previous grow and put them on 12/12. The plants grewfor about 3 weeks and have since slowed down a lot. I planted 5 plants and had3 that turned out to be male, cut those down. So now I am left with 2 plantsthat are still on the 12/12 schedule and are about 3 ½ feet tall and they arefemales. “Showing the little pistils coming off the nods” I am using a 150watthps bulb the question that I have is.

1. Will this 150 watt HPS bulb flower these 2plants?

2. I have been in flowering now for 1 month todaywhite hair is visible from both plants, but there is no sign of bud forming amI doing something wrong or how much longer before I start to see the formationof bud?

3. I trimmed quite a few fan leaves the other dayso light could get to the bottom flowers was that a mistake and if so will itprolong the flowering process?

Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks…..O and by theway this is all just a hypothetical situation. Lol lol lol

It will flower them but not with great results, a 400w would be a lot better. The lack of bud forming could be due to the 150w not giving them what they need, or it could be a light leak. Also could be due to you trimming off fan leaves, could have shocked them a bit. If theres a fan leaf right in the way of a budsite trim a couple fingers off instead of the whole thing, the plant gets most of its energy from the fan leaves so trimming them off is a bad idea, you'll know for next time. Flowering might be prolonged, but you never know.

you cant grow swag man. swag is a result of laziness and stupidity, and if u ever grow some swag, some LEO is going to love to bust you for producing such shameful weed. as long as you keep it female you will have some sensi buds! 150W hps isnt enough for floweirng. you are trying to use 100W/ plant... i suggest a 400w HPS for 4 plants or 2 really big ones

Thanks for the advise guys it will help