Update:
From the current point that I am at with my grow I felt that I should sort of explain my input on the experiment I am conducting with my grow. Basically I wanted to just grow some plants but I also wanted to see if even bag seed with low cost lighting in a simple setup could produce quality smoke.
I feel that CFLs and fluorescent lighting is the best way to go with a personal indoor grow especially one that needs to be stealth. It's easy to maintain and keep cool with a simple inlet & exhaust setup and I'd say two 23watt 6500K is enough for vegging one plant and then four 23watt 3000K for flowering one plant. If you keep that ratio it's effective enough for an inside grow and still supports two very big plants and can successfully sprout and flower an acceptable yield granted the space limitations and need for stealth.
Although I haven't finished the flowering stage I can see that the lighting can support the multiple amounts of tops and flower them all at a close rate. With this type of setup I definately recommend tying the inner shoots and spreading them out to increase inner growth and promote an open canopy. It forces the inner growth to extend outwards and then travel back up towards the top forming a "x-mas tree". This makes it so all of your new shoots are of the same height as the main cola so now all of the tops will produce a large flowering bud. I also tied down the entire plant during vegging to start up all of the inner growth that you see on my plant now.
Pictures:
Now here are just a few of the flowering tops on Big Lady. There is around 20 tops on Big Lady alone and all have developed bud sites. There is a great amount of tops that are equal in size to the main cola.
One thing I found interesting is that when I transplanted these plants into their current final pots I made the medium level raised above which covered two mini branches that were barely existent and somehow they managed to grow through the medium and out into the atmosphere to produce a top. I actually looked really closely to see if the top was flowering also which would of been awesome but I don't think so. I'm surprised it made it that far. Here it is.
Big Lady -
Day 55 (Flowering Day 26)
Shorty -
Day 55 (Flowering Day 26)
