damn. well scrap that idea. I had some far fetched belief that a non flowering mother could be kept alive with minimal lumens. I somehow thought that copious ammounts of light were only needed for flowering... Also, I had heard that many people will veg seedlings under just one or two cool white cfls. I guess that will only suffice when the plants are small. Just trying to think how someone could get the most from a minimal setup using cfls. I'm starting to think the answer is to simply grow one plant at a time, in a very small space just like in the rubbermaid grow box thread. My research says that Sea of Green and Screen of Green techniques were originally developed to get the most yield from crappy fluorescent setups, so I'm just trying to think of how someone could use clfs for that, and minimize wait time between mini "crops". Why grow one plant at a time when you can have a bunch of clones the same age of the mother which you can start flowering like one week after transplanting right? Problem is, it seems from what you've said, it would require so many cfls that it would defeat the purpose- using minimal wattage. Guess one or two plants at a time is the best way after all...