I changed my mind about waiting a week to flip my girls into flowering, so I light-proofed the closet yesterday afternoon and turned out the lights at 7pm. I'll turn them back on at 7am this morning. And I have a timer, which they'll be on starting tonight.

BTW, I'm running my lights and fan through a Kill-A-Watt meter. During the past two days I left the plants in the closet with the lights on while it was rainy and cold outside, the project consumed about 6.0 kwh over a 48-hour stretch, or about 0.125 kwh per hour of lighting. At 14 hours a day under lights for the first 19 days of the grow, and $0.135 per kwh, that's about (19x14+48)x0.125 = 39.25 kwh, and 39.25x$0.135 = $5.30 so far in electricity.

Of course, the sun is providing the real growing light. The CFLs are just keeping the plants in veg mode during the night. In any case, it will be interesting to keep track of the cost of the electricity and other consumables to find the cost per gram of my yield. Should be way cheaper than retail. :smokin: