Slowing the growth

I recently started my first grow, got everything going good. And the plants are starting to get to big to fast, I was planning on starting indoors, then transplanting in a secluded marsh I know of. The problem comes to be, my room-mate would not approve of the indoors growing, and right know its way to cold to plant outside! Anything I can do to slow, or stop the growth?

-Currently growing in a closet, with high humidity, temperatures of about 82 F, using no plant food(I stopped using it to hopefully slow the growth), for lights I have 2 45 watt Fluoresents, each giving off 2,900 lumens. I was also considering cutting back to one light?

Please help!

 

Your plants are too big too fast because of the low light conditions. DO NOT cut back on a light.

Bend the growing tips back and tie them to the branches. Twist ties work well. Turn the plant into a tangled mess. As long as you're gentle, you won't hurt it.

 

My largest concern is the smell, the weather claimed it to be warm by now, yet it is not, and also I recently got the idea of keeping light on it 24/7 could that slow the growing process?

 

FYI: a plant can only utilize 18 hours of light a day.

More light in a day means more growth.

Since you don't want to flower them yet, cut the lights to 12 1/2 hours a day for minimum growth without triggering flowering.

As for smell- an ozone or ion pump is best. Failing that, I generally fill the room with house plants and burn incense often.

 

some peeps do go 24 though it seems, i always thought it seemend like going against nature not giving them like a nighttime, and i always kinda go with nature growing. even down to the wind and the rain

 

I don't see how 24 hours light would hurt it, they may not be able to utilize more than 18 hours, but if you'r to lazy to turn it off and on... why not let her run?(Besides the electric bill)

 

Without going into bio-chemistry, a plant should have a dark period.

 

hey adoutsider ...bending works & has alot of benifits. My current grow is based on bending over the plant. Check out the link.
http://www.overgrow.com/edge/showthread.php?s=&threadid=250575&highlight=LST

If you would like i could post a few pics of my current grow or a link to my grow journal.

 

Mud Hunter: Looks pretty cool, ima give that a try

And to add to my list of thoughts, when exactly does the smell start to kick in? Could I grow within my closet untill the vegetation stage is over, and then transplant outside only for the flowering stage?(Assuming the flowering stage is when most of odor occurs)

 

The odor is almost entirely dependent on the plants geno-type.

Some smell quite a bit while vegatating.

 

I guess we'll find out what kind I have :-D

 

I think you should increase lumens if anything, but lower the humidity a bunch.
the plants love it between 40 and 60% humidity.
If you bring the humidity down to 25% OR 30% , IT WILL CAUE THE PLANT TO SWEAT MORE. AND grow less tall. it also helps to build drought tolerance.young Seedlings cannot tolerate the dryness as well, wait until they are two or three weeks old.