First attempt at a 24-hour "Martian Method"

In order to keep track of events, at the request of some online friends, and in order to share the love with the rest of the cannabis community, I'm starting my first grow log using the Martian Method, which I learned about from a very helpful Salmayo, here:
http://www..com/vbulletin/showthread...hlight=Martian
and it has also been discussed in another thread on this board, starting at post 1438:
http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-li...-light-58.html

BE IT KNOWN: I am experimenting with information that I've gleaned from Salmayo's posts, and I am NOT working with all the information that s/he has accumulated with his/her team. I am not associated with them in any way, so if I screw things up, blame me personally and not anyone or anything else, Salmayo and the MM included. :-) All credit for inventing the Martian Method goes to Salmayo and crew, I'm merely too curious for my own good.

The general idea of the Martian Method is to have Red and Far Red lights on 24 hours a day, with the blues and any other colors below about 520 nm on for only 12 hours a day, like a normal flowering grow. if you want some details as to how and why this works, read the above links please. :-)

My setup:
A 21" by 22" space that can hold up to four plants in which I currently have three:
1. Heavy Duty Fruity, flowering for 5 weeks
2. Bubba Kush, flowering for 4 weeks
3. Cheese, flowering for 3 weeks

These plants are cast-offs from the mother-creation process, which is why they're flowering at different times and they are also different varieties. Up to this point, I've used different types of lights at differing intensities, but the current setup using 24-hour light started today. Also, they've been abused in just about every way one can abuse a plant without killing it, so I'm posting this log for experimental purposes, NOT for instructions on how to perform a successful grow. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.


My lighting:

For 24 hours a day, I'm using:
4x 13w Red LED "bulbs", 652 nm, 5 mm LEDs, 168 LEDs per bulb
2x 25w Red incandescent "party bulbs" from GE (for Far Red light)

For the 12 hour "day" period, I'm using:
4x 13w Red/blue LED "bulbs", same as above only 83% red, 17% blue LEDs
2x 42w 2700k CFLs. (I may switch these with 6500k CFLs if I feel more blue light is necessary)

There are no pictures yet because I lent my camera out, but when I get it back, or when I can get a hold of another camera, I'll supply photos.

sounds exciting. Subscribed!

Hmmm... sounds interesting.
I'll pull up a chair for this! :D

Thanks y'all, much appreciated!

BTW, put treatingQyourself (without the capital Q) in the broken url above that says www..com

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Originally Posted by Mother

Thanks y'all, much appreciated!

BTW, put treatingQyourself (without the capital Q) in the broken url above that says www..com

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I'm in.
Yeah, we figured that out from your other posts.
Messing around a bit as well.
Still reading, though.
This will help a lot.
Mahalo Mom.

Weeze

sounds interesting to say the least. i'll be following along and reading up on the subject as well. good luck.

-shake

I'm in for sure

Hi Mom, I think the red incandescent bulbs are more in the red spectrum for sure. The Red cfl's are more red orange IMO. I would recommend red incandescent over red cfl's for the best red spectrum IMO. :)

Thanks Dog... I'm using the red incandescents for Far Red light instead of for Red light, so even if they are better for Red light, that's more coincidence than anything. :-) They're red instead of white so I can use them at "night" as well as during the day, though regular clear incandescents would be better for daytime-only Far Red.

Sounds like an interesting grow.