Hi mother. I hope you and everyone here had a nice Thanksgiving. Ok here goes week 5 pics. These plants have now been flowering for 5 weeks but have only been under (martin night lights) for 4 weeks. In the first pic my uncle and I turned out the HPS 5 min's early and used the video camera's white light for the pic. The second pic is the same flower but when the red martin lights were on. We are about half way through flowering at this point.

So far this is what I've noticed using 4 weeks of RED martin night lights.

1. Martin nights can suppress stem elongation in the first two weeks of flowering (and for us it did).

2. Martin nights also increased the Trichome production (on our plants). There is alot more then
what would have been (up to this point) had we just been using the 2k 400w hps alone and natural darkness. It looks like a LED or CMH (ceramic metal halide) type of trichome production.

3. Yield increase so far.... For us the use of the red martin nights did slow stem elongation when we first started to use them in the second week. It looks like (martin nights) put the plants into flowering faster witch is contributing to a little more yield (not much, but a little). If we would have started the martin nights at the beginning of the flowering cycle (week one) then we could of increased the yield just a little more. Basically the WAY we used the martin nights has only contributed to just a little yield increase IMO.

I think increasing "our" yield using martin nights will come from a whole different source altogether. But (let it be known) because of the fact that red martin nights DID stop our plants half-veg half-flower cycle during the first two weeks. This in itself will contribute to more yield when combined with the proper yield increasing techniques under the martin method IMO.

4. Red martin nights I think are increasing the flowering metabolism rate in (our) plants. I just don't think my uncle and I are utilizing it properly, again JMO.

5. And just think, This is only half the reason for us wanting to use Martin Nights. LOL