First attempt at a 24-hour "Martian Method"

[salmayo]

First pic, main cola of HDF
Second pic, main stem of BK
Third pic, space with all four plants in it. The one on the left is Vanilla Moon, the one on the right is HDF.

I take it that this was on the fallowing schedule:

which tonight is changing to:
10 hours daylight
4 hours, 45 minutes Martian night
8 hours, 15 minutes SID
1 hour Martian night

so you can see the pattern. I'll keep the daylight time and the 1 hour daybreak the same throughout.

Before I try and catch up on reading, I wanted to make sure to comment on these pictures mother posted.

They tell two main things:
1. The stem elongation indicates that there is too much Far Red (or not enough Red) in the spectrum for the first (stretch) phase of flowering. (I mentioned that I don't use much Far Red during early flowering, to avoid adding too much stretch (internode elongation).

2. The dark cycles equivalent SID time is less than 12 hours and the plant is revegging/vegging.

~3. The single pinnation (fingerred) leaves indicate that you're closer to flowering (1 fingerred leaves) than vegging (5 or more fingerred leaves).

I use morphological indicators, like stretch, to help me sellect the spectrum I wish to use (for a given stage of plant developement, ~morphology). THEN, once I have the kind of grow habit I want (just below stretching), I let the spectrum dictate the proper schedule to use in order to get the equivalent of 12 hours of SID.

I would definitely increase the equivalent SID time some more.

If you leave the Spectrum alone, you will at least have a fast growth rate to produce morphology in the new growth to help you better gauge the plants responces.

Now if I can make enough time to read up to where you're all at, I might be able to tell you something more useful.