Here is 21 days using our first 24 hour "Martian Method" schedule. 10 hours HPS, 4 hours PAD, 1 hour blacklights, 9 hours SID.

The first pic is under the 400w HPS. The second pic is using an old white CFL light. The third pic is a group shot under the CFL.

The new "Martian Method" 24 hour schedule will be.....

10 hours 400w 2K HPS (our blue light source)

3.5 hours 126w 4/25w red inc party bulbs 2/13w red cfl's (PAD light source)

10.5 hours SID (standard indoor darkness)

We pulled the blacklights and added two 13w red cfl's in there place. We also took away some PAD light (on time), as noted above. The girls are doing ok but as you can see in the pic's the small spots from my uncle's impressive foliar feeding program are now bigger and the leaf wrinkle is still there. I'm glad I got him to stop spraying. It looks to me like his spray mixture was too strong. Ether he didn't mix it properly or the solution he used was bad, I'm not sure. I would think in about 5 or 6 weeks from now we will hardly be able to see it's effects. I hope.... LOL

The girls are starting to get small popcorn buds. I tried to take close up pic's of this for ya Sal so you don't have to squint. To my eyes the girls are actually looking about 3 or 4 days ahead of our "standard" 16 week schedule at this point. I'm counting our first two weeks of this "Martian Method" grow as veg time. So to me these girls have only been flowering 1 week and already are showing the start of popcorn buds. The girls are 30 inches tall now and pretty much have stopped growing in height at this point. They were 6 inches or so when we put them in the tubs. The growth has been great so far.

The next batch my uncle and I will use a 400w MH light for the first two weeks then switch to a HPS for the rest of the flowering duration. I still want to overshoot our 12 hour of equivalent SID Darkness duration and keep the girls in the veg/flower mode for the first two weeks like we did this time. The reason for this is our clones are only getting 2 weeks of T5 veg time (in 16oz cups). We can make up for the missing 2 weeks of veg time using this type of overshoot Martian schedule for 2 weeks. Then my uncle can bring down our PAD "on time" after the growth we want has been achieved. Somewhere between 25 and 30 inches. He is going to start a new batch of "Tub O Clones" next weekend.

More pic's soon of the "Tub O Clones" "SOG" "Martian Method" extravaganza.