Using (the slower) Red PAD after "daylight" and before (the faster) SID, slows down the process during which the trigger that begins the plants measurement of the Night duration.

I mentioned your situation to Rauber and he commented that if the plants were still in veg when put on your current schedule that the grow rate slow down could cause the plants to appear to freeze in the middle of the changeover between vegging and flowering, which also looks like the changeover between flowering and veg as I mentioned before.

Please note that the slowdown in growth appears (for lack of a simpler descriptive term) to be exponential rather than linear. If it were exponential I'd personally say it appears to the third power rather than just squared.

Oddly enough this accursed growth slow down is just what people are always wishing for when they run into early flower stem elongation.

The amount of Red Incandescent it takes, to get the Time Factors down more and more as flowering continues, is large (I've gone up to 5 times the wattage of the LEDs I used), but it is offset somewhat by the high efficiency of LEDs and it does offer the ability to change these ratios at will, provided you can set the timing schedule to keep your equivalent SID time basically the same.

The good news is that Rauber's method not only improves on the overall efficiency, but also allows for the ability to turn the growth (elongation) rates up and down in the same manner (not to mention the as yet unmentionable other benefits... ...Come on Halloween!).

We really appreaciate all the trials you've endured Mother. Thanks for being so patient.

One benefit of this apparent growth freeze, is that the plants clock is still executing and sending out the normal accumulating population of mRNA messages building up in the plants tissues, and after the plant's regular (3 to 14 day) period of going into bloom, by turning the growth rate back up, you get the plant to go into flower with a minimum increase in (vertical) size.

Good luck with the move.

Take Care, Sal.