Icemud420
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I would love to see someone else experiment with FR on during the day. Let me know how it compares to plants without added FR during the day.
Maybe a little bit of extra FR during the day helps? I don't want to try myself though!
I'm currently running a budmaster 730nm panel, and even though my main test is to use it as a flowering trigger to see if I can get a 14/10 flowering schedule to work, I did run it for 6 hours, during the middle of a 18/6 schedule for veg.
I'm not doing a side by side for comparison, but I did notice the ogiesel strain I have grown many times had much longer internode growth. I also noticed some odd leaf morphology where the leaves were not as fat (indica) as usual, and had a more hybrid look to them. Also the leaf "fingers" were more spread apart on all the different strains I am running.
Not all the plants showed stretching though, as the ogiesel being a heavy indica dom, usually is very short and compact, so it may be that the other strains I grow are more sativa dom, so stretch isn't as noticeable.
Since I didn't do a side by side though, its really based of my visual observations, and based of memory and photos of past grows, but its definitely showing slightly more stretch on the sativa doms, a lot of stretch on the indica dom, and the leaf morphology is interesting.
I just flipped to flowering a few days ago, so if anyone wants to see this grow, check out my journal, which I update at least 1x per week. I will be using the Far Red panel to be a flower initiator, and trying to run a 14/10 flowering schedule, running the Far read for 1 hour at the end of the daylight. 15 minutes while lights are still on, and 45 minutes when the lights are off.
With the far red during the day, I don't know if it actually helped speed up photosynthesis, but the plants did really seem to perk up at the time the far red light came on during daylight hours. The leaf posture that you normally would see at the beginning of the daylight, seemed to wait until the far red light came on to really show the leaf posture which was intereting as well.