Years ago I ran an ir halogen heat lamp for the last 30 mins of day and first 30 mins of night in my grow, I had read somewhere about the ir sending the plant straight to sleep as a result of some sort of phytochrome mechanism, I could never keep any genetics alive longer than a single grow though so I never had any conclusive evidence of any benefit but the idea was they'd finish earlier or finish on time and yield more. I was young, we fucked about a lot back then, I should've probably been concentrating on keeping clones alive though haha.
anyways cool idea, always worth tinkering, I once read a few posts by a botanist on an old al b fuct thread, he ran a 10on/12off schedule with equivalent dli to that of a normal 12/12 schedule, everyone thought he was nuts til he provided his credentials, he essentially shaved 2 hours a day off a flowering cycle and achieved the same results as his previous 12/12 runs