Sorry, forgot to answer the other question. Like I mentioned earlier, the light cycle where I am at just turned to 12/12 a few days ago, so it is getting a few more minutes than 12 of sun and in it's early flowering life, it got a few minutes less than 12. When it was vegging, I would put it inside under a bunch of CFL's to help it along. As far at the total darkness, it isn't totally dark. There is some landscape lighting around, although I turned off the ones right next to the plant, and light from inside the house falls somewhat on the plant but nothing more than a bright full moon. Actually we had a full mood a few nights ago and I walked out to check on the plant and looked around for awhile to figure out where all that light was coming from until I looked up. My plant was being followed by a Moon Shadow!
Nothing fancy though. As far as health, I am totally sold on Botanicare's line of goodies. I used their PureBlend pro soil veg and bloom, and a few weeks into flower I read about their CalMag+ and Sweet, so started using that too. I also use their Clearex. I followed their directions perfectly and it wasn't until the very end of flower (I haven't given them nutes for at elast a week now) the leaves were twisting just a bit, as can be seen still in some of the pictures. But other than that, that shit has worked great for me. A few times since I started the flush, I have used Sweet as well to help the plant use its stored nutes. Don't know if that is working but it makes sense in my head!