Looking for suggestions on what different people would do if they had to leave their garden for 5-7 days for work/vacation.

Garden FAQs:
  1. The plants are in soil.
  2. The plants will be in 3 gallon containers at the time of the trip.
  3. Temps are right around 78 degrees at the canopy.
  4. Half of the plants will just happen to be turning two months old (if you count their birth date as the day the seeds were planted).
  5. The other half are about a week younger, though they behave as if they were two weeks younger because the seeds were planted in the wrong medium and were very sick at first and almost died.

I have seen the method of floating clones in styrofoam in a dish of water to root over vacation, but it may be slightly early to take clones from these plants???? Is that true?


So here are the questions:
1. Is there any reason why the plants would not be ready to take clones on day 60 from seed planting in order to have backups in case the potential mommies die?
2. Does anybody have a preference on a drip system with a pump vs. a wick system...or even some other method?
3. Would taking them out from under a 400w HID and putting them back under CFLs slow water uptake much? Would this be a good idea?
4. How am I going to survive without smoking for that long?

Any suggestions on not losing two months of work, electricity, seeds, and $$?
I know the first option is always to ask a trusted friend to water, but, in this case, there are no friends, trusted or otherwise.
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