Well, sounds ok, man. You are using soil, so you shouldn't have too much of a hard time setting up a timer. What do you mean "hard to find a timer this time of year??" It's Christmas time, they're everywhere. Ever seen "Home Alone?"

Well, anyway, you're gonna have to set up a pump and a timer to water your plants. Since you are in soil, you should be able to get away with watering them once every 2-3 days or so. Set up a 10-20 gallon res, with a small pump, some tubing with splitters, and a timer. You can get controlled drip heads to drop at whatever rate you want (i.e. 1 gph or so). Just open the pump all the way, hook up the drip system, and plug it into a timer. Set the timer to go on for 15 minutes or so once every few days, and you will be set. You have your lights on a timer right? Other than that, I only see problems with your LSTing....................ohh and lighting

What I mean by that is, if you aren't there to keep up with it, they can get away from you big time. You just started LSTing them, so they should start to shoot out more branches anytime now, and you will want to keep an eye on them. Being away for a couple weeks, you will have to hope they don't stretch too much or otherwise go crazy on you.

By lighting, I mean that you generally have to raise the lighting/ lower the plants every couple days during veg, especially when using flourescent lighting, so you might come home to some scorched tops. I would hate to say keep the lights further away, because they will stretch that way, but otherwise, they will grow into the light and burn, unless you keep it relatively cool in there, and even then, they will experience some heat stress.

Seems like quite a quandry you're in there, man. Hope you get it figured out. I told you what I'd do for the watering, but now I'm more worried about the lighting than the watering!

Hope some of this helped. It's not advice, by any means, just what I would do.

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TGF