Cheapest way i can think of is them drip feeding glass bulb things... how long you gone for ??
I will be away for a month
Thank you guys for your kind help.
Summing up the state of affair:
due to the considerably big difference of time [around 6 weeks!
!] until flowering that separate these two plants from the third one - which, by the way, I have harvested already - I switched the light schedule from 18/6 to 12/12. After around a week they finally started showing clear signs of being in the beginning of flowering. It might have just been a coincidence that the change of light schedule helped or they could also really mistakenly be photoperiodics rather than autos. Or they could still be autos but for some reasons - be it a genetic failure or the like - they needed that "kick in the butt" to start flowering.
Therefore, not knowing whether they are autos or photoperiodics, I might as well keep the 12/12 light schedule taking into account the fact that if they are autos, they would provide you a better harvest with a 18/6 light schedule, allegedly.
@Hippie, you inspired me with the idea "rope as a wick" and I am considering the following "crazy?!" idea:
I could fill up the bathtub with water (adjusted with nutrients and right ph) and use ropes as a wick.
I am flying away on the 15th of June and coming back on the 19th of July. Quite a while, isn't it?
Anyway, let's consider the following:
The plant that I harvested on the 2nd of June already
( I could have let it stay a bit longer... I am still not very experienced with trichomes ) was at the same stage - showing signs of flowering - on the 30th of April
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which means that it took almost the same amount of time to reach the point of harvest that these two plants would have to keep flowering until I come back.
Looking at it in this way, it looks as if I could manage it, could't I?
But, what about the flushing? The plants would get until the last moment water with nutrients.
Flushing them completely on just one day in the sense of just letting flow liters and liters of water through the soil until I have a good ppm measure of run-off water does not necessarily mean that the plants itself - their roots and all up to the buds - have also absorbed the flushed water. Therefore, it would mean having to harvest two unflushed plants.
I wanted to post a picture of the two but they are sleeping now
and according to the phtoperiodics schedule, they need 100% darkness during the dark time. I will post a picture of them later.
What are your thoughts on this state of affairs?