First Hydroponic Attempt! Bubbleponics.

Earlier this season I planted a couple of seeds that I had remaining from an accidental pollination and created a contained grow inside a computer tower. Once they went to flower I found that both were males. Luckily I had started some seeds in a little tray for just such a misfortune. Recently, I have gotten into hydroponic gardening and have some left over materials and decided to go hydro on these new plants. Using a bunch of stuff I had lying around I figured that a bubbleponics system would be the most efficient and space saving. What I used was a large sized wide-mouthed mason jar (I covered it with dark tape to block out light) for the reservoir, the three-inch net pots I had extra of fit perfectly into the mouth of this jar, and I screwed it on with a standard lid ring. I have run as large of an airstone as I had inside with the tubing running through the net pot. Inside I used hydroton pellets for the medium and a Foxfarm nutrient schedule at about 5.7 pH. Also, I have been foliar feeding first thing in the "morning" as well as every hour for the first three or so hours of light. In the tower I have installed a single 150w HPS lamp in a way that all of the exhaust air cools the lamp as it leaves. And the entire inside of the tower is coated with some degree of reflective covering.
When I first put the new plants in, I accidentally burnt the heads of the plants by not turning the intake air fan on. I cut the burnt tops off, effectively fimming the plants. Fortunately, this caused both to split into 6+ main colas during recovery. I have done a drastic amount of LSTing in order to keep the height of the plants far enough from the light source. The larger plant is probably within 2 in. of vertical height from the top of the jar, and I am beginning to train them downward in order to utilize the maximum space within the tower.
I put them on a strict 13-11 light schedule a couple weeks ago and two nights ago they first showed signs of flowers. As of now, the larger of the two is definitely female, and the other is very likely female, but I haven't inspected it too much. I will begin posting pictures at some point to show the remaining progress. But from my experience they look fantastic, they were beginning to yellow in the new growth, but I supplemented the magnesium and it seems to have worked. They both look great and I am hoping for a (relatively) high yield from these two. They each have 8-10 large healthy colas. As well as additional shoots beginning to fill in on the stalks where I have thinned out fan leaves and LSTed the plants into horizontal growing patterns.
I am thinking up a way LST the plants downward in a fibonacci curve in order to not stress the stalks by bending too drastic, while covering the widest surface area that is contacted by the light (so as to take in as much of the 14,400 lumens that are being output within the 2 cu. ft. of space within the reflective interior).

Okay, so I got a normal light on these so I can tell what they look like color-wise, and took a bunch of pictures. I somehow managed to miss three of my largest colas, two of which are more like lollipops on sticks than long nuggets, approximately 1 1/2 - 2 in. in diameter. And the plants are relatively stuck in place at this point, I could pull them out, but it was a hassle and didn't. So the pictures don't really do justice to the biggest nuggets in the back because they are all on top of each other at this point. All of which have been burnt by the light after growing into the top of the case and thus being forced to grow forward into the light (some damage shown in pics 1 + 2). The tallest ones I hacked the topmost node or two off (irreparably damaged parts). And since, they have branched out the next two nodes down, which have filled in nicely for all that I did it to. But they are all very dense and continue filling in every time I open up the case. The pictures 3-8 show various tops, if anyone can see a 'smoking gun' that looks ready, let me know, if there are multiple circles, use a point system (i.e. in p. 8; it is 8.1, 8.2, 8.3; left to right respectively).
Picture 9 is of one cola that would have gotten too close to the light if I hadn't done anything, so I figured I could experiment with the stalk since it seemed relatively mature. I chopped it just above the bottom most visible node, so there are two tiny colas that have (I'm hoping) just enough of a leaf system to keep growing. I haven't seen any obvious examples of why the plant should stop growing if it's flowers ar trimmed, if anything I feel like the immense vascular system would only make it come back faster. At least that was my theory, I will see what happens in the next days. The picture is after I manicured it, and though I know it isn't ideal, I took a little piece off and tasted it, and I am beyond satisfied! And for reference, it is on the smaller side compared to other colas, especially width wise, which was why I chose it. And the last picture (p. 10) is of two clones I took approx. 21 days into flowering, and had put rooting hormone one and left in a little DWC in a mason jar. I had thought they would just die when it was doing nothing after lik 8 days, but they didn't look dead yet, and I figured I could just leave it. And to my pleasure, a couple days later I saw signs of rooting. I transplanted them into their own, larger net pots a day later, and fashioned a crappy DWC to hold them over in veg until I can crop out the big girls. I am aiming for hydra-cloning, with multiple top colas.
Here are the pictures:
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Edit:
And I just thought I may as well put this up, its the sam little nugget from 10, but after drying all night and morning, and with me rolling it with my fingers a couple times, so it is nice and tight:
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Peace.