You have to be careful, though, with folks that sound like they know it all, the Marijuanistas, started growing yesterday giving out advice today.lol I did a lot of reading, deciding what and how, most of the information I used came from right here at riu. Not quite two years ago, and I think at that time we had about 500 members, it was just as easy to get good information then as you can now, several of the knowledgable folks like widow maker, pot roast, Al B Fuct, etc. posted extensive information Like 101 already asked questions, a grow journal with pictures, Hydro Growing, and every once in a while GK would drop bye to tell us about a new project like the book he wrote, Marijuana Buds For Less.
What I did was follow the mod's. I would click on thier name, go to thier profile and find the threads they started having to do with growing and read them from start to finish. It takes less time to read a 'good thread' then it does to post a question and what for an answer. If I found some thing that helped me, I tried to say thanx for the info, seemed like a short time and I had several hundred posts, not many of them were instructions on growing, most of them were about the 'physical plant' the 'set-up'. Well enough history, don't know where that came from, just felt right.
Our current guru of soil grows is DirtBagBrian ( B. Thc+ r&d) he has forgotten more than I know about the plants, you will see him driving the short bus around or you could just look him up in the Member List and follow his Threads, always room on the bus for another passenger, just tell him I sent ya, VV