fdd - i know, its pretty =]
rambler - lots and lots of reading... basically i've burried my nose in this site and every other piece of info (closet cultivating, ed rosenthal is my "on hand" reference for lots of things)... basically i've tried to learn as much as i can in the past four months (i'm a fairly intelligent person and i can generally pick things up fairly quick)... also theres all the experimenting i did during the grow... making mistakes has probably given me the most knowledge!!! asking questions and answering them myself through research (and asking others opinions, the more info the more i can make my own thoughts more clear)... i approached this whole thing like i do anything else i get obsessed with... but i know there are a million more things for me to learn and i can't wait to do so!
kp- yeah actually i agree... but the fact that i'm moving out of this apartment by the end of this month kinda is the real deciding factor... and yeah over the weekend i picked up the 10 dollar miniscope at radio shack.. mostly cloudy, a few clear still, a couple amber... gotta work with what we got, ya know?