Best grow guide?

What are some of the best, completely comprehensive guides to cultivation? I'm looking not just to grasp, but master the trade. I don't mind reading and sifting through loads of information, and chronology (step by step instructions) is not of the utmost importance as long as all the information is there. My main concerns are that all the information is accurate and up-to-date, and that the book won't leave me with unanswered questions at any part of the growing process, from novice to pro. It would be nice if it's hydroponically-biased, though that's not a requirement. My potential setup is described below.



I know almost nothing of cultivation, but I'm looking to reverse that and start my own operation in a very well-sized, walk-in apartment closet. I'm not concerned so much with the setup's price, maintenance, difficulty/learning curve, time consumption, or even crop yield as much as I'm concerned with security, stealth, portability (the ability to relocate every piece of equipment and destroy/hide every piece of evidence at a moment's notice lest the landlord infiltrate my place [4th Amendment out the bloody window]) and crop quality. For these reasons I've more or less eliminated the prospect of soil growing and I've all but decided on a hydroponics (or aeroponics?) setup. The (unmodified) closet's only intake/outtake is the door; ventilation is an enigma. This is as far as I've gotten.

I liked Ed Rosenthal's Marijuana growers handbook
I also read Cervantes' Marijuana horticulture...medical grower's bible....LOL...what a misnomer
And last but not least I downloaded onto my Ipad grow great marijuana by logan edwards

....that and a couple of grows under my belt and I think I know what I'm doing. I definetly needed advice about curing which I got here on RIU.

I started witht the Logan Edwards book... had lots of typos, some of it I found later to be 100% plagerized, and it even reprinted some of the same pages in two places. Was not impressed and it left lots of questions. Hooray for RIU.

...one more reason y I didn't put all my stock into one book. Plagiarism? Say it ain't so. Mb I'm in the wrong buisness.

I liked Rosenthal's stuff for the most part. I found Cervantes' to be good with excellent pictures and illustrations but it was absurdly repetitive. I'm not sure if Jorge was running out of things to say or it was just a bad job at editing. One common mistake I've seen is that many growers buy publications devoted only to growing cannabis. There are literally thousands of books available on basic/advanced botany and horticulture that can help dispel many of the myths surrounding cannabis cultivation. Ask a professional that grows orchids or other exotic tropicals for a living what they think of the requirements for growing cannabis and they are likely to laugh at the relative simplicity.

Ryan Ryley: Growing Elite Marijuana, is one of my favorites. He repeats a few things but at the right intervals so you dont forget certain things so easily, c'mon we are stoners. I found this book to have better pictures than most, it also had useful tips like " in the famous words of ed rosenthal, "a plant grown in 24hrs of light will grow 33% faster than a 18/6hr light regime." I was like NOICE!
It also feels as if Ryan Riley is in your garden next to you dishing out info. remember the ph and what not.
So yeah Check It out!!!!