Hey everybody. Just starting out with growing here. I'm in for a treat. I have spent close to 5000.00 U.S. dollars on this new hobby. I'm in it for money, not smoking. Just placed my 3 babies (Green Spirit) in the rock wool today under a 600 W CFL. This is a killer hydro system so far. The flowering side has 600 W HPS. I've purchased 1,000.00 worth of seeds. Those being Green Spirit, NYC Diesel, White Widow, and Arjan's Haze #1. The 3 I have started are all the Green Spirit Strain. I'm in Ohio and am lucky enough to have purchased a 4 yr. old single family house out in the country, with the previous owner back in Florida. The cool thing is, is that I have an indefinite amount of time to close on the mortgage. This means that technically the home is still in the previous owners name and I can walk away when I feel like it. I have sole legal control of the property and a general warranty deed that says so. If I have to set it ablaze if the popo gets too close, I can. A little bit of gasoline in a kerosene heater is on standby in the next room. I have 9 acres to plant outside next summer If I am so inclined. See, I got sent to prison for something I didn't do. I was forced to take a plea bargain. Two rough years gone. I can't get work for shit because of my felony. I was just fired again last week. No crying here though. I adapt. This home is just used for hydro growing and it's very fucking sweet I must say. I have rigged it with a police scanner, long range antenna, high powered binoculars, alarms on every window and door, dead bolts, rods in each window. I stole an ADT sign from some neighbors down the street in the house I'm actually living in. I have an infared driveway alarm that buzzes inside while I'm there. I have blacked out the wondow in the "hydro bedroom" My neighbors which are a little over 100 yds. away from me, have been nice enough to install a high gain high speed internet antenna for their wireless connection. I have my wireless laptop leaching their highspeed at 49 Mbs. They were nice enough to not secure their network. It's wide open. So....I purchased skype and use my laptop as a telephone and it works like a fuckin charm lemme tell you. I pay like 3.00 for three months of phone service to anywhere in the world. Along with the hygrometer and various other tech. instaments, I'm golden and could not have wished for a better set up. Well, cable tv but I have to pay on two mortgages at the moment lol. So, I will be on here regularly from start to finish and will be providing pictures and asking advice on my new adventure. I've learned so much from reading on the subject while incarcerated. I suppose I have my AA in hydroponics lol. We'll see. Anyhow, wish me luck everybody.