We always had a vegetable garden growing up so basic plant care was nothing new to me. I had a family friend that had been cultivating outdoors for about twenty years. He chose to gift a clone to myself and my housemates one spring. We did most of the tending, and once or twice a week he would stop back over to check progress and offer advice. It's still the only outdoor crop I've dealt with. By winter that year I had purchased a Handbook by Billy McCann, found this excellent forum, and set up a tent indoors =) Had some rough times, had some great times, every harvest I'm looking forward to the next time.