Well it's been a long while since I stopped by so here's an update: the summertime hydro experiment didn't go too well for me as I was unprepared for the heat (first indoor grow was started last fall, the hydro was my third, first summer) and I got a lot of brownish root rot, initially from high res temps. It seems that my rapid pH dropping was a signal that I didn't interpret in time and when I did nuke it with H2O2 I may have overdone it. Temps were into the 90's on several occasions - 600w is a lot warmer than 400 even with the cooltube. Finally put a chiller on the res and finished the plant out. It had massive amounts of airy fluffy buds that taste & smoke great but are weird cause they are so fluffy. Here's a pic of one of them.

Finally found some Afghani Bullrider clones and grew a mother. Current (soil!) grow is 5 of them in my trusty HydroHut with a 600W. I flowered them early and didn't top these as an experiment since I have topped all my grows in the past, I wanna compare.

Anyway, just wanted to stop by and give a shout to the many folks here who helped me get started in this great hobby.