Fog - One method I'ver seen almost all the pros agree upon for noobs is the KISS method. I'd kinda like to keep that in mind. There's so much to learn and so much to deal with, even with just a basic set-up.

I don't even know if I will use CO2 for the first couple of grows. If it's an absolute necessity, I will. If it's not absolutely necessary, I won't. This is one reason I want the extra cooling capacity in the room; so that I have the versatility to change and adapt.

Maybe I'm wrong, and I hope someone will correct me if I am, but my initial and main priority is to get the irrigation system system automated and to learn the intracasies(sp?) of watering and nutrition. I think my time is much better spent on learning the essentials then on dicking around with gadgetry. I can trick-out the room as time goes by. I just know me and I'm such a damn perfectionist I even drive myself crazy sometimes. I can only deal with learning about and perfecting a limited number new things at any one time - and learning just the basics of this hobby is involved.

I smoked some of the bud from the same mother my clones came from. It was killer!!!!

You're right about this forum being dead for the last couple of weeks. It's like all the pros just dropped off one at a time. I hope to hell they're all ok and just busy harvesting or something.