Well you guys know I love hydro so.....

Rock....here is what I see....without even trying it you've dissed hydro. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to bop you over the head. You've already decided it's not for you. just like the lighting etc etc.....nope, nien, not a chance. Guess I'm just too old these days to repeat myself until you hear it and I've been with you the whole time. Yes I said it was a hearty plant......but nowhere did you hear me say you should do ALL THOSE THINGS ON THE SAME PLANT. You got to that stage all by yourself and somehow you've gotten the idea that I TOLD YOU to do this. Sorry, I'm not taking the fall here.

If you went ONE grow...ONE....following directions carefully.....no adding, changing, improving etc.....you could grow a kick ass plant......I have absolutely no doubt. You have everything you need including an excellent knowledge base to work off of (c.dot) and feminized seeds to start.

My several thoughts with you and hydro are this.....there are all sorts of cool things you can test, study, check, adjust etc in a hydro setup which will keep you busy without "helping" your plants so much. Also the growth is much faster.....as you know....and I have a feeling that once you actually see a plant grow decently it will do more than anthing else to teach you to leave things alone. I quite honestly think you just don't know any different having never seen a good healthy plant grow. When I was trying (poorly) to grow my stuff outside I thought my 3 inch plants were the bomb.....yeah, the soil thing was slow but look at my three inch plants.....until I went to my friend's house and hers (exact same age) were a foot high. That gave ME a pretty rude awakening right there and I spent the rest of the summer jumping through hoops trying to fix things.

And this nature baloney.....ok fine....get out your horse, icebox, outhouse etc......return to nature.....have fun. I happenn to think they invented things like air conditioning and penicillin for a darn good reason.