ahhh,
I remember the days when i got so warmly welcomed too....
But in those days,there was an excellent site for growing info and that site was called overgrow.com

That place is gone today but parts of it survived thanks to some dedicated folks.
They have compiled most of the grofaq from OG and posted it on piratebay.

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As for the og growfaq,you'll find it here : The Pirate Bay - The world's largest BitTorrent tracker

I just finished downloading it and gonna give it a look.

QB