Twasn't you that was put on ignore, FourTwenty4Life...but I'll be damned if I'm going to keep getting infractions and being banned because some twit get's offended. Ignore is a self-preservation technique I plan on using more often, albeit only under extreme conditions. Often enough I've shared words with someone, and have no problem offering them future guidance. Holding a grudge carries no weight here.

Other than the mods, (and not even sure about them) none of the members here get paid a dime. So if you want help, you damn well better be prepared to provide (without getting all prissy) the required info to help us help you, instead of creating more work for us. Anything short of a complete rundown of you equipment, your techniques and your indicated problems...is a risk. Not to my garden, but to the person asking for help. (and a complete waste of time, too)

If someone wants to bitch about the level or quality of help you get, fine, I understand some folks inability to take advise or criticism, and I cary no PhD in plant biology. But your emotions are not my responsibility. Along those same lines, if you chose to let personalities get in the way of learning how the fuck to bring your meds to harvest, then again...it's you and your meds that take the hit. Either way, you have a decision to make. Be offended that I didn't give bertoxxulous a reach-around, or see the parts of this situation that bertoxxulous brought upon himself. His original post, and his subsequent response to my calling his method of requesting assistance as lazy, (which it was) being an example. As FakeBoobsRule told me once...you reap what you sew.

If you are looking for a saint to come hold your hand and whisper sweet techniques in your ear, I'm the wrong person to help, as I obviously don't play well with other's. Never have, likely never will. Regardless, there are other's here capable of helping you along your merry way, and I'm comfortable with deferring to them, rather than risking my membership and wasting my time.

Ever notice that although I've never met any of you, I seem to have a hold on a lot of people's emotions in here? My dispassionate and often gruff presentation of gardening techniques is my personality. Period. So is it my gruff, no-nonsense approach that some members have a problem with, or is it other's inability to be open to criticism?

And bertoxxulous: Nice to see a newbie found one of the articles that's been going around here for a year or so in regards to the PVC outgassing contaminates in the growhuts. That is however, a far cry from taking advice about growing techniques and troubleshooting. Were it not for your newbie friends spreading bogus info in your growlog, perhaps you wouldn't have been here looking for help in the first place. :jointsmile: