Depending on which coast or border you live nearest has something to do with my recommendation. And, Remember...BE DISCREET don't put the store clerks at risk or yourself...Do Not say the 'M' word!!! they do not want to know that they are participating in a conspiracy with you to grow that schtuff that has to do with the 'M' word. with that said.

Cali...
Green Coast hydro/gchydro is great...good people, have had a few discussions about Advanced Nutrients, they are AN experts. Funny thing though. they are the ones that told me to use Liquid Karma, instead of B-52. that's another story. Mike is one of my mates there

Bghydro for light ballasts and electrical wiring advice...I bought my 1000w
ballast, mogul base, from them and they walked me through wiring it. :thumbsup: (Actually, it is real easy to do, once you have the ballast in front of you)...I did a step-by-step that Zandor put in growfaqs; thanks to them...Dave I think, from S. Africa helped me out

Up north...Growco/4hydroponics.com great people and service and prices...
They do not carry Advanced Nutrients (old school store)...But, they have the best hydro supply catalog I've ever seen and will send you one with your order
They have ...EVVVEERRRRYYYYthing...it's like the old sears christmas catalog.
the cool thing about growco is that the catalog allows you to visualize what you are always reading about in these forums...for instance, If Zandor says...Well I use a greenair controller...such and such...then you look it up, find a picture, a description of what it does, and a price! you learn something and get a picture of it in your head, now you can plan ahead to your system and room design....whheeeewwwww, I'm :stoned: long winded/fingered
I buy my lamps...hortilux, sunmaster from Jay...up there...If Jay had advanced
nutes, I would probably buy everything from him.

I pretty much buy from these 3 hydro dealers or I find things like my new 6' light mover on ebay...I have found alot of my AN additives on ebay...
My nute regimen would cost about 200 bucks to start-up in qts./liters
but I have found some great deals...like calmag and B-52 both bottles under 20 bucks...that's over 1/2 off...I got my voodoo juice for about 25 bucks and it sells for 70 bucks...hope this helps.lw :smokin: