yea i got a grow book and i'm sure there are a lot of good ones. but unless your investing a lot of money and are very lazy (thus not wanting to find everything on net). you should be fine.

the guides i posted are good. but they are rather high level and go into detail you may not be interested in.
zandor posts a great grow podcast thing which is very interesting.

here are two good online sources. you can spend hours and hours reading there and you will learn a lot.



http://weedfarmer.com/growing_guide/

http://greenmanspage.com/guides/

make sure you research your purchases. I would say that when people compromise on a purchase (to save money) it's usually were they fuck up