Ive been searching for the past half hour and all I can find is that I need CFL's, pH monitors, and all this fancy stuff, do I really need all that for just some average growing, the lights I can understand, but all that other stuff.

I also couldnt find anything on how to grow either, like how to tell male/female, whats the diff between male/female, what stages a plant goes through and what to do ect.