Quote Originally Posted by aceofangels
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.
BlazinHerb is right, do a google search. But to answer your question about male/female, when the male flowers and starts to show sex they develop "pod" like sacks around the node area. The female grows a white hair known as a 'pistil'.

Also males don't produce bud/flowers and therefore has no yield or smokable weed, so people tend to throw them out once they find out it's a male, males are only useful for pollinating the females for seeds.