Hello everybody newbie grower here. I've been getting it for my GF who has Crohns and it really helps. One day I stopped and thought to myself 'This is stupid. I'm taking risks I don't need to take for something I can do myself' so I've been studying, studying, studying, reading, reading reading, and finally started my first three babies. The first one 'stretch' I managed to successfully kill this week because I decided to repot him up below the bottom leaves. During the process I managed to knock him over and he didn't take it too well. 'Doc' and 'happy' are seedlings now and I'm a week or two from repotting. ATM I've just got them in a closet with a fan blowing until I can get the materials together to fabricate a good grow tent. Personal background is structural designer / engineer so I'm a very precise type of individual but I'm smart enough to defer to someones expertise when I'm learning a new discipline like this one. An aisde is I've done some CAD drawings for fun of a potential grow system that i can have built locally out of sheet steel scrap but that's down the road a bit. I found this place when I was looking for recipes for home made nutes as opposed to store bought. I like to cook and bake so a recipe shouldn't be hard eh? I was right and found a great thread by a former regular that is saved and printed. I'll start that process next week. I guess if I have any question at the moment that I haven't read a satisfactory answer on is I've come into possession of an LED light with a full spectrum that puts out 1400 lumens using 150 Watts. I'm concerned that the intensity of the light might be a little rough on juvenile plants. At the top of the plant I'm getting 31.5k lux and on the bottom I'm getting 21.5 lux. Currently I'm playing with bagseed until I get my system dialed in then I want to keep a continual harvest out of a SCROG system of four or five plants at a time. I've been blessed to find a mentor with successful grows under her belt who has been advising me thus far but I'm sure that's not always the case. She got me to where my babies are today. Lastly I'd like to reiterate what I've seen on this and many other sites. There is a large temptation to tell your 'buds' you are growing and hook them up. Don't. You ARE setting yourself up for robbery at best and at least a few days in very substantial housing with some very substantial room mates. I learned this the hard way many years back when I, shall we say, was involved in some nefarious and questionable endeavors. Fortunately I was only robbed but it set me back 1k which I thought was a much better deal than my kneecaps at the time. Looking forward to getting to know some of you and learning all I possibly can so I can reach my goals and keep my girl healthy.