Protea
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when me and the wife bought this house (that has a good basement room for growing). i spent loads of time thinking how best to present the idea of growing to her. before i find a good way. this book come from amazon.She had orderd it for me, and totally approves.
it was hard to get alot of the info at first. but this book has thought me so much. i know it isn't perfect but I have spent so many hours reading it. one thing i missed as a super noob(now i think of myself as just a noob) was a small scale grow example, like the big scale one there is, but whit less than 1000 watts. and two lamps max.but it is easy to find growlogs, so not to bad. adn some of it is not relevant to newgrowers, like how to install a light mover, and lot of security things that dont mean that much where i live. so i read selected chapters rather than the hole book. in the beginning. the chapters on hydro/outdoor/guerrilla/breeding and others, where not so interesting for me, since i was using soil indoor. but as i learn things as a grower it very helpful to me to sit down and read the air and water chapters. and maybe in a few years the breeding chapters will be interesting
he does over complicates things and has loads of lists, and charts, and whatnot, now i find them good, easy as a referrals, like the pH lockout chart in the soil chapter. and many of them are irrelevant to my grow. this is a hard book for beginners, but it they went through the trouble of getting this book, then they are interested on growing, and they will read it and understand it, not all in one go, but they will do fine.
and the book has survived into our third grow. and has only slight sign of wear. if it would be in hardcover it would be the perfect book
it was hard to get alot of the info at first. but this book has thought me so much. i know it isn't perfect but I have spent so many hours reading it. one thing i missed as a super noob(now i think of myself as just a noob) was a small scale grow example, like the big scale one there is, but whit less than 1000 watts. and two lamps max.but it is easy to find growlogs, so not to bad. adn some of it is not relevant to newgrowers, like how to install a light mover, and lot of security things that dont mean that much where i live. so i read selected chapters rather than the hole book. in the beginning. the chapters on hydro/outdoor/guerrilla/breeding and others, where not so interesting for me, since i was using soil indoor. but as i learn things as a grower it very helpful to me to sit down and read the air and water chapters. and maybe in a few years the breeding chapters will be interesting
he does over complicates things and has loads of lists, and charts, and whatnot, now i find them good, easy as a referrals, like the pH lockout chart in the soil chapter. and many of them are irrelevant to my grow. this is a hard book for beginners, but it they went through the trouble of getting this book, then they are interested on growing, and they will read it and understand it, not all in one go, but they will do fine.
and the book has survived into our third grow. and has only slight sign of wear. if it would be in hardcover it would be the perfect book
or university, but that's more expensive. I recommend starting with BIO131 and CHEM131. These are the foundations of how our world works. Life truly is nothing but a series of chemical reactions. 
