although on a break from doing what i love, i still love to read about buds, read about growing buds, and see everyone elses current love affairs with growing this wonderful plant. i was an active member of hg420 for a couple years, and previous to that, overgrow. growing gets in your blood in my opinion, and out of all the hobby's i've had over the years, this one has stuck! a little background.......started growing several years ago. first grow was some bag seeds from my brother, all males, did more research, had a somewhat successful grow with some F2 lowryder seeds, got some buds (not much) but the feeling set in of producing. built a nice C13 cabinet (the part number for the white cabinet from home depot) using a 400w hps with a batwing reflector. ordered a couple different strains from dr chronic after that which yeilded poorly, then went with female seeds white widow (can still get clones from others i gifted to almost 5 years ago). got good yeilds in soil with that and fell into the commercial thing. went full hydro. two 3x3 ebb and flows and 2 thousand watt hps's. traded clones with friends, grew sensi star, wonder haze, a couple runs of hashberry, more widow, juicy fruit, got into bubble hash making, etc....... went through a nasty divorce (still going through it). moved my shit elsewhere just to have the ex turn me in out of spite. chopped 48 plants down 2 weeks from harvest and trashed them only to get raided and caught with lights, rockwool, and misc bullshit. trial starts in 2 weeks.....only looking at a year probation but learn from my mistakes......TELL NO ONE! anyways.....waiting on some white russian seeds to arrive to sit on, finish my probation, and get on with my life and get back to what i love to do.....