Also it's winter now in many places and the traffic on the site goes up overall when we aren't outside playing. I'm on here twice as much when golf season ends.
This is exactly the time you should be out there, it's safer for everyone.
The shnkrmn and myself both belong to club 600, the six hundred watt club, to be exact, the Roger 600 Watters. In my humble opinion, the best thread on RIU. There are quite a few of us who have been there for some time and more people are joining the fun. We strongly discourage negativity. We occasionally get someone in there who wants to be a dick but nobody plays along and so the trolls don't stay too long at all. I was reading a thread with two extremely knowledgeable growers, it was like watching two kids argue over toys, sad. Each insisting they knew more than the other. Instead of arguing amongst themselves, they could each be helping others. This was a severe case of big egos in action. Personally I have come to the conclusion, there is no wrong way in our hobby, there might be ways some will disagree with, but wrong, no. I grow for me, not for the people on here and not to be involved in a mine's bigger contest. As long as I have one jar with something inside of it, I could care less what others say I must do if I want to do it the 'right' way. We were all new at one time, the least we should do is share our knowledge with each other. The world is already crazy enough, there should be at least one place of sanity we can all go to in times of craziness and RIU is the place. Do not let the ogres and trolls discourage you from learning. There are some really great people on here willing to share, why waste time on a bunch of assholes who want nothing more than to irritate others?