Ok..since it's fairly cheap and self contained, and I liked Tek's experience so far...I went ahead and ordered one of these.

I plan on starting from seed in each of the 7 containers, from some unknown strain of really good stuff that I happened to find some seeds and thought to save them. I'm hoping that at least 4 of them will turn female. If I do get a male, I may continue to grow it and then polenate a few of the flowers on the females to keep the strain going (I don't have the setup or the means for doing the clones/mother plant thing).

Anyway, after the plants have 3 nodes on them, I will top them (to try and manage the heights)...and then once each of the new tops has 2 nodes I will put them into flowering....this should hopefully put them at about 4-5" tall ..which should be a good height to start flowering, and by topping them, it will allow the seedlings the full 30 days to mature.

I figure short and bushy is the way to go with this. I don't think I'll get much yeild..maybe 1/2 oz from each of the 4 plants if i'm lucky..but hell...I can't complain about that!

I will try to do as Tek did, and post some progress pictures, and welcome the advice of everyone here! Wish me luck...