instead of everyone complaining about RIU lets all do something to improve it! here's some of mine;

1. growfaq needs to be rewritten. has anyone ever gone into growfaq and looked at what it says about ph?? everyone that comes in here is not a scientest, simplify!!!
2. growfaqs needs a better step by step tutorial for each of the different ways of growing, soil,hydro,aero, etc.. if RIU asked some of the more experienced growers to write a better explaination about their different ways of growing. these tutorials must include pictures on the different phases of the grow.if growfaqs was written better the less questions you will have in the threads.
3. RIU needs a picture gallery that not only includes pictures of different types of grows, but also includes what a healthy plant is suppose to look like at different stages of grows. again the experienced growers can contribute pictures of healthy plants and RIU staff can look at all submitted photos to be chosen for growfaqs.
4. compile a better group of pictures of unhealty plants so newbies like me can use it to compare it w/ their own unhealty plants.

i can go on but these are just the tip of the iceberg. RIU needs a face lift. lets give it one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

U could make it pretty cool........... U know like a main page...

where ya can choose from diffrent things : EXP.

No-Competition Home Page - That forum is the bomb..... Now change that around to a smokers paradise

Like Pic of the day....... And stuff like that.. videos, and all that crauzy daily stuff that gets you excited

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exactly right dwr, the more ideas we give RIU the better the site will be!!!!

get to typing

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i wrote a how to on CFL growing but it was never used, its floating somewhere on the forums now

It's August, for God's sake! 08 Outdoor Growing Thread is mostly 3 to 6 inch fucking plants! My Dogs shit bigger plants than that! Doobie is right. Spider mite section sucks, so does the cloning part. There's a WHOLE lot of info being given out that is missed, and FDD & others is busy trying to put out the fires. Everybody knows who you Guys are, and a round of applauses is WAY over due. However, the info is free, and the sponsors, I guess has to make back invested funds. So who's to do the reconstruction for free? At any rate, here's what's Really happening.
(1.) Newbies, Me included, ask the same questions, and others give there best to answer in the best of their ability. The response given by me & others is sometimes not correct & often misleading. Adding to the confusion of what to stick where. If a list was made, it would ONLY be about 50 different topics. That is if the main topic was considered, IE; Growing fucking pot! That IS the Conner stone. Once the primary topic is covered, yeah, music, sex, mind-fuck ideas can surely come into play. But the problem is that the main subject of fucking growing pott has been highly diluted in other non-essential topics, as interesting as they may be.
Having something to literally KILL your Babies is a serious thing. I'm talking about Spider Mites. Instead of 14,000 helpful remedies that may or may not work, why can't we have one solution that works and be done with it? I know that drinking cyanide will kill me every time. I/we want a solution that kills the bastards every time without hurting our babies. This water is not muddied by where you live, what strain you have, or all the other complications. It's just a little thing that a concise answer can be given. I seriously think I found a solution, but it's worthless to fellow growers if not placed into the FQ&A section.
Like me, the info offered is wonderful & confusing because of the variety of methods of growing shit. Closet, hydro, soil, outdoor, strain, the list goes on & on. Mixed with info of opinion, further muddies the water.
A check-list priority will solve the questions like "When should I plant, what type of Nutes should I need, how long is a string?" For the record, I don't mind the questions. I do mind the wonderful info given out that we have missed, causing us to go in a fucking learning circle. A waste of potential knowledge. How many post has been introduced on molasses alone? Here is the fact that should be in the FQ&A's segment/index. Check Hydro or soil. Molasses does not leap tall buildings with a single bound, nor does it cause your face to rot off, but here is a list of it's molecular components, and here is what it does for your plant's & why. I know most, but a SMALL Bible type explanation in the FQ&A "Index" would finally solve the fucking mystery. As it stands, we got a running cluster fuck, with nobody willing to step up and say.... "To give your babies the utmost growing ability, We have ran independent non-biased test for all the name-brand ferts advertised, such as Canna, Fox Farm, Blood Bud, Earth Juice, etc. However, before any competent analogy can be done, we first & foremost, must find out exactly what the plant actually thrived for, for "The Perfect, Healthy Plant". It isn't a fucking mystery, the plant craves a certain amount of this & this, and that. It's a weed, and the EXACT answer is widely available. So what is the Exact need of the plants? If it's goat shit & piss, why not tell Us, damned the high dollar ferts. Plant health overrides all other aspects.
I'm out on a limb here, support would be welcomed. A cooking section would be nice, also.

A big part of the problem here is that there is only one site admin. The site admin holds the keys to the kingdom. RIU could probably use at LEAST one more site admin, someone who knows the software, or at least how to find hacks, how to handle the site database, and so on.

I hope that my pointing these things out doesn't mean I'm BITCHING, which would make me a BITCH. Ouch! Woof woof!

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this is censorship RIU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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