WOW, I really have enjoyed following this thread! I must say, tenacity must run in your family, I would have probably just never gone back, but I am older and stay within NORML's limits to 5 plants in my state and only grow on private property... and I still sweat bullets when my outdoor ladies keep staying tall and green and not ready yet as all the other vegetation dies back! I do actually understand your enthusiasm and love for your plants, I was ur age when I started growing in an attic of an apartment building I was living in... I spent afternoons over fertilizing, over watering and pruning! LOL, and I was on probabtion for possessing it. I look back and think how much the great life I know today would have been different if I had been busted for the twenty or so plants I arrogantly had in all the windows. I have had my skirmishes and thumbed my nose at the law in the past too, but life is too good to take chances like getting sent away for plants you possibly could never see burst into buds anyway. I guess Im still a rebel and still growing and being a young headstrong grower at one point in my life I applaud your never say die attitude, but the been there done that guy would say just build yourself a hydro setup, build her in the privacy of your house and dont say nothin more about it to anyone... except maybe the ole lady who might notice the big vented box in the corner!
Best of luck...
look forward to more harrowing tales from the never give up commando!
CHEERS MAN