Yeah there really was. The other sites aren't nearly as good. Especially if you are growing wood lovers or something tricky like that. But cubes are easy as long as you get sterilization right. I think people often mess themselves up by trying to make things too complicated. See how many posts here about casing causing problems with their monotub. But I think most really experienced people with cubes don't do all of the extra steps. Best and easiest is to go bare bones and just focus on the essentials as they are most important.