Ah, good questions :-)

1. you can do a search for that person's name - say i am looking for an old thread of mine where i posted photos, i would look for "froeschli"

2. the foodsaver, it has happened to me a few times, i don't know why or how it got there, (i kept thinking it was my clicking in the wrong spot for a while) but using your browser's "back" button will get you back to where you were.

3. photos, not 100% sure, but using the image upload (choose file) function, i have not run into a size limit. GW will resize the image for you. - that limits you to one photo per post, but it will stay there for good.
If you use a hosting site such as photobucket or flickr, you can probably add as many photos as you like to the same post, but they disappear after you move/delete them from flickr/photobucket. (some of the older threads had great photos, and now they are all gone. bummer.)

I presume, things like the foodsaver ad pay for the storage space & bandwith for your photos ;-p

Karin

When I first joined the Forum and asked a lot of humble, beginner questions, WhiteLacey and Irina kindly held my hand and answered every question. Another old time member, who no longer posts here, suggested reading the archived posts that can be found at the bottom of the page.
Reading those, a few at a time, provided a basic background. Joanne

Hi: joanne :) ...are archived posts at bottom of page the same thing as the page numbers I see?

Karin :) ...thanks for the suggestion of your name...it forced me to copy and paste which led me to copy and paste Irinas too ... before I really couldn't find her posts because I wasn't posting Irina_co .... and she is the one who I think is most expert on hydroton and avs.

anyway .... I think some of the confusion has lifted ... :)

foodsaver ... i'm totally grateful to them for sponsoring, if they do...it must cost an unbelievable amount to keep this site running. Usually no matter how often I go back and try to use different links to get back to the forum i'm still in facebook ...so then I just close down and re open.

it is frustrating when photos disappear .... I don't think I need to use photobucket etc (here at GW)... unless the kb's of the photo are too large for the rules.... but up until now I haven't had gw deny any of my photos ... so I have no idea... I just read from one poster that the photos were supposed to be 64kb...and my minimum size is probably 200kb....

Hi T&B,
Yes, that is what the archived posts are. I should have mentioned it sooner. The oldest one is the oldest thread. They eventually disappear from the bottom of the page. However, when you type in the name of a topic on the search feature, it will pull up older threads. I find usually the least amount of words used in the search, the more older posts related to the topic can be found. And yes, you need to have the name exactly correct! Seems that there were others who were involved in that kind of planting you referred to who wrote a lot about it, not just Irina. J