LOL, yeah. My first experience with plants consisted of me getting some sort of red fern from a big box store for my aquarium. I was told just to sink the plastic basket, wool and all, into the rocks. It'll be fine, they said. No lights, no ferts, no root tabs, no clue.....
Later on, from the same store....it's where the pets go, don't ya know.... after I started doing some research, I was told if I got my light to 2 wpg, all I could ever grow would be algae. I'll go for the insanely low tank prices when they have them, but for info... I do my research here.