Well here goes my first post...
Airoponics is the way to go. Imo. Never gets too wet or too dry unless your pump goes out. I had that problem but cought it within a day. It rotted the roots but I think I used some hydrozime(sp) to bring the roots back to the right color. All in all it came out great. Nice football sized buds of WW. The roots were over 8 ft long!! Low maintanance. Just make sure you change your sprayers once a month and you will be fine. Its a little hard to do a large quanity. My roommate and I grew 125 plants and boy was it a beast of a system. I would use 10+ gallons a day.
I teamed up with another friend and we are using soil now. My friend is dead set on the tast of dirt (and he is funding most of it) so im stuck with dirt for 2 more crops. Its a little safer I guess cause we dont have to worry about losing the whole crop if something goes wrong. I just hate it cause things take longer to happen than the water. And its a pain in the ass to hand water a couple hundred plants every other day. SHIT Man im stoned and went off topic.
I started out with rockwool and an eb and flow. Flood and drain or whatever. I liked it at the time (10 years ago) but I had a problem with the rockwool getting too wet. My cheap timer's minimum time was 30 sec a day and it just flooded everything. I really cant blame anything but not having it set up right. But now days there is a few more mediums out there to work with.
The problem with those systems/dirt imo is (I may be wrong here, but it makes since) that you water and what just happend? You flooded it. It starts drying out and now its growing good. Ok now its dry and time to water again. So its starving for water. Unless you are on your toes and maybe using a small system it can be managed. But something is prolly gonna be dry. So only got 1/3 of growth in a since. Anyways my point is when you use an airoponics it is always the perfect amount of air/water ratio. It never stops growing.
Well its 3am and I could go on and on but I need to go to work at 10 so. Good luck with whatever you decide!
ps. Admins, Wheres the spell checker? You know stoners cant spell.