Why do hydroponics yield more than soil?

[SweetnSauer]

more availability of nutrients? bigger root system?

 

[whitey78]

I always thought its the readily available nutes (thats how its supposed to be anyhow) and the basically unlimited area for roots if done properly.

Theres ways to get close but it takes a fair amount of experience to pull the kind of yields the average hydro guy can, but theres also benefits to soil as well, its easy, taste, easier to go organic to name the first couple that popped into my head.

 

[Rrog]

I agree with whitey. Also, most "organic soil" grows seem to simply be some medium that ferts get poured onto. I wonder how a large pot with a no-till method and covercrop would work against chem fert hydro. I know which one I'd rather smoke.

 

[mcpurple]

they dont plain and simple.

 

[Rrog]

Not so plain and not so simple. Everything is a trade-off. Like most things, the more you deviate from the way it's supposed to be, the more screwed up it can become. Look at the food we eat today and the way we look today. We weren't meant to live on fast food and chemicals. Same with dog food. Dogs did not evolve to eat dry kibble, and that's why dogs stink. Plants didn't evolve for millions of years to develop an incredibly efficient relationship with soil and micbrobes only to have man come along and say oil-based chemicals that Monsanto creates are better. There's a price in terms of plant quality. Nutrition quality. It's not natural, so obviously there's something going to be lacking.

 

[Balzac89]

soil grown has more flavor and smell. yield depends on alot of factors

 

[Rrog]

soil grown has more flavor and smell. yield depends on alot of factors

That's about the size of it. And I sure don't want to start another chem vs. organic thread. To each his own