HYDRO OR SOIL...what is really better

YepYep

YepYep

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I was just wondering what everyone thought. An old school rap song came on and was talking about growing hydro, Whitch lead me to wonder ....is hydro really THAT much better or is it just the hype around hydro that brings the attenchen? I grow hydro and soil and there is a dif in how fast it grows but havent been doing this long enuf to say for sure. So i ask my fellow pot heads. DIRT OR HYDRO? and why?
 
tip top toker

tip top toker

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Hydro is bigger yields and faster growth, soil means easy organics and flavour etc from the earth. Not aware in any difference in actual potency though.
 
bunnyface

bunnyface

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Hey,,
soil gives you a buffer unlike hydroponics. so defs and problems happen faster in hydro, just like growth. I think its roughly 30% quicker growth.
also with hydro your limited to the system your using,,as in limited number of plants,and some hydro you cant move the plants without moving the whole system. so turning plants or adding plants is alot harder..
Other may disagree but on average you would need to spend double the time 'gardening' and fine tuning your hydro system. so if you have the time its not an issue.
Id also say a bigger budget is needed for hydro,,cause you need to take everything into account with hydo, from equipment, like the hydro system and themometers ,nutes,etc.
I surpose you could sayhydro has more control.. but Im not sure of that..
This is my view and countless people will agree or disagree,,
take it easy
 
tip top toker

tip top toker

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Good point on the buffer, absolutely right, a lot easier to wipe out a harvest.

As to it's simplicity though, i guess it can be debated on the sytem, as can cost, but for a large plant(s) DWC grow it costs about £25 for the equiptment, and then i simply fill it up with water once a week, check ph and leave it till the next week :) It can certainly get a lot mroe complicate if you wish to make it so
 
dura72

dura72

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trust you tip top, always with the arguments!!! i know your more into your hydro mate, and i'm hoping to head that way myself but what i really meant was the 'buffering' side of it. when your a lazy drunken bastard like me its nice to know that its gonna take at least 4 or 5 days to kill my plants, gives me time to get my shit together and feed/water the poor buggers.
 
jesus of Cannabis

jesus of Cannabis

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hydro has better yields and mass but soil is nicer on the mistakes and wont get mad as much as hydro will. In hydro you can kill a plant in hours if you arent careful, soil takes a few days.
 
homebrewer

homebrewer

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I think it's easier to get food to your roots when growing hydroponically, hence the better performance. However, in a blind test, I seriously doubt I could tell the difference between my hydro crops and my dirt crops.
 
tip top toker

tip top toker

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dura72 said:
trust you tip top, always with the arguments!!! i know your more into your hydro mate, and i'm hoping to head that way myself but what i really meant was the 'buffering' side of it. when your a lazy drunken bastard like me its nice to know that its gonna take at least 4 or 5 days to kill my plants, gives me time to get my shit together and feed/water the poor buggers.
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Haha don't get me wrong, i've been thinking for months about going back to soil or coco for many or the reasons said above, but as you say, being a lazy hungoer bastard in the morning, and being a drunken twat at night, i often forgot waterings with my coco plants :D killed my mother cheese that way :p

Hydro done simply is kinda swings and rounadbouts to soil, but some of the other hydro solutions people have rigged up, well sod that! more work than i'm happy with :lol:
 
RoloTomassi

RoloTomassi

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tip top toker said:
DWC hydro for simplicity :D stalemate :p
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Perhaps. I'm new to all of this and it seems like you need to know a lot of stuff about general setup and maintenance before one considers hydro vs soil and I'd like to keep things as simple as possible for my first attempt. To me it seems that soil is a lot simpler, put soil in pots, occasionally transplant and water/feed plants with PH tested water/food... and that's about it, right? When I look at the hydro stuff it seems like you have to know a lot more about the apparatus and how to set it up and maintain it, which is more stuff that I can potentially screw up as a newbie.

I can be convinced otherwise but hydro seems a bit daunting to me at this stage.
 
tip top toker

tip top toker

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RoloTomassi said:
Perhaps. I'm new to all of this and it seems like you need to know a lot of stuff about general setup and maintenance before one considers hydro vs soil and I'd like to keep things as simple as possible for my first attempt. To me it seems that soil is a lot simpler, put soil in pots, occasionally transplant and water/feed plants with PH tested water/food... and that's about it, right? When I look at the hydro stuff it seems like you have to know a lot more about the apparatus and how to set it up and maintain it, which is more stuff that I can potentially screw up as a newbie.

I can be convinced otherwise but hydro seems a bit daunting to me at this stage.
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Oh, for first time i'd always reccomend soil, it's a lot safer, but once you know how plants grow and you're confident in what you are doing, something like DWC is actually very very simple if you do a little reading prior to jumping in (as i say, there are a lot more advanced setups than what i use), but soil for beginners no doubt, i lost one in soil due to PH, i could have lost all that first grow if it had been an issue in hydro.
 
ItsJohny

ItsJohny

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tip top toker said:
Oh, for first time i'd always reccomend soil, it's a lot safer, but once you know how plants grow and you're confident in what you are doing, something like DWC is actually very very simple if you do a little reading prior to jumping in (as i say, there are a lot more advanced setups than what i use), but soil for beginners no doubt, i lost one in soil due to PH, i could have lost all that first grow if it had been an issue in hydro.
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I jumped right into growing with flood and drain. Simple as can be. Add water, test it, adjust it, set the time and clean the tank onces a week. Looking forward to trying DWC, and soil. I was kinda worried about how strong it would be with soil, but seeing from this thread you prob can tell the difference..
 
ItsJohny

ItsJohny

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tip top toker said:
Oh, for first time i'd always reccomend soil, it's a lot safer, but once you know how plants grow and you're confident in what you are doing, something like DWC is actually very very simple if you do a little reading prior to jumping in (as i say, there are a lot more advanced setups than what i use), but soil for beginners no doubt, i lost one in soil due to PH, i could have lost all that first grow if it had been an issue in hydro.
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I jumped right into growing with flood and drain. Simple as can be. Add water, test it, adjust it, set the time and clean the tank onces a week. Looking forward to trying DWC, and soil. I was kinda worried about how strong it would be with soil, but seeing from this thread you prob can tell the difference..
 
dura72

dura72

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the easiest way is to buy it......i didnt say it was the nicest but it sure as shit takes a lotta work off your hands.
 
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