Soil gives you more time to react, it acts as a buffer.Ok so here is my breakdown of what I thinka about the topic, I generally disagree that using a hydro system will give you a better yield then using a soil system. I will agree that there a hydroponics system has a faster growth rate but is the yield any better ? Just because something grows faster does not mean it grows bigger, ecspecially in with the same amount of light and space. If you factor in time over a couple grows then hydroponics systems will have a small edge in yield. However if you have a seperate vegitation room, then the timing is not the issue.
If you have great aromatics, this is a only an opinion and is only relevant to your growing skills and the methods you use. If done properly, soil will give you buds that will smell as strong as those that are done in a hydropics setup.
I tried a hydro setup and the reason I switched back to soil is my time factor, hydro will eat your life awayhydropics systems are expensive to setup and they alot of monitoring so your whole crop does not get fried. Using a soil system I can water on friday and go away for the weekend and my marijuana plants will be fine. If you were to leave a hydro setup and something were to go wrong you could wipe out your whole crop. Granted something could go wrong with a soil setup however if you loose 1 or 2 I would not be to worried.
There you have it... my thought on soild vs hydroponics, hydroponics will give you a better growth rate but I do not believe it will give you better yields.
I agree hydro is better than soil but that plant doesn't look anywhere near 21oz dry maybe 6 dry ...maybe.hydro is simple and yields very well with less problems than soil
plants grow faster and get larger and produce more
this plant grew in a very simple NFT system that cost around £40 with only 20 liters of reservoir capacity
the dry yield was 21.5 oz
it is difficult to produce that sort of yield and a plant of this size in soil .. with such a small compacted root space
20 liters of soil space would not grow this plant to this size or yield
peace
I don't think so. the taste is all about how you flush and cure. I've done both and soil is great for outdoors period. Indoors I use rockwool in leach trays or buckets depending on how big I want to grow my plants. As for soil being forgiving, yeah right. If ph off in rock wool just flush several times with the proper ph water. Soil if you just watered you won't be able to that you'll make the soil so soggy the plant will be over watered. Soil sometimes has bugs in it when you first buy it. I've had it happen to me before. What real funny is I grew 1 blue which I grow really big in rock wool thought I'd see the difference in growth in soil and it was a major let down the Abusive Og in rock wool did 4oz the blue dream 1.5oz the Las Vegas purple in rock wool 5.5oz dry weight. But outdoor I love making my own mix. This year gonna try Geo pots (a better made Smart pot) outdoors.
Have you ever done hydro? If so what did you use? and why don't you like it?GO SOIL!
FUCK HYDRO!
