okay folks, which is best....(yeild)

i've seen really good soil grows, where people have harvest half pound per plant. and ive seen terrible soil grows where people have harvest 10 grams a plant...
i've seen really good hydro grows, where people have harvested 3/4ths a pounds in less time then soil, and have seen bad hydro grows, where they burn the plant dead.
i've seen good vegan, organic, soil, hydro, aeroponics.

my question is, between vegan, hydro, and soil, which is the best way to get yeild... because i like my plants to look dense, and have huge colas.. i just love it.
and when they look like that, that means, its a huge yeild. im thinking dwc(5 gal buckets) is the best grow. becaausssssseeeee.. the plant grows about 40% faster. and you get huge colas. butttttt, can you use vegan stuff in hydro? i dont know if im the only one who has thought of that. but its sounding like a good idea, not only would you get, quantity, but quality for medicine.

and, what are the best nutes, for hydro for yeild. if anyone can tell me.

All methods have the potential for great yields, many different paths to the same house.

Choose the method that fit's your budget, environment, and most important availability; it would suck to start and then find out you can no longer find your products (although the internet smashes this point, if you buy online)

regards,

yeah, your right,

Hydro tends to be faster and with good genetics can produce some dense buds. In hydro you don't want to use organics or anything that has to be broken down if your looking to see all the benefits. Having the nutrients already broken down and available to the plant. But like you said you don't want to burn them to death. Figuring out what your plants like by monitoring the ph and Ppms will help with that. Your looking for the sweet spot where nutrients and water are being uptaken t similar rates, signified by a steady ppm.

KingstonR said:

Hydro tends to be faster and with good genetics can produce some dense buds. In hydro you don't want to use organics or anything that has to be broken down if your looking to see all the benefits. Having the nutrients already broken down and available to the plant. But like you said you don't want to burn them to death. Figuring out what your plants like by monitoring the ph and Ppms will help with that. Your looking for the sweet spot where nutrients and water are being uptaken t similar rates, signified by a steady ppm.

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Good breakdown although steady stable pH is not always the best solution, nutrients have different ranges for effective uptake. I like my pH to start around 5.6 and finish around 6.4 before dumping, if done right this takes about 10 days; I don't do weekly res changes.

regards,

The only thing I had a problem with doing DWC was I ran through a shit ton of water every 7-10 days.
I was only doing six plants and ran through 30 gallons a week. It was a pain in the ass emptying and refilling.
You use half the water with double the plants in the same amount of time doing it soil. Just a thought

Also make sure you have plenty of airstones!

ru4r34l said:

Good breakdown although steady stable pH is not always the best solution, nutrients have different ranges for effective uptake. I like my pH to start around 5.6 and finish around 6.4 before dumping, if done right this takes about 10 days; I don't do weekly res changes.

regards,

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Thank you, I didn't mean to say for the ph to be stable, I agree fully with you. I let my ph swing within the range, not only for the fact that different nutrients are more readily available at different points but also I'd go crazy trying to keep a solid ph of 5.8 in all my res. I should have worded that differently, something like ph can tell you what the plants are doing when taken along with ppm. If ph is dropping and Ppms rising your mix is most likely to hot, they are taking a bunch more water than nutrients. Also for first time hydro growers getting use to making sure that ph is within that range at all times is essential