Quick question

How long does it take for cannabis in soil from clone/seed to flower vs hydroponics? Does growing using bottled nutrients faster than soil? Is it about the same? I’m currently using bottled nutrients indoors in rockwool and just curious if it’s even worth doing hydroponics or if I should just do soil.

You can flower in any media straight from seed mate.
In terms of yield though, hydro wins by a mile. Takes 7 weeks veg to get a 1-1.5lb plant from my experience. Can even get autos that size quite easily in a reservoir.
If your an absolutely awesome grower it can be done just as quickly in soil but the skill level required to do it is crazy. Not many soil guys can keep the pace indoors.
Pretty easy in hydro though. Just following numbers on sticks like a monkey.

EvilScotsm@n said:

You can flower in any media straight from seed mate.
In terms of yield though, hydro wins by a mile. Takes 7 weeks veg to get a 1-1.5lb plant from my experience. Can even get autos that size quite easily in a reservoir.
If your an absolutely awesome grower it can be done just as quickly in soil but the skill level required to do it is crazy. Not many soil guys can keep the pace indoors.
Pretty easy in hydro though. Just following numbers on sticks like a monkey.

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Thanks for the reply. What do you use? Soil?

A proper hydro set up run right will grow faster in veg than it would in soil.
Doesn't effect flower time though but you can have a bigger plant in the same period with hydro.

if this is your first grow, id start with soil, so much can go wrong with hydro
soil is more forgiving when it comes to feeding and depending on what size you want the plant, A 2 gallon pot of good soil may only need feeding once or twice. for the plants life
Flowering will take the same time, you may need to add a few weeks on to the total that the strain says it needs

I was just curious, thanks for all the replies. I’ve only ever done hydro because that’s all I was taught, and it feels like a big pain in the ass. I can’t imagine not having to mix nutrients, soak rockwool cubes, balance ph, clean instruments, clean reservoir etc lol

soil is much simpler to do, I find. ive never had good results trying to grow anything hydroponicaly apart from alo vera lol it all seems too much messing around for my liking, but if you know what your doing, then hydro may be for you

go go kid said:

if this is your first grow, id start with soil, so much can go wrong with hydro
soil is more forgiving when it comes to feeding and depending on what size you want the plant, A 2 gallon pot of good soil may only need feeding once or twice. for the plants life
Flowering will take the same time, you may need to add a few weeks on to the total that the strain says it needs

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Hmm...I'd say soils easier "if" you get it right.
Trying to perfectly pre-pack a pot to provide for months at a time take a lot of skill though. Trying to water it properly takes a fair bit aswell going by the thousands of posts you see on these forums about how to do it lol.
There's a lot more thought and knowledge required to grow properly in soil.
Hydro sounds complicated but its not really.
Just fill a res and leave them to it.
Check it once a week. Maybe have to adjust ph once a week.
Can't over water it or under water it.
Don't actually have to water them at all as it's automated.
Don't need to guess how strong to feed as the ppm meter tells you what doses the plants want.
If anything goes wrong you just dip the sticks in the res and they tell you what's up.
You can honestly grow pretty well in hydro with very little idea of what your doing as long as you have the 2 meters to tell you.
I'd say its a lot easier than soil.
Coco is even easier than full hydro too.
Need to know even less to get that right.
Feed quarter strength nutes, every day to run off at the right ph.
13 words. All there is to it.
Got much, much, much less chance of bugs with coco/hydro too.