Should I switch to hydro from soil?

This would be my second grow. My concern is that I've heard hydro bud has less smell and taste, and I had two water pumps fail on me during cloning. Do I really want to risk my whole crop on submersible pumps & a single power outage? At least if the electricity goes off with soil you are just looking at fucking up the light cycle, not killing the plants in a couple hours.

The additional expense is another consideration - I'd have to get PPM meters and at least one more pump, plus different nutes.

That being said, what's the best and easiest hydro setup for a hydro noob? My soil plants turned out pretty well. I've been thinking DWC would be the cheapest.

Thanks - Ian

Start with dirt farming and make the switch to hydro after you know what you are doing.

I bought a fancy 4-trough hydro set-up from a grower going out of business. He was supposed to
mentor me for the first couple of grows but took off to Australia instead. So I ended up with a
thousand dollars invested and didn't know enough to clear the pump filters. My first 2 attempts
crashed and burned before I ever got a chance to burn anything. But I studied Jorge Castenada's bible
and started again in dirt. Now I have a half-dozen successful grows under my belt and probably enough
knowledge to do a proper hydro grow. So start in dirt. It's a lot simpler and the mistakes don't necessarily
end the grow.

Good luck, BigSteve.

I like dwc but any hydro setup is fun and really not that difficult to do.

Start with a hempy bucket. It has no pumps since you seem to have extremly bad luck with them.