soil or hydro for taste flavor?

Hook Daddy said:

I too love to ski, tried snowboarding for a year, never picked a board up again, skis for me. That being said I just switched to indoor hydro so can’t vouch for the taste yet, but the yields are incredible, can’t wait to get it all cured. I tend to agree that some taste is in the micro nutes, but with a good nute system I think I will get close to Mother Nature. I don’t even pretend to myself I will be able to do better, but for the trade off of yield and ease, its hard to beat indoor hydro.

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myke said:

I just harvested some WW from an organic sip,I also have the same strain from hydro so ill compare when the organic is cured.

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Richard Drysift said:

Organic growing is sort of like snowboarding. Never seen a skier that switched to snowboarding go back to skis. Similarly you don’t see many organic growers go back to hydro. Usually it’s the other way around. You cannot beat the simplicity of a plant in a soil pot; you just water it. Couldn’t be easier...
Hydroponics is good for indoor growers looking for ROI; insanely good yields are the main reason for all the extra effort and energy spent imo.
Plants feeding themselves naturally through symbiosis w/fungi exhibit the full flavor profile of the given strain. Whatever is in the medium you choose to grow in will eventually be deposited into the flesh of the plants growing in it. This is why grapes from different regions make different vintages of wine. It’s the soil composition itself and the amount of rain that season that affects the flavor and sugar content, etc. of the grapes.
Maybe it’s because I always used cheap ass nutes but it seemed like no matter how well I flushed my hydro weed always had a weird taste. Once I switched to living soil I was so impressed with the quality of the end product for such low effort I never looked back.
It took an extended power outage to reach this decision: while all the plants growing in the aero rails died overnight the clones we had in soil pots survived by ambient sunlight. I bought a worm factory 360 and now I feed my plants mostly veggie and fruit scraps that would’ve gone into the trash anyway. I keep a few simple amendments on hand to recycle the soil over and over adding fresh worm castings each time; system is totally self sustainable.

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myke said:

I just harvested some WW from an organic sip,I also have the same strain from hydro so ill compare when the organic is cured.

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Richard Drysift said:

Organic growing is sort of like snowboarding. Never seen a skier that switched to snowboarding go back to skis. Similarly you don’t see many organic growers go back to hydro. Usually it’s the other way around. You cannot beat the simplicity of a plant in a soil pot; you just water it. Couldn’t be easier...
Hydroponics is good for indoor growers looking for ROI; insanely good yields are the main reason for all the extra effort and energy spent imo.
Plants feeding themselves naturally through symbiosis w/fungi exhibit the full flavor profile of the given strain. Whatever is in the medium you choose to grow in will eventually be deposited into the flesh of the plants growing in it. This is why grapes from different regions make different vintages of wine. It’s the soil composition itself and the amount of rain that season that affects the flavor and sugar content, etc. of the grapes.
Maybe it’s because I always used cheap ass nutes but it seemed like no matter how well I flushed my hydro weed always had a weird taste. Once I switched to living soil I was so impressed with the quality of the end product for such low effort I never looked back.
It took an extended power outage to reach this decision: while all the plants growing in the aero rails died overnight the clones we had in soil pots survived by ambient sunlight. I bought a worm factory 360 and now I feed my plants mostly veggie and fruit scraps that would’ve gone into the trash anyway. I keep a few simple amendments on hand to recycle the soil over and over adding fresh worm castings each time; system is totally self sustainable.

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PadawanWarrior said:

I broke my wrist my first time actually in 1986 when I was like 13. Very first run and all. I could instantly turn on my toeside edge and I was feeling cocky. Too bad I didn't know how to properly use my back edge and caught the frontside edge. Listing to Black Flag's In My Head on my Sony Sports probably didn't help.

So I got a cast and skied the rest of the year and a few more years after, before I got my own board. I learned how to fall though. I'm really good at it, lol. I've tripped a couple times in front of my family and they trip out on how it looks. They say it's like slow motion. When I know I'm gonna eat shit I just accept it and try to slow my impact and distribute the pain. Gotta Roll It Off.

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Mookjong said:

I think Sun grown organic is the most valuable. Everything else is a compromise based on security.

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Obepawn said:

A perfectly controlled indoor grow will bring out the absolute potential of a plant’s genetics in terms of taste, smell and potency. No cloudy days, no floods, no extremes in temperature and more control over pest. No comparison. Quality over yield any day.

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