Hydro vs soil whats the best route
Ok this age old question....
Hydroponic is far superior to soil in everyway. Hydro includes coco coir and any other inert media. Let me clarify why....
You are creating an environment that is exactly specific to your plants needs. Anyone who grows hydroponically will rarely go back to soil but soil growers can get quite upset at the fact hydro is more efficient and effective and done correctly quality is far superior to 99% of soil grows.
More air in root zone provides much stronger plants that means they can take more nutrient onboard and produce heavier denser buds faster.
Its cleaner with less likely hood of pests when keeping ckean grow spaces.
Its very simple and what you give is what the plants recieve.
In terms of yields, speed of growth and quality hydro wins hands down.
People think hydro is complicated, i guess it can be if you over complicate things just like anything. But as long as you understand PH and EC/ppm you cant really go wrong in the simplest hydro set ups like hand fed coco coir. Remember you still need to understand these values to grow well in soil also.
Its true coco and hydro mediums need fed daily or multiple times daily and when manual feeding this can be labour intensive but its simple to add a drip system to do the work for you, set up in minutes and placed on a timer. Then if you want you could go to your grow once a week and it will look after itself. However most growers are in there grows daiky anyway.
Soil is cheaper to set up sure. And supersoils are great, im not saying soil is a complete waste of time, if you take time to use quality soil specific to marijuana you can have awesome grows.
There are people who get fabulous results in soil. But you can not deny the efficiency and growth rates of hydro. It takes practice but so does growing in soil.
I think if the question is which is better gor producing yield, quality and growth rates you cant argue soil is better. You have to have experience of both to have a true balanced opinion also. Its no good only growing hydro and never in soil and saying its better cos thats how you do it or vice versa. Its been a long time since ive grown in soil, years now and thats because i see no real benefit to it when hydro mediums arw so simple to access now.
Remember you can grow complete organic weed in hydro also, it doesnt mean chemicals and poisoning the environment. Even non organic feeds are high quality these days.
Anyway im rambling but coco would be a good step for anyone diving into hydro from soil or starting out growing. Check out my coco thread and my journals for any info on growing in this medium.
At the end of the day its all personal preference and just do what you want. Good luck with what ever you choose.
