Soil VS Hydro

[britewire]

GO!

(A few arguments why would be cool)

[mobay]

hydro all the way

[britewire]

Organic, because of the taste and strength of the weed

[friendowl]

hydro

[slave2thagroov]

BOTH!!!!:rasta: Og for my head, Hy for the bread:thumbsup:

[DoctorFeelGood]

Organic
DFG

[krustythfreakinclown]

In my limited experience, soil produces better taste, but lower yield than hydro.

Hydro produces WAY better yield, but doesn't tast as good.

I don't see a difference in potency either way.

[GrowinGreen23]

maybe if you change up some nute leve;ls maybe the taste would be better or maybe it depends on the strain but i havn't done mine yet so who am i haha

[Zandor]

sorry but you missed the best of hydro. Top feed drip, KBS, Aeroponics, ebb & flow.

You only deal with buckets and rockwool slabe. You did not say how you water the slabs.


lol

Just being political............hahaha

[britewire]

Pro's of hydro and soil

Pro's on Hydro; shorter growcycle, less wastematerial, no busting your back on bags of soil, cleaner, recycleble (coco, slabs, mapito, quantigo mediums)

Pro's on soil; better taste, possibility for organic growing, soil is a EC buffer so easier to grow on, possibility too use bacteria and benificial fungi, cheaper to grow on (additives are already in soil)

[elcheapo]

I argue otherwise that you get a better taste from organic, soil grows. Although it probably depends mainly on personal preference.
I was pro soil until I tried hydroponics. Now there is no turning back. It was the fastest growing, most healthy, high yielding, resinous plant I've grown. Also seemed much easier, less stressful and more responsive than growing in soil. The vegetable matter has virtually no smell but the caked on resin absolutely stinks. End product is much more potent and tastes a lot better than the soil grow with the same strain. If it wasn't a clone then I would swear it was a completely different strain. Also had a much higher bud to leaf/stem ratio with hydro.

[britewire]

I totally agree on the "more responsive than growing in soil" bit. I don't think yield are that much higher with hydro, I just think that people who are succesfull with hydro can have the same results with soil. And about the taste part, yes it's totally a matter of taste.

[elcheapo]

I think it was Latewood who had a thread/FAQ experiment on another website which directly compared soil and dwc. It was a fantastic read. Hopefully, if it was him then he can post a link or submit it to this site.

[britewire]

I know a guy on another forum who harvests 1.25 grams per watt on his plants (growing organic on soil). I didn't meet a hydro grower yet who achived yields that big. But I'm hoping to find it in this thread.

[elcheapo]

Surely we will find people who harvest more than 1.25g per watt doing hydro on this site. I think we just have to wait for others to login and post.

On my first hydro grow/experiment using an average of 53Watts of CFL over the entire grow I got over 1 gram per watt. The harvest was also bone/snap dry and well manicured.

[Zandor]

Like this, One plant 3.5 pound dry, trimed buds?


Yup they are old pictures but they still make the point. Hydro does grow faster and yield more if you know what you are doing.

[Bender]

HYDRO..

But none of the ways you listed..:rasta:

[Garden Knowm]

BOTH!!!!:rasta: Og for my head, Hy for the bread:thumbsup:


yeah, what he said...

Aerponics.....

[britewire]

Zandor, what huge plants you got! :)

Why grow such large plants when you can use that space for a lot more plants? Plants that large only mean that it takes longer to grow = less grows per year.

[Garden Knowm]

Less PLants means that you are probably not breaking the LAW...

LOVE

Even if your ONE plant is giving you more bud than 40 plants!!

[britewire]

You think?

[Zandor]

It would take hundreds of small plants to yield that crop. That would be a felony anywhere. KBS takes only 90-110 day's. Hell even my last SOG took 80 day's.

[Garden Knowm]

80 days.... sounds PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!

LOL

[britewire]

80 days?

how long did you VEg on those plants?

[daima]

GO!

(A few arguments why would be cool)

Hydro can be good if you dont make any mistakes. Soil acts as a buffer, unlike hydro, it will not put your whole crop in jeopadry if you fucketh up.
Soil is much more forgiving, with more options.

dai*ma
Weed cannot be any stronger than its genetic background. THC is a molecule that cannot be strengthened beyond its genetic make-up:confused:

[Zandor]

Hydro can be good if you dont make any mistakes. Soil acts as a buffer, unlike hydro, it will not put your whole crop in jeopadry if you fucketh up.
Soil is much more forgiving, with more options.

dai*ma
Weed cannot be any stronger than its genetic background. THC is a molecule that cannot be strengthened beyond its genetic make-up:confused:

Well the first part is true, dirt does act as a buffer.

The second part is half true and should be clarified a bit.

It's more a matter of bring out the best in the plant. The environment, nutrients and lights affect THC.
It's more a matter of us degrading the quality and not providing the proper nutrients and conditions then the plant going beyond its make-up. That's why 2 different people can get different yields out of the same seed.

[krustythfreakinclown]

I know a guy on another forum who harvests 1.25 grams per watt on his plants (growing organic on soil). I didn't meet a hydro grower yet who achived yields that big. But I'm hoping to find it in this thread.

Find that thread.

1.25g/W?

Daaaaaaammmmnnnn!! :rasta:

[britewire]

Okay..

It's in dutch and I couldn't find his old thread, but I could find the log witch he's growing right now. There's a couple of referances and pictures of his previous grow in there somewhere.

The guys name is Sanny, and he's a master in scrogg and making strains