I like how utterly forgiving soil is, and I do think it does taste better. I started growing about the same time as a friend, who went hydro from the start, neither of us with any prior experience growing anything at all. He ended up frying three crops (broken pump, misread the nutes once, dunno what happened the third time). So a year later and he still had basically nothing to show for his effort and investment, while I just kept chugging along happily with soil and at the end of the year had a refrigerator full of jars full of cured and/or curing kickass stuff. He finally got his shit together, and he now (finally) outproduces me, but he agrees, mine tastes better, even when they're clones from the same mother. But he's in it solely for the money, so he's happy with hydro. Me, well, money isn't bad or anything, but I'll generally choose quality over quantity, and have no regrets sticking with soil.
