I'm just wondering if you can grow the same quality pot in soil as you can hydroponically, or is the hydro is always gonna come out better?
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I'm just wondering if you can grow the same quality pot in soil as you can hydroponically, or is the hydro is always gonna come out better?
Howdy Mick177,Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick177
I always thought that it was the other way around..can you grow as good weed in hydro,as ya can in soil..hydro is less forgiving,when it comes to newbe mistakes..I believe. I hope to git into hydro growing,with the dwc method,a bit later in the year and I'm hoping that it will turn out as good as my soil grows.
Have a good one :)
Hydroponic grown cannabis being better than soil grow is one of the biggest myths. You will be able to pull faster crops, but by no means better. Most connoisseurs prefer soil grown outdoor bud to hydroponic. The complexity of soil medium does seem to give cannabis a bit more earth and natural flavors. But growing hydroponically does not give you any more potency than soil growing. That is much more a matter of genetics and the grower's technique. :)
Hydro grows faster, bigger and more potent when done properly.
Good Kannabis Growing!
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Originally Posted by KanMan
Ditto that really.
With hydro, you have to control the varialbes a lot more, but you get quicker results, and most would argue a biger yeild. Soil is more forgiving and needs less attention.
I've completed a soil crop a few months back and just sent my next lot on a manual hydro set up. I'll let you know how it turns out if you like
Potency is more about genetics. You can grow just as potent bud from soil as you can from hydro. Hydro just has a faster turn-around time which makes it great for commercial growing. But nothing beats organic outdoor buds for taste! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by KanMan
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Originally Posted by sawleaf
sawleaf is 99% correct....The only thing I disagree with is "nothing beats organic outdoor buds for taste? When I flush, dry, and cure NO one has been able to tell the difference. Organic is still a chemical to the plant. Not as much as the hydro chemicals (being man made) Organic growers don't flush as a rule but some do.
With Organics you are still putting things into the soil and feeding the plant with nutrient matter that is foreign to the soil in the first place. (Fish emulsions comes to mind first, that stinky shit) It may be Organic by definition but it??s still just as foreign to the soil and plant as the nutrients I use. In nature you will not find the levels we use all the time whether you use Organic or chemicals you are still injecting foreign matter into the soil in amounts that is not natural to the graphical area.
When you add nutrients above and beyond what??s in the natural soil (and you need to so you can grow quality and make up for the plant being outside of it??s natural place to grow) is still putting chemicals of some type (either man made synthetic or a blender with a dead fish) into the plant and soil.
I??m just saying Organics are not the chemical free ride most think it is when they think of the term of Organic. It??s slower to grow. The yield is not as high as you get with the proper Hydro setup and nutrients and the quality is equal so I say go for the yield. More is always better in this regard.
Potency is as much genetics and predetermined as the environmental conditions you grow it in. You can grow the best strain in the world but if you do not have the right environment the plant will not develop to it??s full potential.
??Better living through chemistry is what I always say.?
Hydro and Aeroponic growing are easy.. don't beleive the hype when peole say it is hard..
A resivoir can be set up with the a simple propoer fert regiment and be left alone for a long time.. or you can tinker with it everday
With just a bit of research and some genuine interest in growing HYDRO can not get any easier..
"forgiving"... well, if you make a mistake in HYDRO, your plants will react right away...... and hopefully if you are attentive to your plants, you will probably notice it right away.. but also remember these mistakes happen in soil also and the plants take far far longer to recover from soil mistakes as opposed to hydro or aero
don't get me wrong I am not knocking soil.... soil is great.. and nothing beats outdoor soil...
but hydro indoor is INCREDIBLY fun and easy to work with....
SMB
Hydro is faster than soil. but the potency is the same. I find with good soil you can get a nice earthy taste hydro cannot do. If you get exotic soils from Africa, some plants will get that real nice nice earthy smell and taste. It talks about it with this strain by femaleseeds
Wow you just gave me the greatest tip ever! I can't believe I'd never though of that before. Ordering exotic soil!!! Gotta do some research on it now. Thanks. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by llamaman666
ive always found chemicaley fed hydro plants taste chemically. not nice....give me soil any dayQuote:
Originally Posted by sawleaf
ke-mik-e-lee is a real hard word to spell anyone know the real spelling...
as in chemical..
www.overgrow.com/article/22 tells you all what u need to know bout hydro vs soil
Great article, but I wish they would've put down the smoke and taste results. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by mellow mood
Agreed that is all that is missing.Quote:
Originally Posted by sawleaf
Personally i get more thrichomes with hydro grows then with soil grows, equals more potency for me at least. I think it only stands to reason plants will grow better and faster in hydro.
Flushing and/or water cure makes it taste and burn really good.
Good Kannabis Growing!
I've seen side by side grows, what matters most is the grower. That person in the OG article said off the bat they are used to hydro....hmmm I wonder why the hydro came out so much better. I've seen side by side with a soil grower, his soil came out much better than the dro (even though I would've expected the yield on the hydro to outdo the soil).
Hydro is faster and will yield more. Potency should be mainly genetically determined trait.
zandor,
I think with these liquid organic ferts people should still flush because it almost defeats the purpose of organic (using soluble fert). In nature organic material is decomposed in the soil, there are bacteria that fix the nitrogen into a source that can be taken up by the plant and other minerals and elements are available from the decaying matter. This is a process and takes a long time so the plant takes what it needs gradually. You can overfert, overfeed and make a plant taste gross by pumping up the fert levels. I believe that growing should be about nurturing a plant rather than trying to kick it's ass into growing by pumping water and ferts (chem or organic).
I think hydro is harder to deal with since small problems can kill everything so fast. Some root rot (which isn't hard to get at all) is devestating. I was trying a DWC but it caught the root rot (I think my water quality is horrible here) and within 3days from being completely healthy (after H2O2 treatment about 6 days before) it was completely dead. The soil ones looked 100% healthy. Plants grown in soil have at least some buffering capability due to soil, they tend to be able to take more abuse. Plus I live in an apartment and the bubbling noise was making me paranoid, and if a pump goes out while you're at work or out for the weekend...they will die.
I do think that sometimes hydro just doesn't seem as tasty, then again, I don't know what kind of nutes the person who grew it was using.
The science of modern day hydro came about in a minimalistic manner. This was when they were determining what the different elements a plant needed. They would give a plant no N....and it'd die, so they knew N was essential, then they gave it everything but P, it'd die, so P is essential. If you take a plant in nature and have it studied they will find thousands of stuff in the plant, they just take up whatever is in the environ. Plants found near gold mines actually have Au mineral within them because they just take it up from the ground. So it's not hard for me to imagine that there are things available in organic matter that make a difference in the terpene chemistry of the plant which would be lacking in hydroponics due to the method in which hydroponic nutrient solutions came about (through minimalistic science).
An example would be, we've known for years that veggies and fruits were good for us because of vitamins that they had. But more recently (not that recent anymore) they've studied phytochemicals and have found that these help a person to avoid cancer and they have synergistic health benefits. To this day, a vitamin still isn't as good as mother natures fruits and vegetables, I have no reason to believe it isn't the same as with cannabis. Sure a scientist can grow a whopping tomato bigger than what mother nature can, but I'll give quality to mother nature.
But it's american philosophy, bigger is better. Bigger, faster, cheaper, richer, less effort, instant gratification.....it's the cause of all our health problems and probably a fair portion of our other problems. I'm actually more a science guy than a hippie but I will give 2 opposable thumbs up to mother nature...now I just need to find somewhere to grow outside lol.
Wow PhillyKid, great post. I have nothing against hydro at all, but I will always be a soil grower. I believe there is much more to growing than modern science. Growing to me is about nurturing your plants into healthy beings. I believe sounds, atmosphere, and a good vibe are just as important to plant health as nutrients. There is a certain spiritual aspect to growing that is often overlooked. I am not the only one who shares this belief. If you read DJ Short's book Cultivating Exceptional Cannabis, he discusses how plant growth and smoke can be effected by the growers vibe as well. Why is it that the same strain grown under the same conditions by different growers can have such different characteristics to the high? Characteristics that match the growers personality!?? :)
I hear you on the flushing?I flush more then most do, I run a flush with just about every water change now and it makes my like easer. Hydroponics done right is not for the faint of heart, you??re right there. I don??t think the trial and error of what to feed and when to feed was an accident. A Good Refractometer or (Brix meter) will tell you how your nutrients are being absorbed and used by the plant. I have one but I only use it when there is a problem and my experience does not tell me what it is.
Taste is personal and I respect personal opinion. I can only give creed to what I grow and cure and mine is better then soil but again it??s my biased opinion. As an American I guess growing more pot in the same amount of time. Using the same space and growing with fewer plants is a good thing. The yield can be much higher then the same time, same space, same light, and same environment as soil. To grow 1.5 pounds from one plant will take what 6-8 months. With hydro you get that with ½ the time. You just need to grow in near perfect conditions and regulate everything to grow stress free KBS style.
Growing outside is not an option for a lot of people in the US. Growing over 99 plants moves you into the federal jurisdiction in the USA and that is just out of the question.
It??s just nice to get 10 pounds of dried bud with 10 plants inside every 80-90 day??s is all?.I guess that does make me a typical American?.hehe I never thought of it that way.
Soil is more forgiving for 90% of the people growing today.
Soil is slower to recover and slower to show signs of problems.
Soil does not require as much work as Hydro
Soil will not return the same yield as hydro grown for the same time period, amount of lights, and environment.
Soil cannot feed the plants fast enough is why it would lag behind hydro.
I have been growing in hydro for so long now I guess I??m not the person to judge either. All I know is with lots of money and time you can grow 10 pounds or more with 10 plants. The caregivers I grow for all love it. I love it, and grow nowhere near the limit of plants California law allows for me and 6 other people. It does require cycle growing and is not for the faint of heart only because the cost is so much to get started in KBS most people stay away and I don??t blame them. I have noticed that different strains do not grow as well in hydro so I just stay away from them but that still leaves me about 100 that do. Pure sativa does not grow as well in hydro for example but a 40/60 cross will do just fine.
The potency if the THC is determined by the genetics.
The grower and environment determines the amount of THC the plant produces.
The more THC produced does make the plant more potent thus requiring less of the product to achieve the same desired effect. Hydro growing faster is why they say it??s more potent because the same time spent with soil and harvested will not have as many trichomes available to contain THC.
Soil is for I would say over 75% of the growers because they only need a few ounces from one plant and have other lives to live. Soil requires less money to setup and less work to keep going. After all this is a weed.
The taste I guess remains a personal choice but as long as it is flushed properly and cured correctly I don??t believe there is enough difference to tell. Most people who sell hydro do it for profit and they rush the drying and curing process like they rush the grow process. I still believe that the taste is determined by more of the variety of the strain and the curing process then anything else.
I will not waist time dignify the comment that hydro is ??minimalist science? that is plain bull shit and un-informed.
love-ley
Zandor, I agree with just about everything you said, but why do you think that what I said about hydro coming about from minimalist science is bullshit? I'm not offended that you think that, I was just wondering what you thought of it, cause it's obvious that you know your shit.
I didn't mean it as a real knock against hydro. Some of the first folks to use hydro indoors (what I term modern hydro, since hydro has been used for thousands of years) were scientists. My only point was that when they first started to determine what a plant needs they used hydroponic growing. They would analyze a plant to see what was in it, then they would make a solution and leave out one component, like Nitrogen. Well the plant would turn yellow and die, so they analyzed the plant to figure out what Nitrogen was used for. Then they would leave out something else. That was how they figured out what were essential macros and what were micro nutes. At least according to the Cambell biology book (probably used by most universities).
What I mean by minimalist science is that anything that didn't make the plant get really deficient was seen as unessential and not needed. Who knows perhaps some of the things they nixed have a synergistic function with other things (as in my vitamin example) because it wasn't seen as essential to a plant.
I have seen man outdo nature very rarely. If you look at a kidney machine, sure it's about the size of a small fridge (much bigger than a human kidney) but it performs only one of the functions that our kidney's do. All the vitamins and supplements we have on the market, sure they can pump you up but it's a poor substitute for real nutritious food. The power of mother nature (well really evolution) is incredible. A human heart beats on average for over 70 years at about 50-60 beats/minute, it creates very high pressures and yet it doesn't break down anywhere near as often as a man made pump. Think of the very best proofreading machine ever. Now consider that every single one of your cells has to copy just about every single base pair on each of the 46 chromosomes correctly or else you could be in serious trouble. One deletion mutation shifts the reading frame of the DNA thus making every single gene that is coded for on that chromosome garbage. Your cells do this from the time you're born till you die. For 70 + years it copies all these strands of DNA with no errors. You have on the order of 10^ 13 or 10 ^14 number of cells, that's
1,000,000,000,000,000 cells each with 46 chromosomes. There are about 3 billion base pairs in those 46 chromosomes, 5% of which codes for things. A cell cycle takes about 24 hours so it does this in a paltry 24 hours. No need to go looking for miracles, the fact we aren't all cancer ridden and dying is a miracle in itself. Imagine copying every line of every book ever written in 24 hours with no mistakes.
My take on things is toward a more eastern philosophy. Everything must have a balance.
One thing I do like about hydro is that you can measure your ppm one day and then again the next and it's so much easier to find the right balance point than with soil. The problem is that a lot of people don't do this right. They see a bottle say 2000ppm and they give that to the plant whether the plant is in balance or not. They like to pump up the nute concentration to the outer limits of what a plant can tolerate, all the while not aware that just cause you don't see damage doesn't mean things are all good. A person will live years with cancer before it gets so bad they show outward symptoms and a burned plant has suffered damage before it's been burned.
Done properly hydroponics is a very useful method depending on your circumstances. You can take a ppm reading and if it drops the next day you know the plant is taking in more nutes than water, if it rises it's vice versa. It lets you achieve an accurate and precise measure of water vs nute intake so you can tailor your nutrients.
It's also the method I would use if I were to grow commercially or for several people. But if it's just for me then I don't need such great yields.
there is no best method, just what works for the individual and serves their needs. I'm not arguing for or against hydro, I don't think you are either.
:( i smok hidro every day and i love it i am growing in soil and it taste like shit how long do i need to flush it for it wont tast like shit :(
Are you referring to Practical Skills in Biology? I know that book it was great for rolling joints on in school.
The only reason hydroponics is used in the lab is because it shows negative and positive reactions faster then anything else. Science is all about eliminating possibilities, and the business of science demands fast results so Hydro as their choice makes sense.
Marijuana is not a typical fruit bearing or flower bearing plant either and you can??t apply that science to a resin production plant. Fruit bearing and flower bearing plant have quite a lot in common with each other and play a role is nature??s life cycle. Allan Jones rewrote some of their findings if memory serves me right he helped Cambell with the first one I believe. C. R. Hawes Plant cell biology is better in understanding an explanation of microinjection and micromanipulation and I find that more relevant to Marijuana cultivation.
Marijuana is a dichotomous short day resin producing plants. The requirements are different then most traditional plants in nature today. These plants will adept to almost any environment and that is what makes it so wonderful to work with. Marijuana does not really grow flowers, or fruit to eat. It produces resin that contains THC. We smoke the plant to get the resin. The negative side is the natural chemical chlorophyll you ingest when you smoke marijuana to extract the resin. A resin producing plant has many different requirements from non-resin producing plants and has a short life cycle where there is tremendous change every 24 hours in the cell structure. It??s very sensitive to the environment around it, how may other plants can change their sex if it gets to hot and produce viable seeds that are not part of the skin or fruit?
I feel hydro is the best way to achieve the maximum production of resin for the limited cycle of this plant??s life and the best way to keep up with the fast changing requirements of a short life cycle plant.
I did not find you analogy to vitamins relevant at all. With vitamin supplements you get the nutrition with out the sugar and poison used to grow it in again and again and again in the same soil leaching nutrients and making the plant modify it??s genetics to adapt to the changes in the soil.
??Your cells do this from the time you're born till you die. For 70 + years it copies all these strands of DNA with no errors. You have on the order of 10^ 13 or 10 ^14 number of cells, that's
I thought we were talking about growing Marijuana?
1,000,000,000,000,000 cells each with 46 chromosomes. There are about 3 billion base pairs in those 46 chromosomes, 5% of which codes for things. A cell cycle takes about 24 hours so it does this in a paltry 24 hours. No need to go looking for miracles, the fact we aren't all cancer ridden and dying is a miracle in itself..?
I think this is wrong too; there are thousands of influences in our everyday life that I feel have the ability to change and alter human cells. Electromagnetic radiation for one is found all around us. We assume the levels are not so high as to hurt us but after 20-30 years of electromagnetic radiation science did find a change in human cells a rise in cancer, birth deformities, and other anomalies. The DNA strains that control life were altered by outside influences was the finding.
You said ??But if it's just for me then I don't need such great yields? and that the point. Your needs are from your prospective and based on your experience. Do you not think this influences your opinion of what the outcome should be? You arrived at your conclusion by observation and trial and error. That limits your data and manipulates you outcome but does it make that wrong? No not really, data is only relevant to the time and manor it was collected and what you are going to do with the conclusion will affect the outcome.
Thanks for the debate?.good luck with your grow. Stay safe and stay healthy.
Thanks, I'll try to find the book you're talking about. The cambell book is a basic intro biology book so it covers basic plant biology but it doesn't get really in depth.
I looked at hermaphrodism in plants more closely, and it seems that a lot of plants other than cannabis can go hermaphroditic. I read one site that stated it was around 70% of flowering plants are hermaphroditic
"Hermaphroditism is very common in plants -- about 70% of flowering plants are hermaphroditic, while only about 5% are dioecious and 7% are monoecious. About 7% of species exhibit gynodioecy or androdioecy, while 10% contain both unisexual and bisexual flowers. It is thought that flowering plants evolved from a common hermaphrodite ancestor, and that dioecy evolved from hermaphroditism. I have gone into more detail, with respect to the evolution of dioecy, in my field report on Sagittaria latifolia."
LOL you're right we were talking about mj, all that other gobbledy gook is just nature vs man kinda arguing. But yes, of course outside things can alter DNA, if you're in a highly radioactive area...yes you will get damage, or if you ingest carcinogens and yes your DNA will be changed. But if you consider the marvel of the human body, so many things have to work so efficiently and so well just to survive. I'm only talking about errors during synthesis and not outside effects. I still find the fact that I'm alive to be a real long shot.
If it weren't for the noise of pumps, and the fact that I'm not home at least 60-70 hours a week due to work and commute than I would probably get a RO filter and go the hydro route at least just a round for testing. An experienced hydro vs an experienced soil grower, I would bet on the hydro grower out yielding the soil grower and I don't think the taste would be all that different. Hydro is great if you can be around more to check on them, it requires a bit more daily attention which makes soiless mix a better option for myself. The other reason I haven't tried dabbling more with hydro is that most systems have a common res which makes growing different strains problematic. Like if you grow C99 and something like Neville's haze in an ebb flow table you won't be able to flush the C99. (if you know of a good way to grow different strains simultaneously in hydro without having to change 3 or 4 reservoirs I'd like to know). DWC would be an option but only if you have good moms and clones already set. and I don't keep moms cause I just don't want to be growing all the time, it raises the probability of being busted so I'd rather get a decent yield to last 8 monthes or so and then close down and enjoy my weed paranoia free until I run low and have to grow again.
Hydro is probably one of the best method for commercial growing. Most commercial growers want to max out yield so they grow homogeneous gardens rather than trying to grow 5 strains at once which can make it tough to get a good even canopy. It also makes SOG a hell of a lot easier than having 50 little pots to water.
Lastly, that quote in your sig, I have a poster with Albert Einstein on it with that same quote, it's one of my favorites, just seemed like a funny coincedence when I read it.
Peace
Zandor and phillykid
This post was one of the most informative posts i've read on here . You both know quite alot about. my hats off to you both, it was a pleasure reading this. I used to grow with soil, now i grow hydroponically. My areoponic set up along with an ebb and flo, easily grows fast and better than soil. useing organic nutes and flushing produces product that is cleaner than any soil grow. Ever try flushing out a soil grow ? Not very easy to do cause soil remains with some of the minerals no matter how much or long one would run a hose in it.
great post
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Guys, this is the best damn thread i have ever read on this site. Thanks for sharing all of the knowledge and experience, and expecially for taking the time it took to type it all. For newbies to the science like me, this is good stuff. Soil vs Hydro? I just love GOOD BUD......later....
Hermaphroditic transformation is nature??s way of surviving that??s all. Not everything in nature needs M/F balance; nature will always find a way to survive. In nature where survival requires a third party (ie. wind, bees, ect) to deliver the pollen to the female to maintain the species in the absence of this third party there is always hermaphroditic transformation. This is triggered mostly by environment. Most noticeable HEAT will trigger what I think of as a panic mode. This is buried deep in the plants RNA and is where I believe the hermaphroditic transformation trigger lays. It occurs later in the plants cycle of life as short as it is in the first place. When the plant is near the end of its life (last 45 day??s of flower period) there is less THC production at this point. The trichomes grow the most in the last 3 weeks then in any other time during the life cycle. The 2 weeks prior to that point (the plant is it??s most fertile and also the most sensitive to the environment. If the plant only senses female hormones I believe this is the point where the temperature will trigger the hermaphroditic transformation.
The bonus of manipulation at this point is having mail flowers growing on a female plant. Soma uses this method to make female seeds. He uses the mail banana to pollinate the whole plant and make female seeds that grow a female plant (and charge more for the seeds). He claims this is a more natural way of stressing the plant and manipulates the life cycle.
So you are working with the broadleaf arrowhead? I thought that was a wetland plant grown around lakes, streams and ponds? Does it produce resin too? I thought it was just a food source for waterfowl. Have you found any common ancestors to the Cannabis plant? I always thought it was a close cousin but that was years ago in college and those times are a little fuzzy.
Anyway before I ramble on to long thank you for the great discussion I have enjoyed it.
Happy growing to you, stay safe. Someday the walls may comedown and we can have a cup of coffee and a joint and test for ourselves if there is a taste difference.
Thank you everyone who is using their valuable time to read all this. We both have tended to ramble a bit hu? You should hear some my lectures if you think this is rambling. ??The future of Application development for the small to medium business? was a real edge of your seat topic last year at the developers conference ...lol
Yup, hermaphrodism makes perfect sense from a natural selection point of view. Just wondering why you think it resides in the RNA rather than DNA? It seems that plants that have high incidence of hermie have offspring that have similar lack of tolerance. Like thai plants so I would figure it'd be contained in the DNA. I actually thought it was probably more of a trait that was controlled by several genes rather than just one.
Dunno if that broadleaf question was for me, but if it was then no. I work as a technician in a neurovirology lab, mostly doing molecular and cell biology stuff.
Yes yes, I'm a rambler lol. Glad folks found it informative, I did as well.
Peace
Sir Francis Crick in 1968 that first suggested that RNA must have been the first genetic molecule, further suggesting that RNA, besides acting as a template, might also act as an enzyme and, in so doing, catalyze its own self-replication. It was proven in 1980 by Nobel Prize-winning researcher Thomas R. Cech. RNA has the ability to act as both genes and enzymes. This property could offer a way around the "chicken-and-egg" problem. (Genes require enzymes; enzymes require genes.) Furthermore, RNA can be transcribed into DNA, in reverse of the normal process of transcription. These facts are reasons to consider that the RNA world could be the original pathway to cells.
Virtually all biologists agree that bacterial cells cannot form from nonliving chemicals in one step. If life arises from nonliving chemicals, there must be intermediate forms, "precellular life." Of the various theories of precellular life,(and there are many of them) the most popular is "the RNA world."
Yeah, but cannabis is a plant and plants and animals are higher organisms I've never heard of a higher organism use RNA as sole genetic material. Some viruses use RNA, like HIV, it basically hijacks your cell and uses reverse transcriptase to convert it to DNA after infection.
Once you get outta the viruses most everything else uses DNA to produce mRNA to produce proteins. But RNA probably preceded DNA as you suggest. There are several forms of RNA (mRNA, tRNA, rRNA) and some act as enzymes and others act to translate the DNA code to make proteins.
Viruses and prions are candidates for precellular life. Some argue whether or not viruses even qualify as life forms since they need a host to propagate.
I don??t think we are going to have an answer to this one for about 10 to 20 years. This is chicken-n-egg stuff so the answer will need positive proof. Even that will be suspect by right-wingers and every religion on earth.
I look forward to the day you and I can sit and have a cup of coffee and a joint. Thanks for the conversation phillykid420 it??s been fun and enlighting.
I would say that hydroponics has got to be the best thing since sliced bread.
I am new to hydro and have a few sprouts coming up in rockwool in a flat. I am going to buy or build a hydro system this weekend and was hoping one of you experienced hydro experts might lend a recommendation on what you prefer. Thanks in advance.
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ok wheres the Zandor KBS style dvd?
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It will be more of a book on how to build the setup but not until next late year. It's in the planing stage but I have some other projects to finish up first.
Sounds cool.. yea my 2c on hydroponics.. grow veggies first... learn how to do it right.. then try a money crop..
just like soil growing i guess.. if you have never even had a house plant or anything.. well.. drop a bagseed in soil and start reading FAQs like your life depends on it.
you have to start somewhere right?
Definetly true I wasted 5 seeds of blueberry because I had no clue what to do. I read and did research for the last year before I tried again and it has made so much of a difference. I knew what to do right away with what little I had and then added as I could. READ READ READ and then read a little more. Go on yahoo video or google video and you tube and search for grow dvds you can learn alot of the basics from those too.Quote:
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As far as hydro vs. soil I can't comment since i've only done soil but I'm planning on doing a side by side grow comparison in the future.
I've had shitty pot grown hydroponically and shitty pot grown in soil. I've had great pot grown hydroponically and great pot grown in soil. The best pot I've ever had was some White Rhino I grew myself, in soil, which I began flushing about two weeks prior to harvest. I brought some of my WR nugs to Bonnaroo this year. While I was there, I had all KINDS of people want to trade some of their hydro-grown stuff for my WR nugs, and since I had an abundance, I traded a lot of it, just to get a variety of other stuff to sample. Everybody I traded with was just amazed at how good that WR was (and is, heh), and asked how it was grown, and many seemed surprised that it was grown in soil.
I'm sure my yields do not compare to hydro yields. If I were selling anything, that'd be a big issue, probably a huge overriding issue, and I would go hydro. But since I am a self-supplier only, yield becomes irrelevant to me as long as my yield is greater than what I consume, and achieving that is no problem.
I'm just wondering if you can grow the same quality pot in soil as you can hydroponically, or is the hydro is always gonna come out better?
Suckie dirt weed will be suckie dirt weed if you grow it in dirt or hydro.
White Widow will be White Widow in dirt or hydro.
Blueberry will be Blueberry in dirt or hydro.
Get it? It doesn't matter. Potentcy is in genetics. Taste is in genetics and nutrients.
Of course hydro has many advantages over dirt. Bigger, faster, healthier-looking overall, and of course the biggie: higher yield, sometimes double. It's also easier to take out the chemical taste when growing in hydro.
Dirt also has its advantages.
I guess that's why we have people doing both.