I agree both ways...The initial investment sucks but after that it's all nutes...Gotta spend the money on nutes for soil or coco anyways...

The more you watch your stuff the better it'll come out agreed, but in my first attempt at hydro We ran a ebb n flow table with no ph pen (just the drops) completely blind on the PPM's or E.C., due to not having a pen, and got far better results than I thought I would, for not having the right equip. and poor conditions in the room...

Cleaned out the res once a week gave new nutes and topped off once or twice a week with PH'd water and checked Ph every 1-3 days with no I'll effects no root rot or no obvious deficiencies...

I don't now if it was the nutes cuz We just ran a clear plastic tote w/ 6" net pots just sitting in it, and a 18 Gal rubbermaid res w/ a submers. pump, no air stones at all either. Some of the densest and sweetest tasting buds I've smoked in years..No taste of leftover nutes...I couldn't believe bud like that came outta my computer room...lol..

.But I'm giving a lot of credit to the nutes cuz just went into the whole grow blind... Can't wait to get it on and poppin again...I see big things for the future of my newly remodeled and still under construction grow space...Damn Somebody shut me up...can't stop typing...if yall were here right now I'd be " blah blah blah blah"...can't shut me up sometimes...sorry

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p.s. like Dai I like the fact of re-using the medium. No soil to buy for the next grow...If you think about it the plant gets no nutritional value from the soil alone, the soil just act's as a reservoir to hold the nute solution...I say cut out the middle man so the roots can use both Oxygen and H2o quicker and more efficiently...DAMN there I go again...

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