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.