Soil is slower.... how much slower? I don't know.
I can tell you aeroponics is the the most dangerous and unforgiving. Soil is more nature's way and it takes a little longer. In aeroponics you can look at your garden before you go to bed and see everything is just fine, and the following morning you could walk in there and its pretty well all dead. A pump didn't work or an electrical connection didn't work. Maybe the reservoir had a leak, and it drained out. In any case its dead. Start over, and you don't collect $200. In soil, if you go to bed one night and everything is great, and 3 days later you look in again, you might say, hmm, maybe it needs a bit of water...... I'm somewhere in between. I grow with coco coir. Its almost like soil, only I am in charge of any nutrients they need. Very simple, little can go wrong.

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