For $50.00 you get all the shit you need for the basics.. Im sure it has it limitations, Im sure you would still have to buy more nutes and other shit, but if I could get 4oz out of HYDRo vs 1.5 oz out of a plant, then its make sense.. But I dont know if those #'s are right.. But I do hear HYDRO yields more than dirt, I may get one of those as soon as I know I have some females clones, go head to head against dirt see what happens, clones from the same mother.. that would be a good log..