Around the CHicagoland area where I live, during winter months it is all hydroponic indoor and during the spring-summer it all becomes bomb ass outdoor. I have noticed that buying half ounces of dro during winter always look short, but there really really fucking potent and always leave me with a smile on my face. Poorly grown hydro is the only thing to be feared, Ive had nuggets that you could literally taste the chemcials in, but knowlegably grown hydro is no less satisfying than organic. Drying, curing, lighting, airflow, temperature, all these things are variables in cannabis growth. If someone had an organic plant grown under 40w of fluorescent (probably wouldnt even bud) and compared it to a 400w HPS grown hydro, obviously the hydro would be the choice nugget.