I love soil; it's such a stressfree and relaxing way to grow. I haven't had to use any ph meters or ppm meters, no nute burns, just smooth sailing with soil. Get your nutes wrong with hydro and you can lose an entire crop in no time.

In fact, I have a friend trying hydro now, and he's fried two crops in a row. While he's still struggling to get *anything* he can smoke, I am basking in ounce after ounce of kickass bud that I pull with regularity out of soil. I tried to tell him to at least try soil, but he was adamant that he could produce so much more yield with hydro. Total score for this year: me 41 ounces, him 0 ounces. And I still have another crop to harvest this year! It's not like he's stupid either, just kinda unlucky. He had a pump break, killed a crop. Then he overdid some flowering nutes that he hadn't used before, killed that crop too. But the stuff that has killed his crops is exactly the stuff that you don't have to worry about NEARLY as much (if at all) with soil.

For those who make growing/selling a business, sure, it probably behooves you to use hydro or aero, and devote yourself to what is basically your profession. For those who just want to kick back and smoke whenever they want, and don't care about making money off it, and don't want to have to monitor things closely, soil is awesome.