Soil for a biggener is just as hard, uve been doing it for a while just like any one growin dro for a while has no problem. you can experience all the same problems from soil to hydro and i belive that it is easier to correct those in hydro. If you kill off a crop because of nutes your a moron, and right there he misread the instructions. And the point is that if you do what your supposed to do hydro is very easy. Check ph and ppm,takes 1 min. Change res every 2 weeks, takes 5min. read a friggen book its so easy. I experence some nute problems my first time around but i still had killer bud. My pump broke one day and they survived. If your plants die over night in hydro u did something seriously wrong. DOnt drown the roots. the only difference between soil and hydro is u use water instead of soil. there really is no difference. the plant consumption is just different. i have never killed a plant in hydro..... honestly if you are informed on hydro u will be successful, ppl just think there is so much more to it becuase its different and involves mechanics. When u germinate your seeds and want to gro hydro, then come on here asking what to do next.... your fucked, and what do you expect ppl to just give you answers, there are in depth dvds on how to grow dro like growing with mr green is really good, watch one and u will see how easy it is. So many books on it, not even related to marijuana.