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What does Hydroponics do for you???
- Thread starter Kuroth
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I've tried soil and hydro side by side. I just can't get the growth rate with soil that I get with hydro. Plus I use medium-less DWC, so I have no medium to clean or dispose of. HUGE plus right there.
Now don't get me wrong, a well dialed organic grow performs just as well, (I just can't seem to get it dialed like some folks!) but I just find hydro so much easier (at least the method I settled on).
I downsized from a room to a cab, so I'm revisiting soil and for now I'm just working on mothers and cuts (something I never did before). I plan on building a deluxe flowering cab that will probably be hydro. Mothers will probably remain in soil.
Now don't get me wrong, a well dialed organic grow performs just as well, (I just can't seem to get it dialed like some folks!) but I just find hydro so much easier (at least the method I settled on).
I downsized from a room to a cab, so I'm revisiting soil and for now I'm just working on mothers and cuts (something I never did before). I plan on building a deluxe flowering cab that will probably be hydro. Mothers will probably remain in soil.
no meters.no air pumps,no medium to toss,no ph adjusting. better tasting erb. cheaper cost of ferts. no water chiller,aaah the list goes on . i tried every hydro out there. organic soil rules.
AladdinSane
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I look at things from a different angle. For instance, if I'm growing some tomato and pepper for my wife's use making meals, I put in a garden. If I'm growing some tomato for WalMart, Albertsons, Winn Dixie, and Food Lion, I put in a hydro system.
There's things that justify complicated techniques, such as delivering as much output per square foot as can be managed. Or, there's just the personal enjoyment that some find in having a complicated system with dozens of considerations like pump efficiency, unclogged sprayers, piping systems, aeration, pH measuring and adjusting, etc. Some folks just plain like that, which is good.
Then there's folks who have other hobbies, and just grow pot because it's safer and cheaper and better than buying it from a dealer. We don't want any complexity, we already have something to do with our spare time, we just want to grow some buds.
That's where dirt comes in. There's really nothing easier or simpler than filling twenty one-gallon pots, tossing a tablespoon or two of Dynamite plant food into them, sticking a seed in, and watering for eight weeks until you harvest. No pH, no flush, no muss, no hassle.
Spent dirt goes into the flower beds, around the trees, and into the garden or compost pile. Since you're not using forty pounds of vermiculite/perlite/clay balls etc. it looks perfectly normal wherever you amend with it.
In conclusion, for me hydroponics does nothing but make me grit my teeth at the very thought
There's things that justify complicated techniques, such as delivering as much output per square foot as can be managed. Or, there's just the personal enjoyment that some find in having a complicated system with dozens of considerations like pump efficiency, unclogged sprayers, piping systems, aeration, pH measuring and adjusting, etc. Some folks just plain like that, which is good.
Then there's folks who have other hobbies, and just grow pot because it's safer and cheaper and better than buying it from a dealer. We don't want any complexity, we already have something to do with our spare time, we just want to grow some buds.
That's where dirt comes in. There's really nothing easier or simpler than filling twenty one-gallon pots, tossing a tablespoon or two of Dynamite plant food into them, sticking a seed in, and watering for eight weeks until you harvest. No pH, no flush, no muss, no hassle.
Spent dirt goes into the flower beds, around the trees, and into the garden or compost pile. Since you're not using forty pounds of vermiculite/perlite/clay balls etc. it looks perfectly normal wherever you amend with it.
In conclusion, for me hydroponics does nothing but make me grit my teeth at the very thought
recycle soil if organic . it just gets better IMHO
