SOIL vs HYDRO

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datpiff

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hydro all the way! its clean all u require is rockwool and some rocks and water, your plants grow bigger and finish faster. When you flush you're really flushing everything, has a better final look.

Soil in the other hand is very dusty and dirty watering a room full of plants is no easy task you will spill water everywhere even with a wand and water the lower buds etc... honestly I just dont want dirt in my house!
 
UncleBuck

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doc111 said:
How do you know that you know more than this person?
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doc raises a serious epistemological question here, japan.

also, no one cares how much you may know when you act like a dick.

chill out and realize that not everyone has hempy (a hybrid/passive hydro system) in mind when they think of hydro.

hempy is next on my list to try out, btw.
 
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Japanfreak

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UncleBuck said:
doc raises a serious epistemological question here, japan.

also, no one cares how much you may know when you act like a dick.

chill out and realize that not everyone has hempy (a hybrid/passive hydro system) in mind when they think of hydro.

hempy is next on my list to try out, btw.
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Of course he does but as they say, I'm walking here. Something has to be done because the E-parrots are screwing people over. I don't mind being known a dick the world over if people realize that growing is growing. "I've never done hydro but soil is more forgiving.......cawk........polly wants a cracker" Imagine a world where people actually spoke from a position of experience. Just imagine it for a sec.
 
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Japanfreak said:
Of course he does but as they say, I'm walking here. Something has to be done because the E-parrots are screwing people over. I don't mind being known a dick the world over if people realize that growing is growing. "I've never done hydro but soil is more forgiving.......cawk........polly wants a cracker" Imagine a world where people actually spoke from a position of experience. Just imagine it for a sec.
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well, as long as you don't mind being known as a dick.

i would think a better approach would be just simple education and display of results would be sufficient of you wanted to sell people on passive hydro, aka hempies.

it seemed like a lot of argument arose out of the fact that people figured you had an active hydro, which is vulnerable to certain failures, rather than passive hydro, which might as well be soil as far as maintenance and vulnerability to failure is concerned.
 
dannyboy602

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Soil is much more forgiving. I'm a horticulturist\ gardener. Did a couple grows indoors. Always bio. Professional growers will almost always tell you hydro is better. Professional smokers will always tell you soil shit grown in soil taste much better.
 
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UncleBuck said:
i would think a better approach would be just simple education and display of results would be sufficient of you wanted to sell people on passive hydro, aka hempies.
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Sell them? Fuck no, I like all styles of growing. Do what you want, how you grow should be about the person and the way they want to grow, what suits their needs. Soil or hydro it doesn't matter, you can accomplish the same results with both. I'm moving soon and thinking and maybe doing a bio-bucket setup with a nice water fall because I find the sound very relaxing. High with a water fall in your room is super cool. It's more complicated than an hempy bucket, most expensive to built, a few hundred bucks but the roots are in water like dwc so if the power goes out for a day there's no loss of crop. It's not about selling systems on people or soil or hydro. They are all awesome.
 
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Japanfreak said:
It's not about selling systems on people or soil or hydro. They are all awesome.
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i'm really looking forward to this hempy grow. i harvest in a few days and have a bag of soil leftover for the next batch, but not enough for all so i will be just using perlite and modifying my buckets to match a hempy style for the rest. it should be nice to do a side by side comparison i have seen some great hempy grows here and have seen my clones develop excellent roots in perlite only, so am excited to see what happens.
 
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Japanfreak

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dannyboy602 said:
Soil is much more forgiving. I'm a horticulturist\ gardener.
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In what way is it more forgiving?


If people really want to talk about soil being better than they've got to break down even further. Seems to me that a lot of people who use soil are killing their soil with chemicals and just growing hydro anyway. A decade ago I don't think that hydro had a chance in hell to approach the aroma of cannabis grown well organically, but the shit they have these days. Much more expensive and a pain in the ass compared to organics but then making teas doesn't seem to fun to me either.
 
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Japanfreak

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UncleBuck said:
i'm really looking forward to this hempy grow. i harvest in a few days and have a bag of soil leftover for the next batch, but not enough for all so i will be just using perlite and modifying my buckets to match a hempy style for the rest. it should be nice to do a side by side comparison i have seen some great hempy grows here and have seen my clones develop excellent roots in perlite only, so am excited to see what happens.
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It's practically idiot proof. If you got good tap you can't go wrong basically.
 
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Juicy Fruit

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Dunno but my first grow is going in soil, it's easy prep and all but I'v run into problems with various things and in order to fix them guess what, I need to add water with the right nutes she wanted and after that guess what, thats right over watering problems if I used my hydro system first (have one but using it next grow) I coulda just rez changed it and fixed it all in one go. So you decide
 
RawBudzski

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Dont need to break it down but for someone with less intelligence i can understand. Soil is more forgiving meaning a 1st time grower with 0 exp growing in soil would do better than a 1st timer in hydro with 0 knowledge. At least with soil you cant go wrong.. You can even play it SAFE and use PLAIN water. Try using PURE water a full hydro grow.. you wouldnt even get buds to smoke regardless of the potency
Japanfreak said:
In what way is it more forgiving?


If people really want to talk about soil being better than they've got to break down even further. Seems to me that a lot of people who use soil are killing their soil with chemicals and just growing hydro anyway. A decade ago I don't think that hydro had a chance in hell to approach the aroma of cannabis grown well organically, but the shit they have these days. Much more expensive and a pain in the ass compared to organics but then making teas doesn't seem to fun to me either.
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Japanfreak

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RawBudzski said:
Dont need to break it down but for someone with less intelligence i can understand. Soil is more forgiving meaning a 1st time grower with 0 exp growing in soil would do better than a 1st timer in hydro with 0 knowledge. At least with soil you cant go wrong.. You can even play it SAFE and use PLAIN water. Try using PURE water a full hydro grow.. you wouldnt even get buds to smoke regardless of the potency
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Yeah....we don't hear much about the guys who run into problems with trying just water......but we do sometimes. lol. Seriously.
 
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