O, also...
Buck started this thread to be about Inda-Gro lights, not a debate over types of growing media.
i don't really want to see this thread drift into a discussion of soil vs other... but i just would like to reiterate that because you have a greater ability to micromanage in dwc, hydro, etc, that isn't always for the better. could you imagine trying to drive your car if you had an equivalent ability (and therefor required course of action) to make all of the monitoring and adjusting efforts that the car's computer does for you. imo, organic and (selectively) biologically diverse soil is like having a super computer acting as the brains of your car.
i also wanted to mention that root hairs are the easiest way for a plant to increase the surface area of it's root mass with the least energy expenditure.
healthy, vigorous plants that aren't concerned with spending that lil bit o energy to get bigger roots will do so.
here's one of my dwc clones that was put in on 7-3:
i have not changed the water in the res since i initially filled it; only topped it off a bit with my own special blend.
and here's a pic of one of my rapid rooter clones that was put in the plug on 6-26:
notice the root hairs? notice also, the much smaller root development? notice the adventitious roots on the top of the plug, and their root hairs?
maybe there's a big diff between what i put in my mix and what they put in those rooter plugs... idk.
but this is my first dwc effort, albeit just for cloning, but i'm getting tempted to take one full term in dwc just to see what i can do with that approach.
so, ya.. i can't say from experience that soil is easier or better or whatever than the alternatives. i concede that fact, but i still believe that soil-grown meds taste and smell better, hence my satisfaction with soil growing for my own meds.
if i opt to make a soil vs blah run of things, i'll start my own thread for it... until then, lets please keep this thread on the Inda-Gro topic.
oh, since i hadn't yet posted a pic of my current, humble veg area, here's one i just snapped:
just 2 200PARs.
well.. i'm outie for now... it's movie night!
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