Why do people grow in soil?

colonuggs · Jun 16, 2012

To me if you want to grow commercially.... hydro is the way to roll if... you want weight

my main reason i grow in soil (really soilless) is taste .....the taste of my herb in a volcano vaporizer grown in sunshine#4 is fantastic.

I can tell you anytime and everytime a piece of hydro grown weed went into my vape it tasted funky I dont care how long it was flushed.

shit as far as yeild is concerned I get 6 oz from 2 gallon potters with a 6-7 week veg

I get huge buds in soil..

This was 4 oz plant in a 6 quart potter

a mongo frog · Jun 16, 2012

i thought sunshine#4 is hydro. i think it is.

Chief Walkin Eagle · Jun 16, 2012

I was thinking hydro for my first grow but then I heard about the taste and potency of naturally grown weed. Im starting my first guerilla grow as soon as I get my hands on a huge framed hiking bag and some soil. Is Ph really that important? I work part time with my friend and her dads landscaping company and they appear to have dark, rich topsoil, but no one knows the Ph of it. I'll barely have enough money to buy a hiking bag so I cant buy a Ph meter.

I dont know if I can trust the soil either, because my friend has a plant in 50/50 mix of soil and sand and its tiny and yellowish... He was forced to rip it out when it was a couple weeks old though when his girlfriend found it, he put it back in when she was gone.

UncleBuck · Jun 16, 2012

racerboy71 said:
i have a super pot snob friend who lives down in florida, and every time she smokes some bud that has been grown hydro, she can spot it a mile away.. i'm not the expert she is, or maybe i just haven't smoked as much hydro as she has, but she can say she can easily taste the difference between a soil grow and one that was grown in hydroponics..

this right here.

when i was down in LA for passover, my bro in law's bro shared with me and my wife some bud from the dispensary. looked awesome, but tasted off.

had to smoke some of my organic, soil-grown bud just to get that nasty taste out of my mouth.

i've never tasted hydroponically grown bud that does not upset my pallet.

Shannon Alexander · Jun 17, 2012

Because volcanic soil is fucking beastly...

DST · Jun 17, 2012

Q:Why do people grow in soil?

I thought people grew on soil, and plants grew in it.......mmmmn.

This question must have been asked many times and it's just the same old debate. And many people have answered it here, and I am sure there will be a gazzillion more posts about it in the future. Each to their own, embrace differences in life!!!

Peace, DST

Grampa · Jun 17, 2012

I grow in soil because I like dirt. It makes me feel grounded. Besides that, its the original way to grow in nature. Dirt, water, sunshine - These are some of my favorite things.

brandon727272 · Jun 17, 2012

I grow in soil because I grow outdoors and it's much easier and natural. I literally check on my plants every few days and just water them, wont' have to feed anything except molasses probably

Even if I could grow some indoor I feel like I would just want to do a perpetual scrog/mainlined super soil grow back crossing my own strain XD

bigv1976 · Jun 17, 2012

colonuggs said:
To me if you want to grow commercially.... hydro is the way to roll if... you want weight

my main reason i grow in soil (really soilless) is taste .....the taste of my herb in a volcano vaporizer grown in sunshine#4 is fantastic.

I can tell you anytime and everytime a piece of hydro grown weed went into my vape it tasted funky I dont care how long it was flushed.

shit as far as yeild is concerned I get 6 oz from 2 gallon potters with a 6-7 week veg

I get huge buds in soil.. This was 4 oz plant in a 6 quart potter

I think you are making up stories from something you heard here. I have smoked plenty of each and have never known there to be a difference.

jela10 · Jun 17, 2012

Honestly, some people live where the temperatures are too hot to do hydro without expensive chillers keeping the water temps acceptable....I jumped on the hydro wagon in August last year and found that explosive growth I wanted.....too bad algae and pythium exploded with growth too......break down...sanitize.....break down....sanitize again, transplanted to soil and finished rather nicely. I have switched to coco hempy buckets and wow....I got that explosive growth back w/o the temperature/root issues. Now I have the problem that some strains grow too damn big for my space. I'm actually planning soil for a Dutch Passion Blueberry grow just to keep the size down and we all know how finicky that strain can be on this forum.

cannabineer · Jun 17, 2012

a mongo frog said:
i thought sunshine#4 is hydro. i think it is.

Extra super technical moment: it's the hybrid form called "soilless". cn

colonuggs · Jun 17, 2012

a mongo frog said:
i thought sunshine#4 is hydro. i think it is.

hydro is water in direct contact with the roots no filtering....hence the funky taste in my volcano

sunshine # 4 is peatmoss based with perlite and other shit...it provides a buffer... thats why the taste is different

All Sunshine & Promix is a soillless medium....its not hydro...

If it was hydro I wouldnt need potters or transplant every 2 weeks into bigger ones or have to water every 2-3 days

cannabineer said:
Extra super technical moment: it's the hybrid form called "soilless". cn

CORRECT

Heres a 2 gallon potter with a 12 ozer plant

Kalyx · Jun 25, 2012

It sure is cheaper to grow in soil. Not everyone can afford hydro systems and gallons of nutrient! Plus you waste tons of water dumping reservoirs every 1-3 weeks!

jamboss · Jun 25, 2012

I do because I'm a guerilla.

WattSaver · Jun 25, 2012

I've actually blended the 2 styles, I now grow soilponics only.....

dirtsurfr · Jun 25, 2012

I do for the poundage you silly boy!!!!

skunkd0c · Jun 25, 2012

obijohn said:
People grow in soil because that's how nature intended it to be. Granted, I've seen great rresults using hydro, and even considered trying it. But even the folks in local hydro shops told me its very difficult to just jump into and requires a lot more maintenance than growing in soil

totally incorrect, don't listen to the guy at the hydro store, for the most part these guys are all chumps and talk shit
i could teach you in about 30 mins to 1 hour to grow great weed hydroponically .. depending on your own level of attainment of course

peace

skunkd0c · Jun 25, 2012

Kalyx said:
It sure is cheaper to grow in soil. Not everyone can afford hydro systems and gallons of nutrient! Plus you waste tons of water dumping reservoirs every 1-3 weeks!

depends on the system, hydro can be very cheap, large systems can be built cheaply , dumping reservoirs is unnecessary

a small hydo system can be built for £20 or less , you can buy one for £40
a larger system 50 plants or more £200 or less .. the cost of hydroponics and nutrients are much less than electricity or a few packs of fancy seeds

peace

purklize · Jun 25, 2012

DWC is fantastic. The plants are healthier, they grow much faster, the nugs are densier, stinkier, and more potent with better flavor, overall better quality for sure... and the system is much more forgiving than it would appear. I've had the water sit at 75F for months, if you change the buckets weekly and use a big air pump it's fine. I even accidentally left the pump off for 12 hours once with a huge late flowering plant and it was unaffected. (I was sweating bullets waiting for the lights to come on, that's for sure!)

It sure is cheaper to grow in soil. Not everyone can afford hydro systems and gallons of nutrient! Plus you waste tons of water dumping reservoirs every 1-3 weeks!

It costs me only a couple dollars an ounce to produce with my hydroponic nutrients (Botanicare), and I actually use LESS water than I did growing in soil. You don't have to contend with as much evaporation anymore, and you don't have to flush accumulated salts out every few weeks.

RyanTheRhino · Jun 25, 2012

cannabineer said:
To give the question an honest answer, i tried DWC last fall, and it failed. I rescued my dying sprouts into soil and brought them to harvest. I will try hydro soon again, but not DWC. cn

for DWC a good air pump and stones are much more important the the nutes. Its worth spend more on a good air pump then top of the line nutes, plus pumps barley use any electricity. I think ebb & flow is the best

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