Soil, Aeroponics, Hydroponics?

I wanna grow quality with ease. Which should I choose?

soil is easiest less things can go wrong and still gives quality depending on if you do everything right. Aeroponics and hydro is a lot of maintenance and more expensive startup for the small increase in the potency/quality of nugs. most people start in soil and later they decide if they want to do hydro

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back on subject, aero is a form of hydro...but like monkey said soils usually easiest to start out with....but if u were inclined on trying a hydro id look into DWC (deep water culture) then move up from there because its one of the easiest forms of hydro to maintain.....

My first grow was aeroponic/hydroponic and I loved it. Everything's confusing at first but after a few hours of reading it was pretty simple.

If you want ease of use then soil is the way to go.

With soil there are no pumps that can fail like in hydro/aero. Also in hydro/aero any problem is faster to develop than in soil. Soil is much more forgiving for the novice grower.

SOil = quality/better taste imo/ and is low maintenance..... Hydro= Faster growth rates bigger yield.....higher maintenance/ higher start up costs.....I prefer soil...

My first grow was in hydroton ebb and flow and i love it, interesting and i havn't had to face any big problems yet

i'm too lazy to wanna be in the grow room all day. soil and me. perfect together.

I always liked the soil better than hydro . My first hydro I had the door off of my grow room and had to take everything out to get a dead mouse or small rat out from underneath behind everything that was stinking up the whole place I put my stuff in the living room on the floor just outside the door to the grow room and a friend came beating the piss out of my door shouting police open up . Scared the shit out of me and I busted up some of my plants trying to hide them . Then the fairly new pump went out on me next day . It just was a lot more work and I never could get it right exactly . I know some people who over the years have tried it and took right off with it but that was def not me .

Soil less mix, like Promix or Sunshine #4, etc. It's a sterile media so you don't have to be an organic wizard to feed the plant. With real soil you can easily over feed because of nutes already in the soil. Don't reuse the media till you get a few crops done and have learned a bit. It's prone to serious Ph swings after a few uses due to the lime being washed out. Once you learn a bit you'll figure out how much lime and perlite to add and you can reuse it almost indefinitely.
Feed with Gen Hydro 3part at about 70% of recommended dose. Give them plain water every third watering to stop toxic salts from building up. Simple and cheap.
Start them in beer cups and transplant to 2 gallon bags after 3-4 weeks.Veg another 3 weeks or so and flip the lights to 12/12.
At first, you need to learn how to grow the plant and not worry about how to operate a system. Any problems that pop up can easily be solved with help from the people here at RIU.
Follow this simple plan and you'll be swimmin in buds in no time.
Good luck,
Fred

learn the basics 1st and start with soil there is so much to learn about this that you dont want to dive into the more tecnical aspect of growing (hydro) just my 2cents

i don't get why everyone is saying hydro is so advanced and more maintenance. there just part of the majority that just say what others are saying and have probably never tried hydro for them selves.

Personally i find hydro so easy! it's as simple as setting an xbox up to a tv, i only ever have to go into my grow room once a week (tho i still like to chek it every second day) and my plants fuckin loves me for it.
once your setup is complete you don't need to worry about watering, lights or anything! and don't listen to the folk when they say it's hard to setup or it's expensive..

hell inbox me and i'll give you a run over on my diy hydro setup which cost like $30-40? (this doesnt include the lights etc which is needed no matter how you grow indoors). it runs perfectly havn't had a problem yet and my plant grows insanely fast.

have your own decision i've never tried soil and never will after seing how easy and simple it is to grow hydro..

ChoofyN said:

i don't get why everyone is saying hydro is so advanced and more maintenance. there just part of the majority that just say what others are saying and have probably never tried hydro for them selves.

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i have done both and while i do agree hydro is superior.....i still believe soil is easier and like ink said more forgiving.....but like stated its ur decision...
either way do a little research before hand

I have countless hydroponics and soil grows under my belt.......I prefer soil.......better taste smaller yield........I prefer quality (as far as taste) over quantity

jcdws602 said:

I have countless hydroponics and soil grows under my belt.......I prefer soil.......better taste smaller yield........I prefer quality (as far as taste) over quantity

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As far as taste goes as long as the last few weeks are just pure water there is no reasonable difference in taste between hydro and soil (i've bought many baggies bound to be growen in soil).. on the other hand you can taste the shit house growen in dirt.

ChoofyN said:

As far as taste goes as long as the last few weeks are just pure water there is no reasonable difference in taste between hydro and soil (i've bought many baggies bound to be growen in soil).. on the other hand you can taste the shit house growen in dirt.

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You think medium has no influence on taste??.....I grow both ways but my personal stash jar is full of my organic.. soil grown nugs.....

Some Pre 98 Bubba....soil grown...attachments below.......

same Bubba Kush hydroponically grown......top feed.....in hydroton......a bit frostier... yields better......but doesn't taste as good as the organic soil grown one....







Whiteberry.....hydroponically grown.....

Stinkbud.. for ease which is aero/nft. Simple to use, run and maintain. I used it for years with great success, then went to dwc buckets because I never run a lot of plants per harvest, I usually run different strains and I wanted to run perpetual harvests all which in buckets make it more work but allows more flexibility to fit my needs.

Anybody who thinks soil is easy hasn't carried 200 pounds of it up 3 flights of stairs only to go right around and carry it out again in 8 weeks. Oh right, that means I need 200 more pounds of dirt. The root aphids come free!