Best Hydro system?

Hi, I am very uneducated about growing but was wondering what the best hydroponic system on the market is? Also, is there any tutorials on here on how to get it started for a newb? I would rather grow hydroponic than soil because I heard it's easier.

Look into water farms, capable of growing tree's. Heath Robinson; he grew 2 plants in single water farms each and yielded 74 oz's, using 2 600w hps lights. and it was so easy to grow using the farms, i'd consider looking into them.

otherwise i find flood & drain system easiest to start with.

Despite what everyone is going to say, as a lot will try and tell you hydro is hard work and its shit doesn't work for first growers etc, i'd like to say make your own decision. Are you going to be there to water it every second day or are yu like me and like to change water just once a week. i personally like waiting a week and seeing the massive improvements that are made on a weekly basis rather then the tiny growth done in a few days. (doesn't hurt to have a look every few days to make sure all is going good, and if you know what you're doing, is most of the time)

and the ones that tell you that hydro is easier to fuck up in, are usually the one's that didn't research themselves and fucked up themselves.

hydroponics is a piece of cake along as you do sufficient research.. fuck my hydro setup cost me $40 and in turn i'm looking at yielding at least 4 oz's, nothing impressive but for a $40 setup and a first grow i couldn't be happier.

Actually for a new grower soil is a lit easier. Soil grows tend to be more stable and you your plants won't be as heavily affected by the errors in nutrients or watering that all new growers make. Hydroponic systems are actually a lot more work. They have more wrking parts to maintain and if one thing goes wrong your whole system could be down. Plus with hydro you are basically feeding the nutrients right to the roots so one mix up and you can really mess your plants up.

The bigger your res the longer you can go between topping up, pH checking, ppm adjusting, and res changing
So IMO bigger res=better system

I would be the type of person to check it carefully everyday. I was just wondering if there was a tutorial that went to the extent of what lights to buy, what size pots to buy, where to buy them ect. I was looking for a real specific beginners tutorial. I saw one by Widow Maker or something, it looked pretty good but I was looking for something even easier to read than that. I'm looking to start off real small just to experiment a little.

trevor62491 said:

I would be the type of person to check it carefully everyday. I was just wondering if there was a tutorial that went to the extent of what lights to buy, what size pots to buy, where to buy them ect. I was looking for a real specific beginners tutorial. I saw one by Widow Maker or something, it looked pretty good but I was looking for something even easier to read than that. I'm looking to start off real small just to experiment a little.

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Ok my apologies then. that still doesn't mean hydro is not for you, checking it every daily could benefit the use of hydro, i just got bored of seeing the same plant daily, now i check it weekly and it's like a whole new plant! but no means do i find growing boring, soil i probably would.

onto topic, no single guide is going to cover everything you want to know, you need to research and find out what you need to know. ask questions, it's one of the best ways of learning. so many factors come into place when deciding what light to use or what size pot to use, this is why you need to do your own research start with the size of your grow room for instance. but i'm sure there's a lot of guides that'll give you good information, just not EVERYTHING you need to know.

DWC is probably the easiest starter for hydroponics that you can find. My first time using hydro was a non transparent 60L tote ($8.00) an air pump, lines and air stone ($25.00). it is really easy to maintain and build and there is an abundance of resources on google.

ok total noob question here.... are the yields really that much better w/ hydro to make it worth all the extra work?

they are supposed to grow faster in hydro but you would have to do side by side tests to prove it with each strain, and there are different kinds of hydro, rockwool, hydroton , I have mixed in shredded redwood and part sand that even seemed to work. you can control the irrigation when and how long , if you make a flood and drain system even out of rubbermaid tubs, with a fountain pump+1/2 inch hose, air stone, air pump- you can put soil pots in the upper tub and just use a timer or plug the water pump in to water the upper tray. its a soil /hydro system that unlike dwc allows you to let the plants dry out when you need them to. still gotta change water every week , might as well water by hand.

DWC is great !! Its really easy to put together, it works so so well, and Yes! they grow alot faster than soil grown plants! However sometimes 'some' quality can be lost (usually by noobs) but after you have a couple of Grow's under your belt.. you will regain the quality & potency by using better nuits and using different flushing & drying techniques I doubt I'll ever stray from DWC - STELTHY

Its not that hydroponics will yield more (it can), its less water used overall and your plants are in a controlled environment. Because they are in a controlled environment you dictate the types of nutrients and ratio they eat at different times. Maintenance is a few minutes a day reading ph and ppm. I do everything hydro because it is easy to build, fun to learn and if something goes wrong i can test, check my log and find out what went wrong (if anything) fairly quickly. But if you find a way that yields lots on a certain strain it is alot easier to repeat the process.