Why do people grow in soil?

Corso312

Corso312

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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..
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I know a couple people like that as well, I have a hard time telling but I smoke cigs so maybe not a real sensitive pallet .
 
dirtsurfr

dirtsurfr

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I figure if theres a Best way to grow weed I'll find it here.
Still looking and doing the old school ways it's still the best way to grow.
 
sgt john

sgt john

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bigv1976 said:
I started growing in DWC a few grows ago and I find myself why everyone doesn't. I feel bad when I see a thread like "How do they look at 4 weeks?" and I open the thread and see these little plants and I cant even comment because my honest comment would have to be "They look like they are about 1/4 of the size they should be. I waited sooo long to try hydro because of all the nightmare stories but it is awesome and I just wanna pass the word.
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Have any pics to go with your grow?
 
Total Head

Total Head

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from seed to harvest i don't do anything but pour water on my plants when they look dry. i plant the seed in bagged soil, and plant into my own mix a week before flower. there's no ppms to fuss with, no bottles of nutes to buy*, no measuring, no water to change, no loud pumps, just soil and plants. i don't grow them, they grow themselves.

i can fill a 3 gallon pot over 20 times (20 plants) for about 80 bucks, with enough amendments left over to fill 20 more with just an additional $30 investment. that's 40 plants for around a hundred bucks, or about $2.75 per plant on medium and food. i use ordinary tap water and it goes from the faucet right to the plant. it is also free of salt based synthetic ferts, not because i'm anti-synthetics, but because i find that i can be even lazier with my growing without having to treat salt buildup issues.

*i do have a bottle of fish fertilizer (5-1-1) that i occasionally use to prevent yellowing on unfamiliar strains that turn out to be particularly N-hungry in flower. it's preferable to overshooting the available N in my mix.

hydro may generally grow bigger plants faster than soil might, but if someone's soil plant is 1/4th the size of a similar hydro plant, whoever grew it fucked it up. hydro is not going to get the same plant 4x bigger than if vegged for the same time in an adequately sized pot of soil by someone who knows what they're doing.
 
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dvs1038

dvs1038

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Have to agree with The Head, my 1st grow I did outdoors with no nutes only what I had mixed up into the soil in before I planted which was worm castings, dolomite lime, and vermiculite, and I ended up with 2 plants each almost 6ft one was about 8oz dried and the other was like just under 6oz, it did take about 5 months from clone to harvest, but it was worth the weight(pun intended).
 
superstoner1

superstoner1

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i agree completely. i almost started a thread asking the same question. all these help threads with poor, abused little girls in soil. probably as many of those as ones asking what the yield will be or when will these be ready.:lol:
 
charface

charface

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Soil was the cheapest fastest way to get started. I`m happy with my quality and with the correct strain
I can get very acceptable yeild. I`m not a fan of worrying about bugs coming with soil but everything
has its pros and cons. Plus the hydro setup is a little scary looking to me. Someday I might try,
not in the near future though as I`m really learning about soil and my ultimate goal is to master that. lol
I do get bored easily once I understand something so ya never know. Honestly one thing that scares me is the moisture
you guys must have to void from your air. But maybe that is not a huge deal. I hate how muggy it gets in my room after
watering.
 
obijohn

obijohn

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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
 
thegersman

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My two cents...for personal use only, soil is easy...I mean how much do I really need...for little 'ol me....;-)
 
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WIGGIM

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I use a ebb & flow system to grow mine and I change water every monday, I have left town for 6 days and never had a problem, I like ebb & flow for its simplicity and ease of use, and I have never tried soil for a grow
 
Kaendar

Kaendar

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I think the winning argument is this one is that soil is how it naturally is. Nature intended it to grow in an earthy medium.
 
KushXOJ

KushXOJ

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Now let's see some pics of your hydro bud ...

I guarantee someone will be able to outshine your hydro bud with some good old fasioned organics
 
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xKuroiTaimax

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It's simple and natural... how my parents always did it. When I first came to this site the convoluted methods and artificial additions confused the hell out of me.

I'm in no position to argue about results though. It's just all I know.
 
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