I think of it as the hydro growers are scientists and the organic growers are artists.
Firstly coco isn't really very environmentally sound. It has to be shipped in from god knows where. It is very expensive and I can't buy it locally, I have to have it shipped in. Then there is all that faff with PH, EC and PPM. Soil I can just mix it up and I am good to go, I can get 6 weeks of just watering them before I have to look at nutrients. Because my soil mix is fairly spot on I can get away with using a simple seaweed based tomato feed and Epsom Salts, it has everything thing I need and is super cheap. I also add a touch of Mycorrhizal compound when I pot them up from the small pots of potting compost I start them in.
That is where I am at the moment. I find it easy. At the moment I am just using a Liquid Seaweed tomato feed once flowering starts, super easy.
Yea, is a pain in the ass!
Why not just use compost during bloom? Easier than bottled, just apply a good heap on top of the soil, and water in.
Run no till. You only have to bring soil in once.
The catch all term soil. You North Americans have a funny way of using English. If you went into a shop in the UK and asked for soil, they would try and sell you Top Soil or Loam. What you call soil, isn't soil it is a blended compost. So you have used an off the shelf soil mix, or compost. So what your experiment has shown is you can get better results using coco and your chosen nutrient line, than you can with a proprietary blended compost. You have not proven that coco is better than all soils, like you have suggested.
agree!if just say amount. coco will win ! but it works hard . good soil can grow quick and strong
Interesting that it Varys strain to strain.
I grow in organic soil with organic liquid feeds. Can smoke a bud 3 days after coming off the plant and it won’t be harsh.
I’m tempted to try a coco solo with salt based feeds to see if there is any difference. But I’m more than happy with my results in soil so why bother?
The flavour of my weed is great, I have just compared it to some of the local street weed a friend has and the difference is like night and day. Mine smells and tastes fruity and very is very smooth. This street weed smelt of nothing.
Hydro grows pot that gets ya plenty stoned, but it's missing the essence that soil provides. Hydro grown bud rarely leaves a thick pungent flavor on the pallet like a funky soil bud does. Brix is another topic that's interesting to discuss when comparing hydro to soil. Hydro grown plants can not produce the high brix levels that are present in soil grown plants. I think this has a considerable impact on flavor and smoothness.You shouldn't get so emotional over someone else's observation described in someone else's garden about growing mediums. Something tells me you're that person most people avoid any time religion or politics comes up. Chillax homie. It's gonna be okay.
That no till sounds pretty dope. It still bends my mind sideways how those gardeners make it all work. It's quite impressive. And I like the idea of reusing the soil. I even heard guys that just cut the stalk at the base and replant without pulling the old root system. Apparently the plant utilizes those old root systems. I thought that was some dam cool shit.If you wanna grow big and fast in soil, use a sip. Run it no till. It's, so far, the best compromise I've found between organic soil grown, and hydro. Just my opinion though.
That's pretty dam cool. How long can you keep reusing the same soil?
I just had my first organic grow ever and i doubt ill ever go back. Landrace sativas grow much better. I was a flora series man for years but I dont miss that salt build up and coco was just one ph nightmare after another. definitely not for the lazy grower like me
If you're in a good sized raised bed, you could reuse the soil indefinitely as long as you keep cover crop going, top dressing, and mulching, and the soil quality gets better with every cycle, if you keep the soil fed and thriving with life. With an earthbox, a couple cycles and you would probably have to add new soil, but a bigger diy sip could probably run a lot more cycles.
I still use the flora series for dwc in another tent. Love the shit. I really like jacks 321 too though.
I just had to buckle down with the fact that i was growing landraces and theyre very touchy with syntetics. You give them too much of any nute and it can send them into a shit spiral that they never recover from. Flora works great with most mainstream strains though
