holes again? or till it all?

I live up in norcal and there's lots of other growers around here that would rather till an area than dig holes.

I have 12 1.5' wide 2.5-3' deep holes from last years grow. a buddy of mine told me to just till it all, add a bunch of stuff to it to get it good.

but I was just wondering if others more experienced with this could give me an opinion on this.

up here it's hardpan clay for soil. I had to work so hard to dig the holes I have, this clay is so compressed.

so I'm basically wondering if I should keep using holes or not. my friend argued that there is grass and other weeds leeching from the plants, but I considered cannabis a dominant plant and wouldn't be leached from easily?

either way, I'm mainly wondering if I should do holes again, or if I sh ould till.

and if I should till, some detailed information on what I should do with hardpan clay would be great.

hey poplars, your thread caught my eye cause I've been thinking of tilling this year. But if you already have the holes dug I wouldn't abandon them. I think tilling would be the way to go on a new location though. Break up all the sod and roots. Some of those tree roots go forever.
The drawbacks I see is the noise and needing more amendments if you are tilling a larger spot than you normally plant in.
Around here I have lots of red clay that needs lots of peat and perlite to areate it.

yeah I"m gonna just stick with holes this year. just a lot easier imo.

Well Holes are good, but if your doing more plants over a larger area then I dont see why you wouldn't use a tiller, its easier and pretty much does that same thing.

just use you holes available bro why not there already there... fill them with a good airey soilmis and put some sk clones out there!!!!

hah chitown there are gonna be atleast 6 SK plants out there , I may do more, it depends. I really want to have a nice balance of bud this year.

and I"m gonna be growing em so big that I"m gonna get pounds per plant .

so yeah I'm gonna just stick with holes this year, due to the script laws we're stuck with 12 plants. so I"m just gonna stick with the huge holes I already have dug, the heavy indica will go crazy with the space I already have

yeah, even if I till I'd go in there and dig out a good hole where each plant will be. Most tillers only get down 6" to 8" or so. Those big girls need more than that, esp with that clay underneath.