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Soil alone is great, if you can manage 300 gallon pots.
MJ (and most modern cash crops) can't be grown successfully indoors in pure unadulterated soil in 5 or 10 gallon pots, or any manageable sized pot for that matter. They need supplemental fertilizers.
So halfway through your soil grow, you're going to have to start adding nutes. As the plant utilizes nutes, pH gradually becomes an issue.
What most people consider indoor soil growing is actually fertigation, a method of media culture hydroponics where soil acts as the media to hold and support the roots, while supplemental nutrients are supplying the plant's food. So if you're growing in soil and adding fertilizer to your water, you are already practicing a form of hydroponics.
In true soil culture, the soil itself supplies all the nutrients to the plants. This is not the case for most indoor MJ growers.
Here's my point... If you are adding nutes and monitoring pH anyway, why not just do soilless or hydro from the start?
The only way I would grow MJ in soil is if I was growing outdoors in a raised bed, cover cropped and sheet composted each year. Unfortunately this is not feasible in my backyard.
MJ (and most modern cash crops) can't be grown successfully indoors in pure unadulterated soil in 5 or 10 gallon pots, or any manageable sized pot for that matter. They need supplemental fertilizers.
So halfway through your soil grow, you're going to have to start adding nutes. As the plant utilizes nutes, pH gradually becomes an issue.
What most people consider indoor soil growing is actually fertigation, a method of media culture hydroponics where soil acts as the media to hold and support the roots, while supplemental nutrients are supplying the plant's food. So if you're growing in soil and adding fertilizer to your water, you are already practicing a form of hydroponics.
In true soil culture, the soil itself supplies all the nutrients to the plants. This is not the case for most indoor MJ growers.
Here's my point... If you are adding nutes and monitoring pH anyway, why not just do soilless or hydro from the start?
The only way I would grow MJ in soil is if I was growing outdoors in a raised bed, cover cropped and sheet composted each year. Unfortunately this is not feasible in my backyard.
