DaddyDbudz
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I am new to the growing game and I am currently using soil. I'm just over 2 weeks into my first I already wanna try hydroponics instead if there's anybody who has done both, which do you prefer? Differ and y.
Pretty much nailed it on the head, except after a little experience I think DTW in buffered peat can be as easy, if not easier than soil.I've done soil(i sucked at it) DWC (fucking rocked, but ran myself ragged) and am currently in coco and doing well. DWC is absolutely unforgiving. Even a day with your Ph out of whack will effect if not kill your plants.
I'd agree with Hugo couple grows in soil (if it works for you) to learn the basics then step up. Here's a good analogy
Soil=the family sedan. Solid, steady, slow.
Coco& peat mixes = sports car. Faster, requires more attention, less forgiving than soil but repairable.
Soil less and aquaponics= a dragster. Fastest, highest performance, highest maintenance, and when it goes bad, its disastrous
That's what I finally settled on. I collected rainwater and ran everything on 3 part fertilizer with 1/4 sprayers last season. All the garden veggies, herbs and the devil's lettuce loved it....except for the tomatoes, the N was a bit high.Done all styles of growing. Promix in pots the way to go for me. No room for error in hydro.
Soil for outdoors not indoorSoil and organics for the win the why its simple in my opinion it gives the best tasting bud with coco being a close second also its easy and you got the buffering factor vs hydro so even as a noob if you do make mistakes its more forgiving it all comes down to personal preferences i guess and alot of folk on here will probably disagree with me to each to there own what you like and whatever works for you go with that op just ime thats what i like and what i found works best for me
Agree to disagree it might be better outdoors that i will agree but it works fine inside tooSoil for outdoors not indoor
I agree if you wanna go hydro eventually then thats up to folk themselves for beginners especially dirts just easierDoing hydro is a real pain, when working with multiple reservoirs it becomes very time consuming. Hydro also cost alot of money, The nuets tend to cost more, the set up has more maintenance and unless you have a lot of money to sink into like a nice floraflex system with automatic dosers its to much work for small scale. Not saying people dont have success because its a very good way to grow it just is a entire can of worms you dont need to open yet.
Soil is the way to go for first timers get you some Promix hp and some gaia green plenty of information on this system very user friendly and cost efficient great yeilds. you also dont need a bunch of equipment just some pots and trays.
If u like more chance of bugs roaming that's ur choiceAgree to disagree it might be better outdoors that i will agree but it works fine inside too
Thats part of it tho not all bugs are bad in all my years of growing in dirt worst ive had to deal with mostly is odd fungas gnat its annoying but manageable ive never had it real bad maybe i been luckyIf u like more chance of bugs roaming that's ur choice