RDWC or Soil?

Hello all.

I am currently growing in soil. This is my third grow (second actually because first one was very failed grow). I never went to hydroponic videos or topics before. Yesterday i saw how easy to grow RDWC on youtube. Just fill reservoir, give right PPM and keep water warm. Change water weekly. How easy it is.. or it's not?

I am planning to go for RDWC on next grow after harvesting this ones. But if it's so easy why there is peoples still growing in soil? It's not that much expensive setup. You have to check soil if it's dry yet or not, or test run off pH and many other things with soil. What i am seeing with RDWC is pretty easy.

What is your thoughts?

IMO - DWC produces more but requires more attention/work and isn't nearly as forgiving as soil.
First pic is dwc in 5gal buckets, second is soil in 10 gal pots.
Have fun

You want "easy"? Grow in coco and get a drip system.

because its the devils work growing in water hahah.but yea most people still think its super high tech stuff and dont want to try it.

keeping water warm is easy, keeping water cold is hard.

When I switched from soil to hydro back in 2009 I did lots of research and wanted a system that would be relatively “easy”.

I decided to do flood and drain with pots of hydroton in a flood tray and never looked back or wished I went with anything different. Typically I checked it and adjusted the water levels and ph every 2-3 days depending on how much they were eating at the time. By using a large enough reservoir (45ish gallons) I was able to leave the system un attended for a week one time and 9 days another time, and came back to happy healthy plants both times. In 10 years I only had one pump fail and the plants went without water for 24-36 hours with zeros issue.

I used clones that only vegged for about 2 weeks, so I could fit about 4 per sq/ft and they averaged around 20g each dry depending on genetics, some strains yielded in the 30g range.