go hydro! dont mess around with soil, hydro is dead easy. We set up a small cupboard for a mate of mine the other month, it was simply two identical tubs - one at the bottom of cupboard for res, one sitting in a shelf for the plants. The top one had heaps of holes drilled in bottom so the water flows back to res. All we had to do was rig up a simple drip line on a pump and fill the top tub with rockwool slab. No drain fittings or tub outlets.
Dead easy! My mate swore he was too dumb for hydro and didnt want to try cos he was afraid of fucking it up. 11 weeks later he pulled over 11 oz for his first grow (600w hps in only 90cmx45cm x cupboard). All he had to do was pH every 1 or 2 days and dump res and add water plus canna A+B every 2 weeks at canna's ml/L instructions - no EC stick needed.
Also using rockwool you get time to notice a pump malfunction before it dries out, somewhat like soil.
Many people think hydro is tricky at first, but really if you were growing WELL in soil it would be more of a fuck around then in hydro as you would still be adjusting soil pH's and shit and not really getting everything spot on.
With hydro you can do a really simple set up with just A+B nutes (maybe rizo and cannazym (maybe maybe pK)), as long as ventilation + temp is adequate and you pH res, you are GUARANTEED decent results!
