Hydro VS Soil

[The Hemp Goddess]

I have good luck (or just lots of experience) with hydro also. I can comfortably leave my flowering plants for 5 days or so with no worries. I don't if I am home--I can't keep away from my plants. However it makes it possible for me to have a life and leave for for several days at a time, if I want to. I think once you get things down, it can run really smoothly.

 

[orangesunshine]

dirt

 

[Rosebud]

OMG Orange, those are beautiful.

 

[orangesunshine]

well done multifarious---no doubt mine did not look like that while they were growing---you got some sick skills---lol

thanks Rosebud---you are too kind---one day i can only hope to have the skills to do what multi did in dirt

 

[Growdude]

It all grows dope, alot of it has to do with your living situation as to whats best.

 

[NorCalHal]

Sorry THG...been in da mountains

I know,I know, I am being a little silly and picky about it, but to me DWC is a different monster from traditional "hydro". Maybe because I'm old, and remember when DWC first started. In reality, I guess it is all considered "Hydroponics".

For me, Hydro was/is something like a flood table, top water feed/drip thru a soiless type medium. I guess "soiless medium" being the key word. Some type of medium goes along with "hydro".

DWC was/is different. Instant uptake with no medium whatsoever, just fast uptake, if all is well. The plant never lacks as a steady supply of perfect ppm/ph'ed and water temp water ready for use. BUT, it all has to be perfect to get optimum results.
Hydro is a little more forgiving, as you can trouble shoot out of problems a little easier without devestating results as in DWC.

I don't know, I think DWC is a harder discipline to master then a flood table.

 

[Jimmy James]

If a person needed to be away for 5-10 days from time to time. What is better ?

 

[Rosebud]

Whenever I start to argue the merits of dirt I realize mine are arguments of feelings and subjective feelings not objective findings. At the risk of sounding like an old hippy, hydro is just not natural. I think the plants are happier in dirt. No scientific evidence to back that up of course.

 

[Rosebud]

If a person needed to be away for 5-10 days from time to time. What is better ?

Not dirt indoors unless you have someway to water.

 

[Budders Keeper]

When I had flood tables I would laeve them for a week without even thinking twice about it. Pretty much the same with the Ebb and Gro I'm running now, just haven't built up quite the trust in it yet that I had with tables.

I agree to each their own, and living situation may also determine. Not sure I would want to run hydro in an attic set-up. If I have a problem it will run under the garage door and down the driveway, not inside my walls and on my furniture and electronics.

I started with hydro and love it. That may be the reason I have a very hard time keeping everything right in dirt for very long. To each their own.

I have run both in the same room with no problem(other than fighting to keep dirt right). Usually when my buckets don't fill out the room fast enough I'll through a couple pots in there so I can flip lights and not waste space.

Smoke up.. BK

 

[The Hemp Goddess]

Sorry THG...been in da mountains

I know,I know, I am being a little silly and picky about it, but to me DWC is a different monster from traditional "hydro". Maybe because I'm old, and remember when DWC first started. In reality, I guess it is all considered "Hydroponics".

For me, Hydro was/is something like a flood table, top water feed/drip thru a soiless type medium. I guess "soiless medium" being the key word. Some type of medium goes along with "hydro".

DWC was/is different. Instant uptake with no medium whatsoever, just fast uptake, if all is well. The plant never lacks as a steady supply of perfect ppm/ph'ed and water temp water ready for use. BUT, it all has to be perfect to get optimum results.
Hydro is a little more forgiving, as you can trouble shoot out of problems a little easier without devestating results as in DWC.

I don't know, I think DWC is a harder discipline to master then a flood table.

Thanks NCH, I was just curious. I guess that I think of hydrotron as a medium, although technically, DWC could be done with no medium as you mentioned. I start a lot of my clones this way.

There is just something about those roots growing out there in the (highly oxygenated) air and water that I find captivating. I am quite taken with hydro. But then, I'm a water-baby--I just love water. I love to swim, raft, fish, etc. I am a plumber and work with water all the time. Water is an amazing compound. All the water that has ever been is still on this earth. Water that fell on dinosaurs falls on us. I believe that it is the only compound where the solid form is lighter than the liquid form, thus ice floats. If ice did not float, life as we know it would not be possible on this planet.

I guess I figure that if my plants are growing big and green and giving me a nice yield that they are happy. At least I hope they are. They get almost as much care as my kids received .

 

[akhockey]

I grow hydron with an ebb and flow and full organic soil in 3 gallon grow bags side by side. The growth is similar but veg is slightly faster with hydro. I just like to garden so I do them both.