Im just now making the switch to hydro from organic few things I noticed about organic soil grows
- fabric pots dry out fast (you'll be watering a lot)
- plastic pots hold water better (you'll water less!)
- can reuse soil over and over and amend the soil after each grow to add more nutrients
- slow to grow
- ease of use, I simply used canna bio vega for veg and canna bio terra + boost for flower
- still needed to do ph'ing even though some people say it'll balance itself out
- more soil = more roots = more fruits
But at the end of the day these organic nutrients break down into the same chemical structure as hydro nutrients, so the whole organic vs non-organic is a bit of a meme. DWC will grow much faster and much larger than organic ever will.
Hi. Thanks for your input.
I can't say I have any significant experience growing organically in containers.
I do have some experience growing in coco, watering every day and mixing barrels of solution every week, measuring ph, etc. It's amazing how fast they grow with this treatment. It's also a pain in my ass. I mostly want away from that. Quality or not, a large pot of soil with a reservoir will be much easier than an active hydro system or hand watered coco.
And as far as organic tasting better, I can't say I have any clue. Isn't Colorado weed organic? It tasted better than the crap we get here. But that could just be because it was in Colorado and not here.
Organic vegetables taste better though. And have been tested to have significantly (in since cases several times) higher nutrient levels. It's true that the plant only absorbs nutrients in an inorganic form, but something seems to be getting lost with that missing link. I don't know, but I guess I'm about to find out.
I'm not planning on using any bottled nutrients. Might as well just keep using Jack's for pennies a gallon if that's the case. I'm hoping to build a strong, large, fertile soil and keep it fertile via top dressings. Put some worms in there. Then keep the worms fed and the plants can much on the worm poop. Something along those lines.
Good luck with the hydro. It's cool, and I'll definitely keep at it for a while. But it's a lot of attention. I grew up uh...rural. You just buried a seed and kept the weeds back until its established, and it handled the rest itself. That's what I want to recreate.