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Hey everyone,
I co-own a small grow in WA state. We brought a grow guy on board a few months ago who was really impressed with the UC system demos he had seen and decided it was the route we should take. Well, he recently had to back out of the business for personal reasons. Now I'm left with a partial build out that assumes the use of an UC system and no grower familiar with the system. So I've been reaching out to other grow guys (and gals) I know and to my surprise, very few of them recommend hydro, especially for newbie growers. Lots of horror stories (none specific to UC, just in general regarding hydroponics) .. according to them, increased yields at the price of more stress, maintenance, disease, etc. They all grow in soil or coco, without exception. Damn.
I only know the basics of growing, but am technically competent otherwise. If you were in my shoes, rewinding your knowledge of grow to basically zero, would you stick with UC or go the soil/coco route? I've been reading up on UC here (really impressed so far), but am still a bit hesitant to jump in head first with this system just based on what I read on forums. Things like this always seem to appear very simple in principle but quite an endeavor in practice. Anyway, I'm looking at outfitting a 12x25 veg room and either one or two 12x25 flower rooms with 12 site systems. Any advice? Feel free to PM me if you'd like. Thanks.
I co-own a small grow in WA state. We brought a grow guy on board a few months ago who was really impressed with the UC system demos he had seen and decided it was the route we should take. Well, he recently had to back out of the business for personal reasons. Now I'm left with a partial build out that assumes the use of an UC system and no grower familiar with the system. So I've been reaching out to other grow guys (and gals) I know and to my surprise, very few of them recommend hydro, especially for newbie growers. Lots of horror stories (none specific to UC, just in general regarding hydroponics) .. according to them, increased yields at the price of more stress, maintenance, disease, etc. They all grow in soil or coco, without exception. Damn.
I only know the basics of growing, but am technically competent otherwise. If you were in my shoes, rewinding your knowledge of grow to basically zero, would you stick with UC or go the soil/coco route? I've been reading up on UC here (really impressed so far), but am still a bit hesitant to jump in head first with this system just based on what I read on forums. Things like this always seem to appear very simple in principle but quite an endeavor in practice. Anyway, I'm looking at outfitting a 12x25 veg room and either one or two 12x25 flower rooms with 12 site systems. Any advice? Feel free to PM me if you'd like. Thanks.