Liquid nutrients are full of salt powders always better especially in soil Hydro is a lot different you need liquid nutes there because your plants are in just water and it mixes up easier and doesn't Clump up and sink to the bottom and stuff like worm castings kelp and powdered fish fertilizer Seagate has some fantastic fertilizer and any newts you need look up buildasoil.com great company real small great service a lot of their stuff you can get from amazon.com Amazon is the best place to go if you want to find everything that you need and powdered newts not everything but you can get a 3 cubic foot bag of soil at Home Depot for about 5 bucks Kellogg's great s*** a buck and a quarter for a big bag of steer manure bags of compost for under ten bucks you don't want to buy that s*** from Amazon if you ain't read a book on growing bye Ed Rosenthal or the Rev or Jorge Cervantes and you're just throwing seeds in the ground and adding stuff to him do yourself a favor and read true living Organics or the Cannabis Encyclopedia by Jorge Cervantes there's a few books out there but they're the best as far as I can discern