Rambling here, but i’ve noticed a pattern on my personal experiences.
Hydro always did better for me. It’s super subjective but I assume this is because everything is “dialed” in. I did a run with megacrop through blumat drippers, at 5-7g per gallon all the way through, and I had my best run in many years with that. I dare say, it’s because more food was available.
It makes sense that the more food available the more the plant is going to take advantage of it. Yes, the leaves may end up looking like ass at the end, but we aren’t going for leaves are we? We want those big, fat, sticky buds. We trim the leaves and discard them, so … yeah.
Feed like you’re trying to make your plants obese, they will greedily gobble up food they can and reward you for indulging them. (Imo)
Nice topic. 