I wanted to get a whole bunch of magazines to make a collage, if you don’t want some of those, you can send them my way, not the porn tho, you can keep those!
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Now you got me convinced, i’m getting a whole pack of them!!!
Soil all day everyday! Kinda annoys me high times posts articles like this. I don’t have much respect for them now days. If you got the money, seems like they’re more than happy to publish it in their giant book of cannabis ads.
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Funny how the general concensus is that for full terpene profile, grow in soil. What goes around comes around sometimes. Still a soil indoor grower and still organic. And High Times seems to have settled into selling weed LOL
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Do they still make magazines? Like, paper ones? 
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Hahahaha I think so…I do still like glossy full color weed porn while I sit on the can, I must admit. HT has a special place in my young heart, but its always fun to bash the ‘legends’ when they sell out or , like, change, ya know? Seems they are trying to appeal to a trendy crowd that doesn’t buy ‘paper’ magazines, or grow weed either these days.
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NOBODY reads print magazines anymore.
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Remember when they had piles of magazines in doctors offices for everyone to rub their grubby little hands on? 
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You just triggered my covid gag reflex.
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you just had to twist that nail in my forehead again LMAO I’m also partial to the magazine beside the toilet with water (and other liquid) damage, HT 2001 issue I think, ewww, sorry I should stop now
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im new to this forum in the way that this is my first post ever but a half lifetime ago ago was a member and read a lot about growing =) so this is my introduction 
My questions is does hydro make you a more skilled grower ? i dont know
but we all know that when jesus walked on this earth somewhere cannabis was growing in soil . god dont get things wrong =)
i haven’t read that article but i believe humans will always just try to reinvent the wheel for good or bad . but im gonna go soil all the way …
Pretty sure they’re wrong. Most growers home or commercial are in soil, it’s way cheaper and easier than hydro, and if you look on any grow board(like this one lol) you’ll see most people using soil. Not knocking hydro, In fact my first three grows were dwc and came out great, they were a giant pain in the ass though. I’m doing organic soil now for the first time and veg was a bit slower but pretty much issue free. I’m in week 2 of flower now and still no problems aside from cats that like weed leaves.
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I may try some kind of hydro set-up but…I don’t have the need for gigantic yields and I get enough measuring and mixing at work so for me hydro is a less enjoyable, more technical way of growing. Hydro done well pretty much has no peer in sheer thc numbers, but I like being closer to nature and getting my hands dirty. Yeah as if, closer to nature is growing under LED in a plastic bucket but I do try to keep to organics and keep away from pesticides. EVERYONE who grows, is a SOMEBODY in my eyes. Cheers
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Very debatable. I have a thread where I show a grow that cost me less than $8 in nutes and got almost 3 lbs of world-class buds. They were grown in ebb and flow buckets and the entire setup is reusable, including the hydroton. I spend about 5 minutes every few days dealing with the nutes/reservoir.
Don’t get me wrong. I love growing in soil. It’s how I started growing; in fact - I currently have about 15 plants in soil. For me, soil requires much more work - and money. Of course, my soil grows would cost less if I never bought bags of soil and the various amendments, but I do, so I have to factor it in.
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I’d probably blast all my cash getting the latest sensor arrays and automatic the shit outta things, so true what you said, I would say in the long run, I end up spending more with soil amendments than you (or those who mix their own) do on nutes and hydro uses less water! When it’s a passion and hobby, as opposed to a job, growers don’t really count pennies, anyhow our labour is the most valuable asset to our grows and we do it for free, for fun, relaxation, and weed we can be proud of.
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Yeah, but as soon as you try scaling up hydro gets expensive. Bulkheads, pumps, res, airstones etc, shit gets expensive fast. The soil I’m using is $10 a bag and the 2gal growbags came in a 50pack for lest than $20 I don’t remember exactly.
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So In my humble experience and opinion hydro is a great way to grow for beginners drain to waste ebb flood coco dwc are all super easy and cheap to do for a startup but if you move past a few plants that’s a whole different story a dwc bucket takes 2 mins to make and most people have everything they need already but scale up it’s a different story shit gets complicated and expensive I’m organic soil indoors oh no now but whatever suits your tastes the product is all that matters in the end oh and btw F@@k HT
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Yeah, when I started I was all about hydro. Faster veg times, less pest problems. It was dope for a couple plants in a small tent but then I tried running a multi light room with a bunch of standalone dwc buckets, and between trying to manage ph, temperature, refills and res changes it was a giant pain in the ass.
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reflection of our current World for sure. Never trust ANY media that is mainstream.
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All this talk has got me thinking of a single dwc bucket in the room to inspire the soil girls? I’m getting bi(method) curious lol. I got all the shit except plumbing and a drain in my basement…ahhh NOW I remember why I use soil…yeah no emergency flood failsafe system…Yeah, I had a 65 gallon aquarium down there for a few years…ended badly…Alrighty then, Soil for Life it is!!! BTW I have had my soil for 7 years or so, keep adding amendments, perlite, peatmoss, manure, then all the expensive goodies, kelp, humic acid, yadda yadda yadda, go through about 500 bucks a year in total, running 49-53 plants in total with 10-16 plants in a constant bloom cycle under 2400 watts of hps and LED. I average around 2.5 oz per plant, I think I’m only about .5 g per watt unless I really go at it, but LITFA works fine for me, I don’t like production pressure. Outdoor cycling my winter indoor soil mitigates most of the bad pest imbalance, thrips are food for all the bugs outside, they do not survive the summer at all. Niether do spider mites.
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