Douglas.Curtis
Autistic Diplomat in Training
Proper hydro requires one peek a day as well. If you have to constantly 'burp' your hydro you're doing it wrong.I like crops I can walk away from for a week and be ok. Hydro needs at least twice a day interaction.
Ph in soil? Plants deal with too high of pH better than too low. Too high of a pH and it slowly lowers, as the roots rot and drop the pH. Neither too high, nor too low pH in soil is ideal for a perfect grow. Unless you create the proper soil mix, your quality will suffer. Exactly the same way as in hydro, only hydro is stupid simple to mix properly as the info has been around for nearly 20 years.
Hydro, set up and maintained properly, is so stupid simple I sometimes can't believe it. Learning proper hydro, from the jumbled mess of information online, is what's difficult. I actually feel sorry for the majority of growers, soil and hydro alike. Prohibition has made their lives hell and their product is sub-standard, compared to what it really should be.
Cannabis is a hyper/dynamic accumulator plant. Unless you really understand what this means, it doesn't matter what style you use I'm not going to be impressed with your output. I used to think my cannabis was better than everything grown by others, until (once, years ago) I came across cannabis which was absolutely stellar. It put everything I'd ever done (and come across from others) to shame.
With time and research I fixed my issues. It took the expansion of my awareness of quality to do it. Growers should constantly source cannabis from others and ASK HOW IT WAS DONE when they find something better than what they can produce. Generally they lack awareness of the difference or the balls to admit they don't grow as well as they thought.
Be different, seek excellence, admit your shortcomings. In time people will go gaga over your cannabis, even when you screw it up.