I was thinking of giving the old hydro a shot for my next crop of precious tomatoes.

But the set up seems a bit daunting could anyone tell me if

a)the yeild is higher
b)Plants grow faster
c)what are the risks/possible problems.
d)are the buds as potent and tasty.

I'm a bit old fashioned I guess, but I have to say I like soil. I know they say hydro is better, but the way I look at it is things are supposed to be grown in the ground. Soil is good for you.

Why do strawberry's that have been grown hydroponically in Holland have no taste, yet the ones grown organically in soil taste beautiful?

my homegrown tomatoes were full of flavour tastier than most the stuff thats sold round here.

I can't rely be assed with the fuss of it tbh

Also if you ever get caught it will count against you, they will assume your a repeat offender because of your amassed skill and equipment.
If you keep it simple, use things you could buy from any garden center, re-use pots or recycle other things to use as pots, put your expensive "tomato" feeds and chemicals in cheaper commercial packaging then you should get off pretty lightly. depending on scale of operation obviously. and also don't keep a record or any evidence of any previous grows(rootballs/stumps, growbook etc.) then you can say you are an innocent that has been seduced by this evil drug and that you'll never do it again and are sorry. they'll love that.

Yeah i did hear hydro counts againsts you because hydroponics makes genetically modified super skunk a million times the strength of thirty years ago.

I also decide against a SOG for the exact same reason, If you have twenty small plants in a SOG they will assume you are growing twenty six foot plants.

ilovebud wrote:
Yeah i did hear hydro counts againsts you because hydroponics makes genetically modified super skunk a million times the strength of thirty years ago.

I also decide against a SOG for the exact same reason, If you have twenty small plants in a SOG they will assume you are growing twenty six foot plants.

I wouldn't say skunk is a million times stronger, not even 3 times stronger, if grown hydroponically, unless you are comparing it with say outdoor bush weed, nor is any skunk genetically modified, there is no such thing as GM weed. Not been reading the Daily Mail have we old boy?

I can't see what the all fuss about stronger weed is i recently smoked some red lebonese which blew my tits off, i payed 15 an eighth for it and it's rare . I've been told by many 30years ago (parents, dealers etc) that good quality hash like that was in abundance.

I recon the reason the politicians have to make up these skunk lies because they all did it when they were young but they can justify keeping it criminalized by saying it's a different drug than what it was.

Hashish and Oil are always going to be the strongest form of cannabis they will never grow grass that potent because there it too much plant material.

You my friend have hit the hammer with the nail. The reports of skunk being up to 15 x stronger is from an article in High Times, comparing pot grown by the seed companies themselves under optimum conditions comparing it with outdoor bushweed.

Outdoor bushweed would typically have a level of THC of 1- 5% whereas skunk (or white widow or mk ultra or ak47 or jack herer, etc.,) grown indoors under lights may typically have a THC level of 10 - 15%, in rare cases even as much as 20% but these kind of indoor weeds have been around for years, and it's very disingenuous to say there are new kinds of "skunk cannabis" that are 3 (even 15) times stronger.

They lost the argument on cannabis about 10 years ago, however, they are now fixing the fact to try and reverse the more liberal attitudes towards pot of recent years. Just like they fixed the facts on weapons of mass destruction to go to war in Iraq, they are inventing untruths about cannabis to justify tightening the rules.

Anyway, good job we are talking about growing tomatoes on this forum, though I agree it's also interesting to talk hypothetically about these skunk cannabis' they speak of.

Have you seen how the US has prevented drugs legalization in Canada. Also if I'm sure if you grew bagseed under lights without males in perfect conditions they would be fairly potent.

Sensi has been around for thousands of years there are reports of them using the technique of removing the male plants as long as 3000years ago. Hashish has also been around a very long time.

yes and as they were grown by the seed companies themselves to test THC levels, they are hardly going to grow some rubbish

ilovebud wrote:

I recon the reason the politicians have to make up these skunk lies because they all did it when they were young but they can justify keeping it criminalized by saying it's a different drug than what it was.

Quoted for truth!

I'd say soil is best, too, for all the reasons stated.

All the more reason for people to just drop the hype about how bad it is, I understand hemp plants can remove heavy _meta_ls from soil so it's good for helping to return polluted land back to a healthy state.

Also did you know hemp could prevent global warming, make clothing cheaper and replace paper to avoid cutting trees down.

For sure, hemp is a great alternative to wood for paper, and we certainly should not be cutting down rain forests.

Not sure about Global Warming, I think that's a hoax, which politicians are using as an excuse to introduce more taxes, centralise powers, and use as a smoke screen to hide other more worrying environmental problems.

I saw an interesting talk in Totnes recently by an ecologist called Peter Taylor who has done research that has led him to conclude recent global warming is a result of natural activities and the planet is now entering into a period of global cooling

For more info read this report by Peter Taylor on his web site http://ethos-uk.c...e/ECSRSummary.pdf

yeah i've always been sceptical about global warming i mean earth has always changed conditions the ice etc.

Did you know the reason hemp was banned was because of oil and cotton companies imagine how many problems would have been averted like pollution and fuel shortages if everybody was using hemp, that is fast growing and far more efficiant than other plant fuels.