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I'd also say for your first time do soil, but hydro is not as complicated or expensive as you might think
am doing my first hydro grow now (did soil for all my other grows) and my rig prolly cost about $100 to build (if that)
30 for a nice heavy duty bin for a res, 12 for a root zone bin, $15 for a 400 GPH pump and lines and fittings prolly cost $40 (and I have all kindsa spare fittings left over)
will always have plants in soil for moms and such, but for my personal use production the hydro was so worth it
stayed away from hydro for a long time cuz I didn't know how I was gonna dump a res, but it turns out you don't HAVE to dump and flush unless something goes wrong following the lucas formula for feeding and I also incorporated a bio matrix into the system (a bunch of lavarock, it is supposed to harbor beneficial bacteria to keep fungus and algae in check)
my plants are lovin life and I have had the same nutes in it for 8 weeks
(at 4 weeks 12/12 right now)
good luck man!
get a ph meter and some up & down, biggest mistake I made when first starting was thinking "I don't need that shit" a few months later when my plants got all fucked up, it turned out they were experiencing deficiencies due to ph lockout and here's me adding WAY to much food to fix a problem, but that only made things worse...
true genius is learning from the mistakes of others my friend and trust me, I have fucked up MJ in pretty much every fashion you can think of..
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