Second grow coming up, Coco or soil??

Go with nutrifields 70% coco/30% perlite and use the heavy 16 nute line-up you'll poops yourself.

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Coco seems like too much work in my opinion. Constant watering and feeding. Not to mention the ridiculous costs of all the nutrients you will be adding.

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Go to nutrifield and they have a little search bar that finds local stores that carry it for you just call the store before hand and double check. As for the nutes a guy at my hydro shop turned me on to them and they have the same setup on their website. But believe me man whether i feed everyday or every other day ans give a dry day in between my plants just explode ive never felt this good with growing you know. Definitely worth a check man you get out what you put in my time and patience are gonna pay off real nicely.

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Like over half my fan leafs are almost the size of my face one month into veg. Can't wait to flower these monsters.

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Some people look at it like a hobby and enjoy spending time caring for them. I guess if you used all of those expensive and unnecessary additives it would be costly, but I don't use them and my nutrient cost is only $0.11 per gallon. I don't consider that ridiculous - especially if you can yield over a pound from a couple of plants. To the OP - Any grow method can be productive if done properly. I grow in coco and wouldn't grow any other way. Good luck.

 

Ok lol. It is definitely fun. But a lot of ppl don't don't have the time when you have a job working long hours. Besides, he asked for other ppls opinions. Why don't you tell him your secret 11 cent ingredient?

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You could also tell him which of the expensive gimmicks to stay away from as well.

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I love coco. I grew with ffof and kept getting gnats. They drove me crazy. I since switched to compressed coco and haven't looked back.

 

Do I detect a bit of sarcasm? The KISS method - 7 grams of MaxiBloom per gallon of tap water. I have a thread in the hydroponics/coco coir section that explains it.

I gave the OP my opinion about his question regarding coco.

 

If it's just between coco and ffof, I always choose ffof, and that simply because I don't need to water / feed as often when using ffof. For example during my last grow, the first 28 days, they got a 1/2 cup of water right at their base every 4 days, then when I put them into bigger pots, they got a cup of water right at their base every 4 days. I did that till day 60, then when I switched them over to flower, they got drenched, 5 gallons of water / feed in each 7 gallon pot. Then I did the same thing every time they got totally dry, first time took 6 - 8 days, second time third time, the same 6 - 8 day, the fourth time they dried out in 5 - 7 days, the fifth time, it was every 4 - 5 days, and stayed that way for 4 more watering's / feedings, then it went down to 3 days, at that time I just drench them with 3 gallons of water / feed every 3rd day until they were 2 weeks from being finished, then during those last 2 weeks they got just 1 gallon water a day. If I used coco, I would have to water / feed 3 x more times, and no that's not just me guessing, as I have been there and done that many times and it's just to much work when you have 10 - 20 plants going at once. As a side note... when I water, I feed every time I water, and all my cloth pots are on a raised screen so all run-off water / feed drains out and then it is pumped out to small holding buckets that I then manual drain after checking all my level, ie; pH, nutrient ppm level.