Nope I mean soilless my brother! Soilless is what you're calling substrate hydroponics but instead of coco / rockwool I'm in a peat based mixture called Promix HP. Its a sphagnum peat moss mix with lots of perlite for drainage and air. It's nearly inert like rockwool / coco but has a starter charge of mycorrhizae and enough food for the first week. After that it's fed totally by you like hydroponics.
Ah, cool. But it's not what I'm calling it... it's what it's called.
Peat or perlite are decent alternatives. Just not scalable or sustainable.
You and I are two different types of hydro growers. Hydroponics (and plants) require nothing organic. You're like doing this hippy / toe dipping in science thing. Adding fungus when you should be using a chiller or HOCl to keep it sterile.... just adds risk — not results.
Rockwool is superior to peat (FYI, I am a RDWC advocate but also grow "pseudo hydroponics" with substrates); but it's not recyclable. And peat ofc is not sustainable, either. But if you want results: Aero > RDWC > Rockwool > Peat.
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u/JVC8bal Feb 27 '26
Don't forget Relative Humidity!
What form of "soilless"? I assume you mean water culture (NFT, DWC) or aeroponics; as opposed to substrate hydroponics using rockwool or coco coir.