Hybrid Growing

living soil uses microbs and amendments to feed the plant, its a lot of life and systematic things. hydroponics is more simple and everything is already available to the plant no need for breaking down or microboes, can run that system pretty clean mixing the two will clog the system up. you can use organic liquid hydro nutrients, but no net gain vs other hydro nutrients. you can't really use amendments in a hydro system without biofilms and clogs happening. shit makes it annoying and causes all sorts of problems later on. Its not easily done. the only hybrid version of this I could see if by using a hydroponic medium like coir and adding amendments into it and watering it like a soil grow. but adding amendments into a looped system like DWC is a bad idea IMO.

autopot system (hydro) & coco coir, a winning combination ;) growdiaries.com/diaries/154502-grow-journal-by-selkot

I think most of the response you're getting is because you'll never really recreate a sustainable living ecosystem for a plant like cannabis in a solution as if in soil proper. Living soil, as verbiage, is going to evoke the entirety of the living soil web. Living soil is something that is said often but not in a proper context when it comes to cannabis cultivation. You can totally do a living solution. You gotta be careful with what you wish for though, and why. Hydro is consistent, has maximum nutrient and oxygen availability, and most of that is going to be a byproduct of how controlled your grow is - this is where hydro shines. A living solution is going to be magnitudes more finicky, be less predictable, and have way more touches and solution swaps and full system breakdown cleaning events. In flower I will often do a sterile to living solution flow, where the solution starts sterile in a clean system and towards the end of that solution's lifecycle inoculant can be used...then repeat. A lot of effort to get the best of both worlds IMO, and really only worth the effort if you're chasing volatiles not cannabinoids. lmao at some of the responses. You can manually validate these things for yourself, an Amazon microscope and some field graded slides...I mean most anybody who actually does living soil is doing this for their teas to confirm species ratios relative to time in their tea...but I guess if you aren't doing that then living soil is whatever the package tells you or something?

No, no and...........no.

You probably mixed up hydroponic with aquaponic which is possible. Aqualitas in Canada is growing with a combination of living soil and aquaponic (koi fishes)

Well my friend you can either do one or the other. There is no such thing as living water, no mater what you do to it.

Why would you do a hybrid ? Makes Little to no sense at all…

This is the typical test for someone who has no clue what they're doing. They are 2 separate methods for very good reason. It's about as effective as using half zipper and half velcro and trying to get them to interlock. Just stick to 1 or the other.

No.

over-thinking / over-complicating with no real benefit. i'd say, shit or get off the pot. hydroponics is providing 100% of need in plant-available forms around roots.. .this is why growth is generally faster and easier to fine-tune exactly what exists around the roots in an optimal way -- not saying that has been mapped out 100%, but with a little effort and resources, it is a very achievable goal. living soil is trying to have that end result around roots, but more complicated / more steps involved as far as any slow release or necessary microbial life to break various amendments down into something the plant can use... in best case scenario, it can do roughly the same as what hydro does, assuming that all that extra dissolved stuff that isn't plant-available doesn't cause unnecessary impediments for roots to take in nutes. Maybe it's got a ceiling of "X%" of hydro.. or not... can't assume either, but is definitely a valid concern without proper research to be certain. so, they are not really compatible to put together.. sure you can do it... and you can even find a way to make it work, but it's either a poorly setup hydro grow or an insufficient living soil context, lol. 2 wrongs don't make a right. People engage in all sorts of less-than-efficient behaviour... look at the popularity of bottom feeding, lol, or those really elaborate training methods that end up taking 2x as much vege time to accomplish the same end goals. So, in the end do whatever floats your boat... just don't project magic onto it due to insecurity.