German balcony - Soil vs Hydro - Royal Jack Auto

Quite happy with the results of my first ever grow! In the "experiment", growing in soil won by a -hehe- landslide. Really easy to set up - I simply filled pre-fertilized vegetable soil into a pot. No measuring, no overpriced fertilizer products. Can't beat that. Considering the weather, the plant grew really well. This was in part, because I had it indoors under 84W of grow lights during most of the vegetative phase. The amount of sun we had in Germany this year was sadly miniscule so far. When my apartment started smelling the plant moved outside fulltime and grew there happily until harvest. The hydro plant ran into nutrient issues and the Kratky method really doesn't suit that well for a rapidly growing plant that has a 3 month+ life cycle. It is doable, but the main selling point becomes mood because the "low effort" part doesn't really hold up over that much time. You easily end up running into trouble with the nutrients or the water. A pot with soil seems simpler.