Why so anti-organic?
Because you are so pro organics.You're missing out
Although I disagree that you can push the nutes a lot harder. If you push too hard with organics you have to flush and flush and flush and change your nutes and teas and all that. If I push too hard I drain, fill, flush, drain fill, done. And recovery is usually 4 days or so.
Right on, man. I see where your coming from.Because you are so pro organics.
Seriously, I agree with you about the people this article reports on. However these issue are not negated or alleviated by growing organic. These people are just being schmucks and using stupid growing techniques that were outlawed for a reason. Now personally, I don't do organics for a few reasons but it boils down to that with hydro I have far greater control of the nutrients my plants use than any soil based method. If I have a BIG problem in hydro that is nutrient based it takes no more than 7 days from diagnosis to recovery. (Inert medium. Hydroton) If I can read my plants correctly I can tailor the entire nutrient solution to the plant. I understand plant biology and know that when the plant finally uses the chemicals they are far different than what goes in the soil. And that much like any living organism the plant will not use what it does not need. Now, these are of course simplified terms, but you get my drift.
I do not disagree that you can get great results using organics. But for me, hydro is the best. Diffrent strokes and all that.
Some people prefer to grow organically, in tune with mother nature. Others prefer to grow in a lab, in tune with the universe.
Thats a whole other debate. Don't get me started!
What do you mean, "...that we all helped create..."? This has everything to do with the drug cartels abusing natural resources to make obscene profits on a black market item. This is a subtle propaganda swipe at medical marijuana, not organic vs hydro!
He is right. Synthetics nutrients aren't particularly good for your soil long term and if used outside for a long time they can kill off parts of the food chain. Some of the bigger commercial farms MUST use synthetic nuts all the time because they've wiped out the cultures in their soil (not just from nuts, but they play a role). Organic soil mixes improve the soil instead of harming them.
It is terrible. I won't defend that. But if you think about how we live our lives that's noting. We live in houses made from clear cut forest on land that at one time was all natural forest. We eat unnatural mass produced fruits and vegetables which are really fucking up the planet, make billions of animals spend their whole lives in boxes so we can turn them into food, and drive around in cars that shit all over our atmosphere. Humans are a fucking plague. These dirty grow is bad, but it doesn't even register in the top things we do to fuck up the planet every day. That's not an excuse, growers should behave better than that, but it is a fact.
If you really think about it, all our water is diverted water. If you're watering your grow with water off the tap that water is likely coming from a man made reservoir. That's diverting water too.
On-toppic:
The collective "we" created this problem by creating a market for herb. Yes, there are cartels working in CA, but there are also plenty of "medical" growers out in the hills. Do you think the dispensaries ask where/how herb was grown before they buy it? I think not. Propaganda or not, the article speaks the truth. Now it's our turn to ddo something about it.
