This wasn't a rebuttle, it was a simple statement of my position and what I have found to be true. But I didn't make all of the wild assertions that you are without providing any data or information.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur - "what is asserted without reason may be denied without reason"
Where is this RAW data AND analysis of taste tests? Please provide your findings.
What heavy metals are found in chemical nutes that aren't in organic fertilizers? If you have some information about the levels of heavy metals in chemical nutrients, PLEASE provide them. I would love to have a REASON to use organic fertilizers instead of the touchy feely "it makes me feel like it's better" without any actual proof that it is.
Heavy Metals in ORGANIC fertilizers can very much be aproblem...
http://www.omri.org/AdvisoryCouncil/Metals_in_Fertilizers-b6-2005-02-14.pdf
What would lead you to believe this information your providing as FACTUAL? Did you simply read it in this forum and you are regurgitating it? Seems to be the norm around here.
I know I come off as a dickhead sometimes in these little debates, and that's not my goal. My goal is to seek the truth and if you feel you have it, I would like you to give it to me. But I seek the truth through facts and findings, not blanket assertions on this forum that have a tendancy to continually propogate over and over. If 8 people SAY it does it become truth?
How many blind taste tests have you done? If the blanket statement is that organic buds taste better than those grown with chemical nutrients then it would seem we would all be able to taste this difference. I have smoked an ounce a week for YEARS and hydro buds generally taste better, smoke better and look better. I don't chalk this up to the fertilizer itself, but actually the growing method and the control the grower has over the exact levels of nutrients during the growth process.
But I don't make any assertion that hydro is better than organic or vice versa. There are obvious advantages to hydroponics for the grower, but the outcome final product's taste and smoke has really always come down to how healthy the plant was grown, the maturity at harvest, the drying and curing and the genetics. Not whether it was grown with organic or chemical nutrients.
By all scientific measures they are both just different methods of deriving the same elements.