Dr. Who
Well-Known Member
Few words on organic and synthetic.
In the end. The nutrient ions being used by the plant. ARE EXACTLY the SAME, organic, or synthetic..
Organic liquid nutrients are plant ready, and have been chelated by organic chelators.
Synthetic nutrients are chelated by chemicals like EDTA. (BTW, Hope college in Holland MI found the first method of treating lead poisoning. You treat the person with chelators like EDTA. It strips the metals from the person, in the places it's stored and does the most damage - the brain.)
Organic chelated nutrients are still considered "mineral salts".
You can make the same damn mistakes with either synthetic or organic liquid nutrients - period!
THE greatest debate in organic growing today is;
Is it really organic growing. Using chelated nutrients in any media.
Or is it actually organic growing to build a soil from natural sources for the amending of nutrients, and grow naturally with naturally sourced (EWC and Various compost sources) living bio's.
In other words. Many feel that unless you use natural amended organic soil. Your not truly growing organic with organic sourced and chelated liquid nutrients! You've short cut the living bio's in the soil doing the work and adding their chemical compounds, how ever minute they are, to the natural living bio's chelation of the natural compounds made available to the plant by that action.
VS.
Using prechelated and already a available to the plant nutrients. No matter how they were chelated. They (organic chelated liquid nutrients) don't organically chelate through soil bio's to make the liquid organic, plant ready nutrients.
While the source quality of any nutrient (organic or synthetic) is important. To use an "organic sourced" nutrient line. Doesn't mean it's better then another. Several synthetic lines use organic sources for their nutrients. Doesn't make them better then ones made with non-organic source's......
I'm on the side of the natural soil folks.....Make the bio's in the soil do the work. That's organic.
Pouring organic chelated, plant ready nutrients on any soil in a pot containing a plant. Is not exactly organic growing!
Over many years, tried many nutrient lines. I still do some synthetic plants. I'm seriously impressed with Botanicares KIND line. Damn simple and infinitely adjustable to plant needs.
Hesi
Canna
and a few others are just as good.
Things like H&G
AN, and others.
Are a scam of the maker, breaking nutrient compounds into differing bottles of various sizes and varying needs. They say you constantly need more and more to get to XY, or Z level of growing.
They're doing no more then stealing from you. You can do just as well with the KIND and a cpl of simple supplements.
Less is more, and all the "grow" magazines are no more then glossy ways to promote sales of the over hyped nutrient lines. BIG MIKE is a curse on the MJ growing world! AN - CYCO and H&G are the Monsatan's of nutrient makers...His claim's of his nutrients being MJ specific is an outright LIE! He might balance and chart for MJ but, in the end, a nutrient, is a nutrient, is a nutrient.... They are not specific to any living organism that uses then. Including the human body!
Understand better yet?
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