Why go organic?

It's done so you don't get the chemicals regular nutes would have.

 

pH testing is for nerd wannabes.

 

I got some UK Cheese from the dispensary about a week back, and although the effects were pretty good, it tasted like a 6 week old dead body covered in burnt hair....just horrible....to the point where I became nauseated. I'm about 99% sure this stuff was grown in hydro with lots of nutes and no flushing at the end. I have some solid lungs, and I was having to roll half cheese/half natural tobacco joints...which were actually pretty good. Now, after a week, the chemicals seem to be working their way out and the smoke is much smoother...can now smoke from bong unlike before. You seem to sacrifice some quality for the bigger yields. Not worth it to me if you only grow for personal/medical use. I'm 3 weeks into my first grow, which is mostly organic, and my 3 plants are just as big or bigger than most of the plants I see in pictures of hydro grows at the 3 week mark. To each his own, but if you have a good setup, soil will work pretty well. After all, I'm pretty sure that's how it grows in nature.

 

Synthetic nutes will get you there for sure, but not without a pH meter, ppm meter, all the shit to maintain those meters, pH up and down solutions, an ass-load of pricey watered-down mystery bottles, a couple of trips to the sick plant section, and a whole slew of odd-at-best ideas on horticulture only practiced by guys that dump shit-wads of cash at the grow shop.

The alternative is a plant growing on its' own terms in an environment that offers it what it wants, when it wants it. It's cheap and it works very well. Just water it every now and then, like you would any other house plant.

 

organic is the natural way to grow to plants. the right way. hydro is the fake way, its like force feeding the plants with a tube down their throat.. with organics the plant gets to choose what it eats and pig out on different meals thats why theyre always happy and healthy when grown organically. i swear when i was growing hydro with chemicals and even soil with chemical nutes i was always trying to fix a problem and deficiency, ph problems, nute burn, etc etc..

not too mention its so much cheaper and easier..

organics= all the work in the beginning making your soil, less then $100 and then just water and a couple teas after that, the teas are fun anyway. and the buds are so smoothe to hit and tasty.. even the high is cleaner with no come down it seems. no problems having to run to the hydro store to get a new bottle.. after you make the soil you really wont have to spend anymore money, just equipment.

chemical nutes= expensive. each bottle is over $30 and some up to $100 and you need multiple bottles and have to replace em when they run out.. you have to mix up your nutes every feed and constantly check ph with those finicky ass meters that never seem to work or always break. unless you get a $300 one. buds are harsher even with a good flush. on a positive note you can get larger yields and faster grows with chemical nutes but it does take away from the quality for sure.

and organics is just fun.. it really opens your eyes to how the plant works and you enjoy learning about each and everything..

chemical nutes you never really know whats in what and how things work, you just kinda take other peoples word for things and hope for the best. imo people that use chemical nutes havent really gotten into it completely, seems like theyre just trying to get fat yields and make a quick buck.

im sure someone with a lot more knowledge can come in here and really break it down but these are just my opinions.. organics is so much cheaper, easier and more rewarding.. i really dont know why people use chemical nutes, im always telling my friends that they have no idea and they need to open their eyes and see the light.

 

Don't you mean won't the chemical nutrients be just as good as the organic ones? I think you had that backwards. Chemical nutrients are mans way of trying like hell to copy those found in nature - but fail miserably.

 

i cant remember the last time i went to a grow store and bought ANY bottled, pre-mixed anything. Sure my wife bitches about all the rotten, fermented jars, buckets and totes all over the garage, but my pocket is WAY deeper and my medicine is... Medicine.
Thanks a million Grasscity!

 

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Arming his compost and black leaf mold.

 

Your all missing the bus here. Its all about the flavor

 

Well.. the hundreds of other reasons aside, since stumbling upon the organically section of this site I've become fascinated with organics in general. I'm working on bringing my entire lawn, garden and grass up to par with some of the amazing things I've seen and learned here. It's addictive and unendingly rewarding to say the least

 

IMO the "best" reason to go organic is one doesn't have to futZ around on a day-to-day basis ensuring the narrow margins of "success" are dialed in. Most of us O-types here can simply water our containers very thoroughly, pack up the car, and head to the hills for 2-3 days and all other things being equal, no mechanical or utility problems, we come back home and our plants are happier than the day we left. So, "maintenance" is a key consideration IMO as well.

I very often look very hard for "things to do" in my organic set up becuase once dialed in correctly one can pretty much plant "it" and go do something else for a while. There is just very, very, little maintenance with an organic grow that has been established properly.

As for your Q's regarding yield, time, quality, IMO those questions become irrelevant after a time. If one focuses on the basics of growing anything using either method, the yield, time, and quality takes care of itself. The focus should be on the plant not the method. If that makes any sense.

"taste", "quality" are subjective. "yield" is objective. It gets down to: "What can I do as the chlorophyl manager to allow this plant to be all that it wants to be".

Or sumpin' like that. Just know that non-organic styles of growing come with a bag of rocks you'll tote over your shoulder every single day for about 4 months. With organic style gardening the "bag of rocks" ain't much of a weight to tote around.