I would deny that concept.
I would deny that concept.
Organic has become more of a political term than anything. In chemistry, organic simply means it contains a carbon molecule. It says nothing about quality, taste, nutritional content, or cleanliness. Plants grown with a high quality mineral based nutrient will always outperform organically grown plants in terms of growth rates. They will also have higher nutritional content. Taste is a hot issue so I will only say this: Hydroponic nutrients have the potential to make some very tasty and fragrant buds just like organics.
Based on these things it is obvious that people don't choose organic for any performance value, so there must be another reason. (for anyone who wants to say mineral nutes hurt the environment.....go back to school. When used correctly, there is no negative environmental impact whatsoever) If they think it is cleaner because hydro nutes contain chemicals, they are absolutely mistaken. Firstly, everything is a chemical. Water is a chemical. People need to stop saying things like "chemical fertilizers" and realize that organic nutes contain "organic chemicals". High quality hydro nutes are direct sourced from mines that pull minerals straight out of the earth. They are not contaminated during purification, and from a chemistry standpoint, the elements are in a superior form in terms of purity and availability. Organics relies on bacteria and enzymes breaking down decomposing organic material. Much of this material is feces. This is what always gets me. Ignorant organiphiles say that they don't want to give their plants hydro nutes because they don't want to consume the chemicals (this in itself is a retarded statement)..... but they will give their plants animal shit and then consume them..... what the fuck was that animal eating????? Think about what we give animals nowadays. Antibiotics, growth hormones, genetically modified foods, etc...... and then we want to put that on our plants, and consume them? Not to mention the fact that feces contains a ton of nasty shit that I don't want to be consuming. Did you know that food grown with human feces is considered organic?
Let me repeat that in a more dramatic fashion:
If you have every purchased organic produce from the store it is very possible that you have eaten produce grown with human feces.
In mexico they literally will use untreated sewage, straight from the sewers, to feed their organic crops. We get a ton of our organic produce from mexico.
Hydroponic crops contain none of this nastiness because the nutrients are clean. I would much rather eat (or smoke) clean plants with a higher nutritional content than plants grown using feces.
THAT BEING SAID
If you are a grower that uses earth worm castings and brews compost teas and has a little farm where you know exactly what your animals are eating and you use some of their feces, what you have is a beautiful example of a self sustaining cycle which will produce high quality crops without any investment in fertilizers. I have no problem with this whatsoever.
We know though that most "organic growers" are simply using crap they buy in a bottle which most likely contains sketchy ingredients, questionable ratios and elemental content, nasty animal feces, etc.......
Therefore, my problem is not with the concept of organic gardening, it is with the fact that most people have absolutely no idea what they are giving their plants but they think they are socially advanced because they are "organic gardeners". Drop the ego, get off your high horse, and accept organic formulas for what they are. ANOTHER WAY FOR COMPANIES TO MAKE MONEY.
Final words :
Self sustaining organic farms are sweet. People looking to grow organic should do it because it represents a natural approach to gardening. I think of it more like learning to live off the land. We are taking the decomposing organic matter and returning to the earth so that new plants can grow to feed the animals to make the feces to make more plants and so on and so on.
Since most of us cant keep a small self sustaining farm in our backyards we rely on nutrient companies to sell us organic fertilizers. This already defeats the concept because it is not self sustaining. People need to stop thinking of organic as just being what is fed to the plants and realize it should refer to a lifestyle choice. Buying general organics as opposed to general hydroponics does not make you an environmentalist. I have no problem with organics, just the people who grow using organics because they all seem to have their head 2 ft up their own ass and don't realize they are just making the same nutrient companies rich by buying their organic versions. I respect organic farmers and people who use organics for the right reasons. Other than that its a bunch of liberal douchebags who have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
And let me reiterate one final time: Most organic nutrients contain a bunch of nasty shit beyond the things you want to give to your plants.
Personally, I would much rather give my plants top quality mineral nutrients and forget all the bullshit (literally).
