What is required?

medicalmaryjane

medicalmaryjane

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I thought my plant was organic but then I realized I used non-organic soil. Does it really matter? I just can't say it is an organic plant, will the quality suffer? What's the point of growing organic? I thought it was mostly to avoid spraying.

When people grow organic tomatoes for commercial sale, they aren't using any special soil, they go in the ground, the ground is probably just as contaminated as my potting soil?

What is required to call your plant organic? Organic soil? Organic Fertilizer? Organic seeds? Organic pestacide (if necessary)?
 
Uvalax

Uvalax

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Organic is just stuff in the soil that used to be alive and now decayed/decomposed. Non-organic is syntthetically made chemicals.

Chemical fertilisers can give the bud a different, "chemically" taste, etc but could also give it better nutrition and thus bigger buds.
 
tip top toker

tip top toker

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medicalmaryjane said:
I thought my plant was organic but then I realized I used non-organic soil. Does it really matter? I just can't say it is an organic plant, will the quality suffer? What's the point of growing organic? I thought it was mostly to avoid spraying.

When people grow organic tomatoes for commercial sale, they aren't using any special soil, they go in the ground, the ground is probably just as contaminated as my potting soil?

What is required to call your plant organic? Organic soil? Organic Fertilizer? Organic seeds? Organic pestacide (if necessary)?
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When people grow tomatoes for comercial sale and wish to sell them as organic then they do not simply chuck them in the ground and call them organic, they would face HUGE fines and courts cases if they did. To sell something as organic the producer must be certified by the relevent association (in the UK it is the soil association, i forget the european counterparts), which also happens to cost a good bit of money. I know a huge amount of producers who produce organic food stuffs yet have to call it free range chicken or just tomatoes, purely because they can find no justification in spending money for their food to sound better, and yet it's still organic food. Organic is a money business not a healthier eating business (although they'll try and convince you all otherwise, even down to the packaging of an organic product being far superior.

A lot of the desire for organic produce is so they can feel good about themselves, little more, the idea that it tastes far superior is a very weak arguing pint, the flavours are minimal. It's for peace of mind of simply feeling smug about yourself.
 
TruenoAE86coupe

TruenoAE86coupe

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Quality will not suffer, honestly unless you are in one of the flooded medical markets no one really seems to care about organic. You may not be able to sell it to that vegan chick now, thats about it.
 
medicalmaryjane

medicalmaryjane

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I am not selling it, just growing for personal use lol. I don't think I will know the difference. I do usually buy organic but that is just because the dispensary I buy from sells mostly organic.

thanks for the clarification. I buy a lot of organic produce and I always thought it's better without pesticides because the chemicals can penetrate the skin and you ingest them. I buy free-range organic eggs. In the US, if you don't buy free range, you're probably buying eggs that came from pretty nasty conditions.
 
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Wetdog

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tip top toker said:
When people grow tomatoes for comercial sale and wish to sell them as organic then they do not simply chuck them in the ground and call them organic, they would face HUGE fines and courts cases if they did. To sell something as organic the producer must be certified by the relevent association (in the UK it is the soil association, i forget the european counterparts), which also happens to cost a good bit of money. I know a huge amount of producers who produce organic food stuffs yet have to call it free range chicken or just tomatoes, purely because they can find no justification in spending money for their food to sound better, and yet it's still organic food. Organic is a money business not a healthier eating business (although they'll try and convince you all otherwise, even down to the packaging of an organic product being far superior.

A lot of the desire for organic produce is so they can feel good about themselves, little more, the idea that it tastes far superior is a very weak arguing pint, the flavours are minimal. It's for peace of mind of simply feeling smug about yourself.
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THE TRUTH WILL OUT!!!! :mrgreen:

+rep for you!

That last line says so much. LOL

Wet
 
dudeoflife

dudeoflife

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Wetdog said:
THE TRUTH WILL OUT!!!! :mrgreen:

+rep for you!

That last line says so much. LOL
Wet
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Can't agree more.

This whole organic/chemical debacle started over PESTICIDES, then somehow evolved into debates about ferts.

Chemical ferts are superior to organic ferts. Hands down. The only concern one should have about the chems is the presence of certain undesirable heavy metals such as lead and mercury, typical of inferior chemical ferts.
 
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Wetdog

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You can also mix&match if you know what you're doing.

The micro herd is a lot tougher than people think.

Wet
 
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