Growing only partial organic?

Powertech

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So, I used Black Gold soil on my first grow, and it worked great. So this time I used it again, but am using a couple different microbe products as well. I noticed some slight nute burn after only a few feedings, and at this point last time had gave tons of nutes. I guess the microbes are taking this organic soil and making their own nutes as well.

So guess my question is, does anybody else grow partially organic? My plants seem to be absolutely loving it, but I can’t find much info on feeding this way
 
I know some growers that grow mineralic but use expensive organic soil because they say that soil is of better overall quality (longer decomposed, broken down to finer parts)

Then theres the opposite, supersoil growers that -if the need arises- will feed mineralic instead of just plain water because its more swiftly accessable by the plant. But they only feed reactively ie. 1-2 times per grow so theres hardly toxic salt buildup. Microbes can still tolerate that.
 
Thanks for the input! All I know is what I am doing is working, and quite well. I’d really like to know why because I though salts would kill the microbes, and I thought the microbes would need longer to break down the soil into usable nutrients. I was more adding microbes on top of what I did my first grow to see what would happen, and what happened is I have used about 1/4 less water soluble nutes. Curious if flower will go as well, only had 2 nights so far
 

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It seems that more people actually run semi-organic over true organic, all it takes is a bag of living soil or should i say soil, and some bottled synthetic nutes, sounds like the ocean forest/tiger bloom special lol.

Synthetic feeds every week could slow down the microbe population and make them less effective, compost tea,ewc ect would replenish them right away or they come back slowly.

In soil, you can't really kill them off for good but it doesn't matter anyway because your main source of food comes from outside the pot.

Healthy plants!
 
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