Why do you choose to grow organic?

For me it's simple, everything tastes better when given what mother nature intended for her plants to eat. Over 20 years ago I was a conventional veggie farmer and used every chemical under the sun in my production. When I tasted my first heirloom Black Tula tomato grown organically I new then I had to make the change. It took me 4 years to totally convert and boy was it hard, but well worth it. As far as smoke goes organic under MH with some supplemental cfl (2700k) produces the best smoke around! When cured 3-4 weeks the flavor and potency are hard to beat. I have sampled many hydro nugs, but they just don't stand up to mother natures finest.

Please share your opinions

I'm just lazy, sorta.

Been making my own mix since 1972. Peat moss/perlite/different stuff, depending on application.

Since I was mixing anyway, it was easy to add amendments and then an occasional top dress than mixing up 45 gallons+ of Peters (Jack's now), every week. Especially after I hit retirement age.

Of course everything taste better.

Been doing the organic amendments for about 4 years now and I use the same mix for everything.

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Less work, less shit to go wrong, nature is cool and it's great for patients who don't want to worry about all kinds of technical crap.........

im lookin into going organic, this is my first grow. im currently using canna coco pro plus. but i dont like using nutes as i keep burning the plants, im using ionic grow and boost. can anyone recommend a ready mixed soil which i dont need nutes for? unforutnatly i aint got the money to splash out and buy bit by bit to make my own thats why im looking for a mix. thanks.

I've been in the hort industry for about thirty years and have always been into soils and roots. Probably a good prof put that in my head, don't remember. Used to have a pretty large design/build landscape company, 10,000 square foot greenhouse and exterior nursery. I used to ship old turkey compost (really nice, low salts) in 18 wheeler loads. Also had other piles of stuff to mix with it depending on the plant. Every plant purchased from the outdoor nursery came with a bag of soil made up on the spot to compliment whatever the plant needed. I wouldn't guarantee my plants because if they couldn't make it live it was the buyer's fault. That's how good the stuff was. Been a believer ever since. It was an amazing selling tool, by the way.

I'm also not an advocate of buying 20 different products to make organic work. K.I.S.S

Small footprints is a big one for me. But a bigger one is the fact that the Chemical nutrients (among other poisons) in the food that I've been eating all my life have destroyed my stomach and caused problems that make it hard for me to eat, and I depend on my medicine being organic for juicing, inhaling, and other forms of consumption

Also, one thing I really like about growing organically is that I CAN'T EVERY TRULY predict what the plant is going to do with what I'm giving it. I mean, maybe if I mix my soil the exact same way and feed the exact same strains grown the exact same size under the exact same conditions...but that's not even truly possible.

Some people want to control everything about the plant, sometimes I think my plants control me. I like that they have the power. I give them what they need, and they use it how they see fit to. Then they reward me!! Lol. Win win...now if I could only find a plant that made me younger instead of high??

It taste better and it's the more natural way to do things. They don't need all those chem's to make them grow right and you don't have to worry with alot of over flushing in the end of flower. Way less shock and burn problems on the plant witch leads to a happy plant with proper taste and coloring. I refuse to grow any other way

I enjoy a living growing soil, good results and more forgiving. I'm not 100% organic but try as much as I can.

Less headache, when you grow for personal use you want less problems and less things to go wrong. Some people say faster growth rates and such but in reality the flower time is identical. Gonna be organic for me from now on...

I have always had a satisfaction from making something out of nothing. Organics to me is taking it back to the bear elements of what gods green earth has to offer, and seeing what you can do with them. Second would have to be the colors and smells.

Properly grown truly organic buds have the most amazing colors in the pistils and leaves. Ive never personally seen a hydro set up with green, blue, and pink hues in the same tent.
After which comes the incredible taste. To me hydro tastes fuely, like a manufactured type smell not matter how its flushed or cured. Organics gives you the true smell of the plants! Whether its earthy, poopy, spicy, or fruity it all comes from that dirty goodness, Organics!

i just got sick of fussing with feeding and keeping track of all that crap and doing all that work. bottled nutes are too much fuss for me. i just whip up a nice soil and i can pretty much just use plain water and some occasional fish fert. i find it so much easier to keep the plants healthy because everything they need is right there. and no more salt issues.

and yes, it does taste better to me. it brings out flavors that i didn't notice before in a strain i've been growing for a while.

it just so happens to be the cheapest way i've done it. i wouldn't mind spending a bit more if it meant better results, but i actually managed to spend less.

I prefer organics because of its cost, the amount of time I have to mess with the plants, and the taste/smell. Indoors I use a version of super soil, with a few compost teas for the extra boost. Outdoors the cost of adding gypsum to my clay each year is more than the cost of all my tea ingredients that would last a year. It's affordable, and especially outdoors if you focus on improving the dirt you have (over time). Lastly, it can repair the micro life in land that was depleted through excessive synthetic fertilizer use.

Did I mention the cost?

I've never grown any other way, from the veggie and herb garden i started as a child, it just makes sense, i couldn't imagine growing anything any other way. Well I would like to try aquaponics with fish living in my reservoir, or should i say where my reservoir IS a fish tank

And with cannabis, clients regularly respond with comments such as "wow that taste, incredible!" "dankest dank ever!" "smoothest smoke i've ever had!" again and again, year after year.

Speaks for itself

I think many people (not the ones here ) are overlooking a very simple fact... Cannabis is a plant, like all the rest of the plants we see around us every day. Sure, each plant is unique, but they have all evolved over thousands of years to grow in soil with the help of decaying organic matter and soil microbes. That's HOME for a plant.

SpicySativa said:

I think many people (not the ones here ) are overlooking a very simple fact... Cannabis is a plant, like all the rest of the plants we see around us every day. Sure, each plant is unique, but they have all evolved over thousands of years to grow in soil with the help of decaying organic matter and soil microbes. That's HOME for a plant.

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I couldn't agree more...

i'm an organic vegetable gardener. so if i'm going to eat organic, might as well smoke organic too. and i don't like fancy labels with big price tags. i compost, then feed that to worms. that's my nutes. and chicken shit.

I like growing 100% organic in large beds, where I can have true living soil with worms, fungi, microbes, beneficial insects, etc. I find that overall the plants are easier to maintain and its more environmentally friendly. However in a container or a closed system, I think synthetics have the advantage. The exception is when it comes to pesticides. Chemically derived nitrate is one thing, but poison is poison, and I prefer to keep it away from anything I consume or smoke.

I grow all types of ways in all types of mediums with Synthetic fertilizer and Organic fertilizer. If I want to make more $$ and have heavy plants I fill them will fertilizer salts. If I want to make medicine I grow organically.

The taste, smell, harshness, bagout and total effectiveness for med users is much better with organics. No toxic synthetic chemicals just works better for sick ppl that are filled with synthetic opium pills which is most dying.sick ppl.

Mary absorbs toxic chemicals and radiation faster then any plant on earth and even when flushed for 2-4wks it is still within the plants. They planted mj at chernobyl to remove the chemicals from the atomic bomb site to my knowledge.

I think the chemo, radiation, synthetic opium pills are hard enough on the body and earth for that matter.

i can see how organic can improve or atleast change the taste of marijuana, but i doubt its that noticeable. there are so many factors that affect quality. where i live ppl will argue over "home grown" and "hydro", claiming hydro is better, basically if the bud looks good then it must be hydro, if not then it was grown in dirt. good bud can be grown in dirt and shitty weed can be grown in water.

what im trying to say is u can smoke good organic pot and smoke good hydroponic pot and u would never know the difference, prob wouldnt even know u were smoking organic till someone points it out to u. u might think its organic from the smooth taste but that isnt limited to organic grows, u could be wrong and compliment someones chemical hydro grow.

DoctorSmoke said:

i can see how organic can improve or atleast change the taste of marijuana, but i doubt its that noticeable. there are so many factors that affect quality. where i live ppl will argue over "home grown" and "hydro", claiming hydro is better, basically if the bud looks good then it must be hydro, if not then it was grown in dirt. good bud can be grown in dirt and shitty weed can be grown in water.

what im trying to say is u can smoke good organic pot and smoke good hydroponic pot and u would never know the difference, prob wouldnt even know u were smoking organic till someone points it out to u. u might think its organic from the smooth taste but that isnt limited to organic grows, u could be wrong and compliment someones chemical hydro grow.

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I can and have noticed, most hydro has a subtle yet distinct nute/peat flavor while true organic does not. The worst of the lot is miracle-grow soil, used it many years ago when I first started. Even when flushed it tasted...well, just like miracle-grow and burned like rice krispies. Ever noticed a crackle or pop when firing up a fresh bowl?, had that as well from MG grows.

That's when I made the switch to organics, better and cheaper....well almost...worm castings can get pricey.