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Organics Vs Chemicals
BY JORGE CERVANTES
Nutrients supplied by fertilizers can be broken down into specific chemical elements whether the fertilizers are chemical or organic in origin. Is one better than the other? Maybe, but they also require different management strategies.
Chemical elements are generally altered by heat and chemical processes. Liquid and crystal fertilizers consist of elemental nutrients combined in a soluble form and are immediately available upon application for uptake by roots. Granular chemical fertilizers consist of layers of degradable resin impregnated with nutrients; the resin breaks down over time and releases the nutrients.
Exact quantities of each element in a chemical fertilizer are included in the mix, and a specific ratio of "safe nutrient levels" is fed to plants. You can find a mix for specific water conditions and plants at your local hydroponics store. Once in solution form, you can measure the overall strength of chemical nutrients with a ppm (parts per million) or EC (electrical conductivity) meter.
Organically grown cannabis has a sweeter taste because the natural elements impart many more compounds than do chemical fertilizers. You can choose to mix and manage you own organic fertilizer, but indoors this requires horticultural know-how. Outdoor organic gardens are easy to maintain because Mother Nature is on you side. Indoors, i prefer to use tried-and-true premixed organic fertilizers-Earth Juice, BioCanna, BioGenesis, BioBiz, Fox Farm, Pure Blend,-Because limited space, soil life and sanitation are major concerns. Containers full of fresh soil have little room to build and maintain "live" organic soil teeming with beneficial bacteria and microbes. Short cloned crops allow little time to cultivate the soil life. However, there are ways to utilize some organic techniques on a short-term basis and achieve excellent results.
Use new potting soil high in worm castings, peat, sand, manure, leaf mold, compost and fine dolomite lime. You can make your own soil, but remember that destuctive insects, fungi and bacteria are often present in homemade composts and soils. Store-bought organic soils such as black gold, Fox Farm and Whitney Farms are generally consistent and safe to use. Savvy growers throw away old, depleted soil and start new plants with fresh organic soil.
Organic nutrients, manure, worm castings, and blood and bone meal all work very well to increase the soil's nutrient content, but nutrients are released and available at differnt rates, and nutrient avalibility is tricky to calculate precisely. The saving grace is that organic nutrients are somewhat difficult to overapply. Organic nutrients seem to more consistently available when used in combination with one another. Usually, growers use a mix of about 20 percent worm castings with other organic agents to get a stong, readily available nitrogen base. During flowering, they fertilize with bat guano, the organic super-fertilizer.
i Prefer organic's but i dont care if i have to use chemicals.
USE COMPOST TEA!
BY JORGE CERVANTES
Nutrients supplied by fertilizers can be broken down into specific chemical elements whether the fertilizers are chemical or organic in origin. Is one better than the other? Maybe, but they also require different management strategies.
Chemical elements are generally altered by heat and chemical processes. Liquid and crystal fertilizers consist of elemental nutrients combined in a soluble form and are immediately available upon application for uptake by roots. Granular chemical fertilizers consist of layers of degradable resin impregnated with nutrients; the resin breaks down over time and releases the nutrients.
Exact quantities of each element in a chemical fertilizer are included in the mix, and a specific ratio of "safe nutrient levels" is fed to plants. You can find a mix for specific water conditions and plants at your local hydroponics store. Once in solution form, you can measure the overall strength of chemical nutrients with a ppm (parts per million) or EC (electrical conductivity) meter.
Organically grown cannabis has a sweeter taste because the natural elements impart many more compounds than do chemical fertilizers. You can choose to mix and manage you own organic fertilizer, but indoors this requires horticultural know-how. Outdoor organic gardens are easy to maintain because Mother Nature is on you side. Indoors, i prefer to use tried-and-true premixed organic fertilizers-Earth Juice, BioCanna, BioGenesis, BioBiz, Fox Farm, Pure Blend,-Because limited space, soil life and sanitation are major concerns. Containers full of fresh soil have little room to build and maintain "live" organic soil teeming with beneficial bacteria and microbes. Short cloned crops allow little time to cultivate the soil life. However, there are ways to utilize some organic techniques on a short-term basis and achieve excellent results.
Use new potting soil high in worm castings, peat, sand, manure, leaf mold, compost and fine dolomite lime. You can make your own soil, but remember that destuctive insects, fungi and bacteria are often present in homemade composts and soils. Store-bought organic soils such as black gold, Fox Farm and Whitney Farms are generally consistent and safe to use. Savvy growers throw away old, depleted soil and start new plants with fresh organic soil.
Organic nutrients, manure, worm castings, and blood and bone meal all work very well to increase the soil's nutrient content, but nutrients are released and available at differnt rates, and nutrient avalibility is tricky to calculate precisely. The saving grace is that organic nutrients are somewhat difficult to overapply. Organic nutrients seem to more consistently available when used in combination with one another. Usually, growers use a mix of about 20 percent worm castings with other organic agents to get a stong, readily available nitrogen base. During flowering, they fertilize with bat guano, the organic super-fertilizer.
i Prefer organic's but i dont care if i have to use chemicals.
USE COMPOST TEA!
i hope it makes 20ft trees 