General Organics vs General Hydroponics

General Organics GO Box on the left, General Hydroponics Flora series on the right. At 4 wk growth 1 wk flower, Flora is taller by 7 inches.




The root system for the Flora series was more developed than in the organic system.

+ rep nice post

What I'm really interested in is blind testing the final product. I want to know myself if the difference is apparent from the buds. The chemical based line has the edge on growth, but will the organic taste better?

Fingers crossed the waterfarms keep things going, have to head out Wed for a few days, going to fill them up and hope all goes well.

hey leonardo i would be willing to bet if you made a beneficial microbe tea and ran it on the organic line you would see a major boost in root production and overall health and vigour too. they are easy and cheap to make

Good idea 2easy, I want to finish this one plain and see what happens, but as soon as it's done I want to start another. With and without compost tea sounds like an excellent trial.

Leonardo de Garden said:

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General Organics GO Box on the left, General Hydroponics Flora series on the right. At 4 wk growth 1 wk flower, Flora is taller by 7 inches.


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The root system for the Flora series was more developed than in the organic system.

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You will always get bigger and more using synthetics VS organics. When you use synthetic fertilizer (flora, etc) the fertilizers are already in the final form that the plants use, no conversion necessary. When you use organic ferts, bacteria must change the fertilizer into a usable form before the plant can take it up. That is the difference. I prefer fert that is already in the form plants use.

GreenThumb, I agree with you that chemicals supply the nutrients in a more available form than organics, and I'm not surprised that the chemical plant is larger. What I want to know, is how much larger, and if there is a noticeable difference in the harvested buds.

what strain are you working with?

i have tried GO in a waterfarm, and it didnt perform as well as it does in a brewed soil feeding. IMO

the stretch would be a concern to me, when it comes to getting results in a VS.
suppose that could change later when it comes down to it and seeing the final results.

GreenThumbSucker said:

You will always get bigger and more using synthetics VS organics. When you use synthetic fertilizer (flora, etc) the fertilizers are already in the final form that the plants use, no conversion necessary. When you use organic ferts, bacteria must change the fertilizer into a usable form before the plant can take it up. That is the difference. I prefer fert that is already in the form plants use.

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I would have to disagree. I out-yield a few friends who use chem ferts.
More often than not, chem may get the advantage, but not in every case.

GreenThumbSucker said:

You will always get bigger and more using synthetics VS organics. When you use synthetic fertilizer (flora, etc) the fertilizers are already in the final form that the plants use, no conversion necessary. When you use organic ferts, bacteria must change the fertilizer into a usable form before the plant can take it up. That is the difference. I prefer fert that is already in the form plants use.

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well i love nearly any side by side comparison so i will be watching

superstoner1 said:

what strain are you working with?

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Purple Lady.

Leonardo de Garden said:

What I'm really interested in is blind testing the final product. I want to know myself if the difference is apparent from the buds. The chemical based line has the edge on growth, but will the organic taste better?

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I'm willing to bet the non-organic turns out better all around, taste, potency and yield.

i LOVE my GO line.. final product absolutely tastes delicious. ill be watching to see the final blind smoke report

Going to be a while before I can get to that part, they are just now starting to set flowers. I've heard a lot of different opinions, with fervent advocates of both extremes, but I want to know for myself, so I'm trying to find out.

i hear ya... i dunno i deviate a lil here n there suppliment with other nutes mainly i use /add liquinox to my regiment too. its not an organic nute but my stuff tastes dank.

UPDATE: Flowering week 3



Chemical on left, organic on right




GH Flora on left, GO box on right. Grown in drip/dwc hybrid (WaterFarm)



Chemical



Organic

oh oh organic is falling behind lol.

i still think the organics would do better with a good beneficial tea supplement or better still brew the nutes for 48hrs with bennies before they even hit the res

2easy said:

oh oh organic is falling behind lol.

i still think the organics would do better with a good beneficial tea supplement or better still brew the nutes for 48hrs with bennies before they even hit the res

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Teas are absolutely on the list of things I want to try out. I plan on running a series of tests one after the other.

Leonardo de Garden said:

Good idea 2easy, I want to finish this one plain and see what happens

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That's why this isn't really an accurate contest. without the beneficials to colonize the root mass, the hydro is gonna destroy the organics every time. the organic nutes weren't designed for a hydro setup either. cool idea though. would like to see a side to side with soil or coco with beneficials. might try it myself someday