My current grow style is primarily organic. I don't bother much with most folks ideas on organics, I get frustrated with the near religious levels of faith proselytizing some folks promoting organics do. It fucking hurts my brain sometimes as I try to comb fact from fantasy. My advice to any grower is to find a grow style you enjoy that helps you meet your goals, and filter out any dogma others might be trying to feed you. New growers, find an experienced guy to emulate. Eventually you'll gain the experience necessary to do things your way, and once you start feeling the confidence to try something new that you want to try go for it. This pretty much applies to any grow style. I personally do organics while trying to reduce my carbon load on the environment. I try to get my materials local, I look for waste byproducts that will benefit my grow, while helping to reduce carbon load. I have an earthworm farm that I recycle much of my household wastes, that then become primary nutrient sources for my garden. I used to do super soil. I thought really hard about it, and though I think its beneficial, I also kind of think it's a waste. I recycle my soil, roots left in to decompose, and I ammend with a number of things, and let my recycled soil cook awhile. I've been liking the idea of planting some legume green manure over my recycled soil for nitrogen fixation, I think I'll be giving that a go soon, and I think I may use a small clover species for a living mulch during grows in the future. I bubble up compost tea with my earth worm compost, and feed about every couple of weeks, and I am really looking into making fermented plant fertilizers using local, natural plant materials. So for me I am really enjoying the process of growing organically, I'm trying to reduce my environmental impact by reutilizing wastes, and I spend very, very, little in grow materials overall. My personal opinion is that you should match your grow style to what you enjoy, what works for you financially, and what helps you meet your goals. I used to like to really apply technique during grow, such as training, building structure, so on. Now I grow more as a facilitator, and take a less active role, observing, smelling, enjoying, while the real work is done by the plants and microbes. So this is what works for me, and I think is working quite well at that.