How not to be a salt farmer or a wasteful grower tips

Another tincture I recommend, habanero. Just put in jar with vodka and let brew. Strain and add to tea, soup, rice etc. great for cardiovascular and cancer prevention etc.
 
Grove bags! I absolutely love them and endorse them to the point I bought a surplus to share and give away. I don’t know the owners or have any shares in the business yet (lol) but I will certainly be promoting them and giving away free samples on their behalf. Why, it’s that awesome of a product I want them to have the success they deserve.
 
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You're probably asking the wrong person that question. I'm not a big proponent of indoor organics. Not that it isn't good but to develop it for indoor growing, IMO, is fruitless. It takes too long to truly develop the soil to be organic. Organics means that the biomass breakdown will support all the plants nutritional needs. To get to that point that you've developed the soil to have a microbial and fungal community that can fully support your plant takes a long time. Way longer than the time the plants spend in the pot. For outdoor I would do it wholeheartedly but not for indoor.

To your question, you usually do a top dress after week 5 - 6 when the soil has been depleted of nutrients. Even though most of the cannabis soils will claim to be organic they aren't really as they've been mechanically amended and not naturally amended through biomass breakdown.

I've done a few "organic" grows and not noticed a difference in either.

While the way that they are derived is different, organic and synthetic nutrient ions present the same so there is no real difference between the two at the molecular level. The plant can't discern which is which.
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I get what you're saying. Indoor organics do require a lot of time, and with the plant's limited life cycle, maintaining that kind of soil can be challenging. It also raises the question of whether the results are worth it. Thanks for explaining — maybe for indoor grows it makes more sense to stick with proven, quicker methods.
 
Once you have your soil and compost going well it works fine indoors as well, at least for me it has….
 
Still on vacation, and yesterday started with a flat tire, followed by a dead battery, and then a seized caliper. Good times.
 
budnoob3 said:
Once you have your soil and compost going well it works fine indoors as well, at least for me it has….
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If you have to amend your soil mechanically then it isn't really organic. I'm sure your process works very well as evidenced by the pics you've posted. I like your process and may use elements of it but it isn't actually growing organically if we are going to use that word to label the process. Maybe I'm just being a grammar nazi but I like to understand what a word actually means so that everyone has a basis of understanding and can make judgements and determinations based on what that meaning is.

I understand the basis of your thread is to bypass all the store bought stuff and use what you have at hand. Your results speak for themselves. Me personally? I like elements in my grows that I can quantify through numbers. This sets up a process of repeatability along with being able to drill down if there is an issue that crops up. Your process doesn't really have a way to quantify what you are actually giving them. You also don't really have a way to see if what you are giving them wasn't raised with the chemicals that you are trying to avoid. Unless you are able to only give it organically grown food scraps and other amendments you can't be sure if those scraps contain hormones and other things that you don't want in your plants.

Maybe my time working in LGO's has put more emphasis on production growing rather than personal grows but I believe many of the practices are done for a reason that is beneficial to growing overall.

I haven't visited a dispensary in years but the ones I've been to I've never seen an "organic" section like you see in supermarkets. Every LGO I worked at used salt based fertilizers for their grows. In food production the only real benefit in regard to the actual food itself is that it MIGHT have a higher nutritional value. Organic and Synthetically grown weed has been lab tested and no real differences can be found between the two.

Where organics really makes a big difference is in soil conditioning outdoors. Also, the need for fertilizers is reduced greatly making it better environmentally.
 
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