Semantics to me. Keep it simple, you have indica, sativa, rhuderalis at a high level. You have equatorial, South American, afghani etc at a high level. You have trichomes at various levels of amber. You have canbabanoids and terpenes that could fill volumes of encyclopedic info. You have cb receptors with various attributes. You have an endless array of growing methods. Way too much info for anyone to know it all. The more I learn the less I know. All I want to offer here is the simplest and most cost-effective options I know of for those of us that want quality, medicinally effective product. I learn every day and encourage everyone to share. Nobody gains by withholding knowledge! Share what you know or think you know, inevitably someone will help improve our knowledge collectively or straighten us out when we are incorrect. Be wise, learn to learn from others mistakes rather than having to repeat our own and reinvent the wheel all the time.
You say you're here to learn and teach others yet you criticize those that are giving out information. Maybe you don't want to know the particulars of any process but there are those, myself included, that do and use that information to improve their own style.
If it's more than you want to know I suggest you stop reading whatever semantics you disagree with. You want to do everything as simply and cheaply as possible. I commend you for that. You say you want to offer the most cost effective and simplest growing methods yet anything that is described outside of what you have obviously ascertained as the only way to do things seems to be a waste of time and energy in your eyes.
Maybe someone doesn't want to have to save up a bag of crushed egg shells because its more hassle than it needs to be and the few dollars they spend on a bottle of cal/mag is easier and more worth their time than trying to grow everything from waste scraps. Maybe it would be easier to just go buy a bag of calcium pills and crush them all up. Whatever level works best for you so "best", "easiest", "simplest" are all subjective to the grower and the style they are growing. Are you also going to be critiqueing what is the best method? SOG/ScrOG/Free Grow/LST only/ Synthetic media/Natural media, etc. I'm sure most seasoned growers will tell you there is no "best" or "simplest" or "easiest". It's what works for you. If your aim is to show YOUR easiest method that YOU'VE developed then great. Show it. But to try and nail down a "best" just shows me that maybe you don't have the experience you think you do. Like I said, most seasoned growers have "grown" out of that mindset and have realized through experience that there is no "best" method just like there is no magic bullet that will double your harvest or increase your THC levels.
Honestly, I think the whole organic thing is way over blown. IMO, if you are an outdoor grower then I think developing organic soil is a great way of providing a bountiful media and excellent soil properties year over year but indoor growing the plants aren't in the soil very long and the soil is being replaced or fortified. Trying to build organic soil in a pot is an effort in futility. By the time the soil is at the level that it can support the plant on its own organically the plant is ready to harvest.
Also, when it comes to organic nutes. Once the nutrient ions, be they derived naturally or chemically , are in the rhizosphere ready to be presented to the plant they are identical in makeup. The plant doesn't know how the ion was derived nor does it care. Had I listened to people like you saying the details don't matter I would be all over organics. It sounds great to hear. My weed is organic. 99% have no real clue as to what that even means. They think it means it's cleaner. Nope. Other than whatever pesticides someone might use incorrectly there is no difference in terms of the end result.
If your issue with synthetics is how they were derived and how the high energy needed to derive them is bad for the environment let me remind you that organic fertilizers have an almost equal amount of energy expended to get it to market. Scientist have figured out a way of using lasers to derive Nitrogen out of the air much like the Bosch-Haber process used currently to derive Nitrogen at scale but their process is better for the environment as it doesn't use as much energy and it can be pinpointed to the amount used to keep soil leaching and water way contamination down to a minimum.
I commend your effort. I reject your narrow mindedness.
grandpa came from Italy with my great grandparents in the early thirties. They were farmers and similarly grandma came from Nova Scotia with similar background. I learned about gardening, raising chicken, goats, and sheep etc from them early on. I learned about how my father helped raising fighting cocks that were delivered to NY and NJ to help supplement their income in the early days. Dad still had a set of spurs that they’d put on the roosters for training. Skip forward, I smoked as a teenager but gave it up when I was 17 thinking it was bad for me all the way until dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer and a blood infection when I was 36. Mind you I never stopped growing sunflowers, tomatoes, peppers, and various root vegetables and herbs/spices throughout. When I started growing cannabis it was strictly for medicinal purposes and primarily RSO / CCO use. It was during that period I learned a great deal of growing and oil production info from folks in CA and CO primarily but also mentors from AZ and other parts of the country and world. Similar to what you described it was also a time where I picked up a lot of folklore, old wives tales and BS in general. I can only promise 2 things - I will never try to feed anyone BS and I know for a fact that the CCO can help save lives. Can is the operative word there, no guarantees but also will do no harm and at least help alleviate some of the suffering. Case in point, my dad is still alive in his 80s without ever having chemo or radiation. CCO wasn’t necessarily the only magic because a lot of other changes were made to diet and habits as well. On the flip side I have lost family to bone and lung cancers that used similar methods but they were at least alleviated from some suffering. More to follow…
I asked her what had prompted her to actually smoke weed and she said the pen had really helped her and was super convenient whenever she started to feel her chest tighten up.
