When I said there's nothing organic about me, I meant that I don't eat organic food (not in the budget) or grow in living soil (I don't have the space to store and cook or a place to make teas and such), or use organic fertilizer. I didn't mean to demean anyone growing the organic way!
I don't use chemical pesticides, working with oils, bacteria, DE, and the like. But I am using synthetic nutes because it's much simpler for me. Also, I have read that when a plant takes up a nitrogen molecule, it's the same molecule whether it came from bacterial digestion or the breakdown of ammonium nitrate. The plant doesn't know from organic, so it's much simpler for me to use nutrients rather than trying to build the perfect water-only soil.