Hello everyone, Please post here to keep this at the top. This thread is like our "new member welcome board". Introduce yourself please.

I would like to direct you to our "Organic Fanatic" thread. It is found here in Organic Soil to help all the new growers and to find useful information on growing your favorite plant. If you are an experienced grower and would like to add some info please do,It is actually a work in progress but there is already alot of useful information there. Please feel free to read and ask questions if you do not understand everything as some of the information is quite lengthy. I believe there will be "revised version in the works but for now good reading and good growing.

Welcome aboard,Von

ill introduce myself:

hi folks, i am irie

i have been growing organic outdoors for 10 years now (shit! i didnt realize TEN!) and i have been growing organic indoors for about 1 1/2 years, and chemi indoor for 3 years before that. i switched to organic indoor because (A) i live on on organic farm now and (B) i kept killing my plants with chemi's

i started with bio-bizz with good results, but theres no hydro store where i live and the ingredients on the bottle were just kelp and molasses. then i discovered CW and 3LB and i havent looked back since. i have been making compost teas and getting good yeilds of tasty, potent, good burning herb that is all supplied to a med-user club.

pleasure to meet you

irie-i

Hello irie-i, thanks for the intro. no one seems to stop by. I had done this to direct people to the information we are putting together since our moderator has not been around and we need some stickys to consolidate our information on organics here. Your input would be very helpful. Thanks

[frater_indo]

Hi there. frater_indo here. I'm on my first all organic grow right now and have been trying keep up with the Organic Fanatic thread.

I've grown semi-organic my first 2 crops, and after comparing my smoke with my buddie's all organic crop, I'm sold 100% organic all the way.

Thanks to all those people who have taken the time to present the info so that others can learn to grow better.

[guanoman]

Hello everyone. I'm new here, I've lurked around Overgrow and now icmag for a few years now. Reading and Keeping to myself until recently.

I started growing outdoor with Miracle grow 20-20-20 and 10-52-10 about 8 years ago. After growing in the same spots outdoor for 3 years using Miracle grow, I was getting smaller and unhealthy looking plants. Someone told me to check out the Hydroponic shop and get some 2 part Hydroponic nutrients which I did. This seemed to improve my results, so I grew with expensive "DNF" hydroponic nutes outdoor for another couple years.

About 3 years ago, I bought my first 430watt Sodium arc bulb and started growing indoor with the same DNF hydroponic nutrients. Results seemed to be good, but I could never re-use my soil. during this time maybe a year of indoor growing, I saw the Advanced Nutrients Advertisements "everyone can probably guess where" and went out and spent $300 on AN nutes. I ended up with about the same yields and growth rates as DNF 2 part, but I was noticing what seemed to be Phosphorus deficiencies. And $300 for a couple grows for the same results as DNF for $40 a grow was complete insanity! Also dumping $40 or $50 worth of potting mix per grow was/is not economical in my opinion.

So here I am in the Organic Soil forum diving head first into Organic techniques. I hope I don't bug everyone to much with my newbie questions about organics.

My trial organic run seems to be doing good this round after a bumpy start burning my plants with Indonesian bat guano. I am already convinced Organics is the only way to grow.

thanks for all the help so far and thanks in advance for the future.

take care everyone. And smoke a fat one

[jasonk]

Hey everyone, Im just starting up my first indoor grow and organic seems like the best option. Im sure me and none of my friends have ever smoked organice so Im guessing we're in for a treat once I get going. Ill be lurking aroud asking questions. Seeds are going into pots tonight. WOO

[jaykush]

hi im jaykush....

im a organicaholic and i smoke too much pot. see ya around.

Hey everyone... just saying hi I'm new here but learned some good stuff on OG over the past couple years. I've been growing organic... for the most part anyway. Using BOG's method for the past several grows with pretty good results.

Later

Hello, frater-indo, guanoman, jasonk, jaykush and urabogart. Welcome to Organics. Jaykush, thanks for all the great info so far. See all of you around. Good growing.

I was a chem farmer switched To partial organics. Then i was part organic. Now i'm almost all organic except for some 9-59 -9 that i foliar feed just with onset of 12/12