so i've been growing chemical for about a year now(technically ive always grown chemical, just started growing again after a several year break), i use lucas formula, maxi bloom at 1/4 to 1/2 strength only. i flush for the last month of my 12 week bloom, and ive never had an issue with the flavor or texture of my herb, untill i started smoking a friends organic stuff...i really really dig the earthy tones that all his strains seem to have, something ive missed in my own product, his flavors also seem a lot more complex than mine...i don't go overboard with my smoking so my tolerance is always pretty low, so potency isn't as important as taste too me.
ive also been really interested in totally live organic growing and those premixed formulas that you only feed water throughout budding...i grow in beds and recycle my soil over and over so that would be really ideal for me.
so here is my problem, i'm at about week 3 of budding(chemical), and my new genetics just arived (c99, skunk special). my plan is to spend the next 2 months growing them into moms, so that they will be ready to clone as soon as this next batch is finished, i also plan to dump all my old moms, soil, and everything else i can as i have a case of the mosaic pretty bad from my chemdog ibl's...the reason i haven't switched sooner is because my recycled soil is all tap water and chemicals, and i'm pretty sure it's never gonna be organic again, but i didn't want to deal with sneaking more huge ass bags of soil into my apartment. this time around i have 2 months to get 3 bags of ocean forest into my place, i'm sure i'll find a good time eventually, but for now i have seeds germinating, and the rapid rooters wont hold them for long.
if i were to say, plant them in small pots of my recycled chem soil, and raised them as moms on maxi bloom, then clone them and transplant into a TLO setup, would it be defeeting the purpose? would the bit of chemicals in the clone make the resulting buds not truely organic? i know maxi bloom really well, and id almost prefer to keep my long term moms on it just so i don't have to worry about them much, but if it's going to effect the organics of my grow i may be forced to sneek new soil in early...
ive also been really interested in totally live organic growing and those premixed formulas that you only feed water throughout budding...i grow in beds and recycle my soil over and over so that would be really ideal for me.
so here is my problem, i'm at about week 3 of budding(chemical), and my new genetics just arived (c99, skunk special). my plan is to spend the next 2 months growing them into moms, so that they will be ready to clone as soon as this next batch is finished, i also plan to dump all my old moms, soil, and everything else i can as i have a case of the mosaic pretty bad from my chemdog ibl's...the reason i haven't switched sooner is because my recycled soil is all tap water and chemicals, and i'm pretty sure it's never gonna be organic again, but i didn't want to deal with sneaking more huge ass bags of soil into my apartment. this time around i have 2 months to get 3 bags of ocean forest into my place, i'm sure i'll find a good time eventually, but for now i have seeds germinating, and the rapid rooters wont hold them for long.
if i were to say, plant them in small pots of my recycled chem soil, and raised them as moms on maxi bloom, then clone them and transplant into a TLO setup, would it be defeeting the purpose? would the bit of chemicals in the clone make the resulting buds not truely organic? i know maxi bloom really well, and id almost prefer to keep my long term moms on it just so i don't have to worry about them much, but if it's going to effect the organics of my grow i may be forced to sneek new soil in early...