ThaMagnificent
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Cannabis's chemistry needs are a lot different during flower.
This is 100% a grow-bro myth. It is nonsense that plants need you to feed them the 'correct' nutrients at the 'correct' time so that they don't eat the wrong thing. Plants have evolved to uptake nutrients as needed (via signaling using amino acids). Nowhere in nature are plants deprived of certain nutrients at certain times - Good soil contains an abundance of all micro and macro nutrients at all times, and the plants take what they need. Plants never have and never will need a human to regulate their nutrient uptake.
Look at commercial tomato production - They'd laugh in your face if you told them you needed a special nute formula for veg and special nute formula for bloom. In terms of nutritional needs, cannabis and tomatoes are virtually identical.
Feed your plants a well balanced nutrient solution for their entire life cycle. Anything else is someone trying to sell you snake oil.
Really? And your example is commercial tomato growers. LOL
Your comment is only true IF the soil has all the elements the plants need, and since all soil based commercial tomato farms grow in depleted soils with no micros, aminos, enzymes... is a big reason why commercially grown tomatoes taste like crap. The other being they are not vine ripened, not that it matters when the sweetening nutrients aren't present.
oh BTW, hydro allows the grower to adjust the 2 dissimilar nutrient profiles, and add amendments as needed. In flower- less N and more P & K, the opposite in veg
But hey if it's working for you...
I'm talking about commercial hydro greenhouse tomatoes grown in inert medium, not soil.
I'm talking about commercial hydro greenhouse tomatoes grown in inert medium, not soil.
And you think their medium doesn't need tweaking? I shop at Whole foods and stopped buying their organic tomatoes because they have NO flavor
This is 100% a grow-bro myth. It is nonsense that plants need you to feed them the 'correct' nutrients at the 'correct' time so that they don't eat the wrong thing. Plants have evolved to uptake nutrients as needed (via signaling using amino acids). Nowhere in nature are plants deprived of certain nutrients at certain times - Good soil contains an abundance of all micro and macro nutrients at all times, and the plants take what they need. Plants never have and never will need a human to regulate their nutrient uptake.
Look at commercial tomato production - They'd laugh in your face if you told them you needed a special nute formula for veg and special nute formula for bloom. In terms of nutritional needs, cannabis and tomatoes are virtually identical.
Feed your plants a well balanced nutrient solution for their entire life cycle. Anything else is someone trying to sell you snake oil.
Commercial tomatoes taste bland and lack flavor, likely nutrition too. Homegrown in live soil has a full mouth watering flavor. This goes for most commercial crops.
Clearly simple NPK is enough for healthy looking plants buy anyones tastebuds can easily see the plant can and will eat more. And improve in quality.
Read my last post - It is a scientific fact that when blinded, people cannot tell the difference between conventional and organically produced produce. Period. You may have convinced yourself this is true, but it is demonstrably false.
Commercial tomatoes taste bland and lack flavor, likely nutrition too. Homegrown in live soil has a full mouth watering flavor. This goes for most commercial crops.
Clearly simple NPK is enough for healthy looking plants buy anyones tastebuds can easily see the plant can and will eat more. And improve in quality.
You may be right? Although I highly doubt it. I have seen so many side by sides and so often the organic has a more full flavor. So many people ask about the flavor before they even here the word organic. I can identify GH grown herb just by its lack of flavor. So I not against the possibility of being wrong. I just feel I have more than enough personal experience to know better.
You can doubt it all you want, but facts are facts. This has been studied under carefully controlled conditions and it is a fact that people cannot tell a difference between conventional and organic when they don't know which is which. They'll swear up and down they can tell a difference when they know beforehand what is what.
You are engaging in confirmation bias. Your personal experience is subject to 1000s of flaws in human perception and isn't a reliable way to understand the world as it actually is.
I can virtually guarantee that your 'testing' did not involve blinding. I sincerely doubt that you even know how most of the herb you smoke is grown. You're simply telling yourself that something is 'hydro' when it sucks and 'organic' when it's good.
I'm a consultant for both 100% organic soil gardens and 100% salt based hydro gardens, so I am regularly around both. Quality has very little to do with nutes and almost everything to do with environment and handling.