still clinging on to that self-anointed title 'Professor?'
did you not learn anything from the last thread??
OK, this isn't necessary. Let's debate things and we might all learn something.....
still clinging on to that self-anointed title 'Professor?'
did you not learn anything from the last thread??
Growing organically implies having a living soil.
I gave you some cause you really are attached to it...lol. I have 600 posts and only 3 bars...is that OK?Like I care about my rep in a pot forum. lol
What I got out of Suby's post is it refers to a living 'medium'. That's the way I interpreted it considering some discussion in this thread is about soilless and even there that's up to debate as to what that really is.WRONG and welcome to the future of indoor organics. Growing organic can be done in soil-less, soil, and even hydro these days. A "living soil", by which you really mean a true soil, is not the only way to grow organic Cannabis.
I gave you some cause you really are attached to it...lol. I have 600 posts and only 3 bars...is that OK?
Suby is back...WooHoo! Kind of on the same page with you on that one. Bottled organic nutes still require microlife to make them available. As for pushing plants to the max my experience is if you have your program dialed in regarding building your medium properly then you can easily match organic soilless yields.
What I got out of Suby's post is it refers to a living 'medium'. That's the way I interpreted it considering some discussion in this thread is about soilless and even there that's up to debate as to what that really is.
& some attra horticulture technical notesSoilless culture is an artificial means of
providing plants with support and a reservoir for
nutrients and water. The simplest and oldest method
for soilless culture is a vessel of water in which
inorganic chemicals are dissolved to supply all of the
nutrients that plants require. Often called solution
culture or water culture, the method was originally
termed hydroponics (i. e., "water working") by W. F.
Gericke in the 1930s. Over the years, hydroponics
has been used sporadically throughout the world as a
commercial means of growing both food and
ornamental plants. Today, it is used widely in
research facilities as a technique for studying plant
nutrition. Various modifications of pure-solution
culture have occurred. Gravel or sand is sometimes
used in soilless systems to provide plant support, and
retain some nutrients and water. The retention of
nutrients and water can be further improved through
the use of spaghnum peat, vermiculite, or bark chips.
These are the most commonly used materials, but
others - such as rice hulls, bagasse (sugarcane
refuse), sedge peat, and sawdust - are used
sometimes as constituents in soilless mixes. Straw
bales have been used as growing medium in England
and Canada. Rockwool (porous stone fiber) is used
in Europe, but there is little experience with it in this
country.
Since the major constituent of the media in
artificial growing systems may be solid or liquid, it is
appropriate to use the term soilless culture in
reference to this general type of growing system and
reserve the term hydroponics for those in which
water is the principal constituent. Soilless culture
methods may thus be classified as either solid- or
liquid-medium systems.
People come here to get away from bottles and bought soil mixes. All you do is push Canna products, on every website I have seen you on and your blog. You should be getting paid, by Canna. If you aren't already.
Easily.Soil life is still key, which is why I have a hard time with hydro organics. How can soil-life live on perlite or rockwool?
To quote Milhouse:I'm just a dork though and can't offer you anything.
So you don't miss my edit...
What I think is a great way to go for organic hydro is use a separate biofilter...just like they do in aquariums and I'm talking 100% organic hydro and not some of the products that contain some salts. Absolutely 'inert' materials can support a large population of microcritters...just like BioBalls for aquariums. Microcritters just need a surface to 'attach' to and create a bioslime to aid in that process and that's part of the reason for the biofilter...more surface area. I saw one grower add a 5 gallon pail to the top of his res filled with bioballs and would recirc through the biofilter.
JJSLet's debate things and we might all learn something.....
JJS
I'm learning quite a bit actually. Things like it's probably a good idea that the bar for becoming a board certified oncologist is pretty high.
The bar for becoming a self-proclaimed professor of cannabis cultivation not so high - if one exists at all.
Ain't this a wonderful country?
CC
OK, this isn't necessary. Let's debate things and we might all learn something.....
.....I was invited back here by VG, ....
respectfully i would disagree. to teach something and call yourself a Professor - when you are no such thing - is quite simply a deception.
Similarly to call your weed 'Veganic' and sell it at a premium - when the medium you grew it in contains bonemeal - is also a deception.
Matts insistence in calling himself a Professor is the main thing which has derailed the debate all along, not so much by myself because i opted out of the last thread. I think the thread would run smoother is the OP wasnt using a falsehood to bolster his credentials.
you do like putting words into my mouth don't you matt (lol from rize). actually all i said was that i didnt think a separate 'soil-less organic' sub-forum was a very good idea.