Lol thanks bro I feel like I cheated my first time bc I used Advanced Nutes and really bought into their bullshit...you can definitely produce good LOOKING buds with those kinds of regimens, but the flavor is nowhere near where I expected it to be. That is what pushed me to try different things.
I also ended up spending more on soil and nutrients the first run than I did kis soil and ingredients for compost tea the second run (without the brewer of course lol) and this soil and the ingredients for tea will last for much longer than those bottles of advanced that were already running out after the first run....I can recycle my kis soil for up to 5 years with amendments or kis nutrient pack (I think it treats like a yard of soil...which is a lot lol) after each cycle. Off track a little bit but bottom line is that it is much cheaper. Hard to see at first, but when you really start working with these styles of gardening it really makes a lot of sense lol.
The one piece of advice I can give to an organic (or general gardening) newbie much like myself: listen to the podcast series that Tad Hussey created. The Cannabis Cultivation and Science Podcast. There are like over 50 episodes now so I understand it can seem a little daunting...at least give the first 5 (really the first 8) episodes a listen and it will open your eyes to the hidden world of gardening.
Sorry if my use of parentheses is a little whack lol just got a bit fried and got carried away I think :smoking:
Edit: also thought I was just replying to someone completely different lmao
Yeah, i mean the salts do their job, but I'm sure full organics is gonna be way better. Yes, the initial outlay is a little steep, especially over in the UK where the whole organics thing hasn't really taken off too much.
For me it's mostly just that it appeals so much more in the sense that you can actually really get a feel for the plants and get a little more connected to them. Mixed up nutes every day make me feel more like mad scientist and less like a gardener.
The long term price is of course a factor too!
I've been listening to that podcast (although less so as a lot of it goes over my head) along with the Podcast and of course Adam Dunn which has got me sold on the merits of organics, but as I say, picking the things up in the uk is more expensive and more difficult to source. I really jive with the guys at Dragonfly Earth Medicine so I'll give some of their tea mixes a go, they're surprisingly affordable over here when you can find them, they must have a decent distributor now.
The plan is to finish off the autos in the tent now, grow some sativas in there with the bottled nutes, finish up the other tent of Holy Grail Kush on bottled nutes, then grow another round of the HGK in organics to see the difference, then if it goes well, switch the other tent to organics too.
Easing myself in!
