Recent content by madodah

Exactly. If a grow medium is composed of components which provide all nutrient, micronutrient and mineral requirements for plant life cycle with no supplemental feeding required, why flush?

Nice post. Here's the official Oregon Department of Agriculture fertilizer ban list, with AN leading the pack. http://www.oregon.gov/ODA/PEST/stopsales.shtml According to those involved, this is just the start.

Superphosphate was a big name in its field. Fox Farms has lost its glow. There are still many people who purchase products based solely on marketing claims.

No different than posters who shill 'double the size of your buds' with pick a brand. Money talks.

I'm a living soil practicing advocate and supplements are of no interest other than keeping up with what that preference is doing. Oregon stopped sales of Advanced Nutrient Products (and others) due to lack of component label disclosure. A company can sell products with pesticide content in...

Have you researched the MG components? I put MG right up there with Monsanto as being purposefully environmentally destructive to gain market share. However, I'm open to opinion change, even though I'd never use MG products, and as MG is so readily available the information could benefit other...

Nice post. I've read the same information on a different forum and as mentioned in my prior post no longer use molasses other than in AACT brews. A living soil eliminates all that time expended searching for and using supplements. I'm happy to experience this particular organic forum trending...

I feel this thread has probably confused more growers new to organics than it helps. To assume a majority of growers accustomed to using bottled supplements of any type for NPK values would actually be interested in the actual science, much less the soil food web, would be highly...

You're not going to like it, but here's a quote from another forum: "During my lifetime superphosphate has never been recognized by anyone as an acceptable organic product. Sir Albert Howard wrote against its use as did J. I. and Robert Rodale. Many other organic garden writers over the past...

After a poster tells him to not let the door hit him in the ass? Who needs to put up with that type of discussion?

No, he's a knowledgeable poster with documented, successful growing experience, a formal knowledge of chemistry and no patience for ignorance.

Big pharma, big ag and others have used consumer ignorance to build massive fortunes for decades. I don't know why anyone would be surprised that snake oil peddlers are thriving in the medical marijuana market.

I was taken out of context. You are correct, 'organic' nutrient supplements are no improvement over 'synthetic' supplements as both ignore the reality of living soil by feeding the plant, not the soil. 'Nute' vendors and their fanboys have jumped on the organic bandwagon with new snake oil and...

OMRI designation has so many classification escapes and exceptions I consider it a broad initial filter between chemical and organic food quality. Oregon has far tighter state standards for organic classification. I want to know the actual producer, raw materials list(s) and production...

A very knowledgeable organic grower friend in the San Francisco Bay area tells me 'organic' is now the buzzword for CA medical marijuana patients who purchase their medicine from dispensaries. His experienced observation and testing of products sold in those dispensaries was related to me as...