That's not far off how I look at it... I never used to be but as I have got older I find I am in love with nature. That's the main reason I want to grow organically, it's evolved over god only knows how many years, it knows what it's doing but aside from that, we're organic and I don't think we should be putting chemicals inside us. It clearly has an effect. Go to the far away places away places like up in the mountains etc, the people live for over a hundred regularly and don't have any of the fucked up diseases we have.
Industrial farming and industrial meat production is killing us all, fullstop. Sad fact is that we’re breeding so fast its the only path we have, or so we think. Chemicals are fucked up for sure but sadly they’re the only solution that seems “convenient” to us. Throw in ions that we know plants can’t grow without and let it produce.
Now if we think about it, what happens in soil is not some dark magic shit. The cow shit gets eaten by microbes and they shit ions and they die and release ions and plant takes it up. Much like feeding chemical nutrients. But the difference is, in organics, plant has a wide array of different elements coming from everywhere in relatively small but consistent doses.
So if you look at it, plant still takes up ions but in a much more naturally balanced way. Of course this applies only if your soil is balanced :) the enzymes, aminos, organic acids and many many other goodies are also present in this amazing micro cosmos we call rhizosphere. This is such a healthy living for a plant and such a happy life.
And one more important thing is, while we’re providing complex materials like composts and ewc and manure etc. the plant also chooses what it takes up to a good degree. Plant is not some inanimate object we fill with compost sludge. The way plant does this is with its root exudates. It uses this processes to favor some microbes over the others. So those microbes do their things and plant gets what it needs. Does not work with chemicals as those ions will directly go into the plant and if you have miscalcuated you will burn the shit out of it.
Anycase, if one has the option why one wouldn’t go with organics is just a mystery to me. All those goodies, humic-fulvic acids, enzymes, hormones, aminos, vitamins etc etc. Plant doesn’t “need” them to live but it wants them to be happy and healthy. I think thats why most of the problems in infirmary are from chemical dudes and hydro guys.
Wow! I kept talking and talking.
