Cannabis is the easiest plant on earth to observe the difference between natural biodigestion and 'coma patient' salt injections.
Smoke dro, that rinkydink = netflix and copypaste childish memes to reddit
Smoke organic, that ranky dank = ride a bike to a location you want to explore.
You simply don't get the sugars and alcohols or a quality resin profile whatsoever with salts. Science can eat my ass, this is real world observation of Cannabis vapor, not some propaganda for Marinol or a Monsanto tomatoe study.
I've never seen hydro that improves with a cure or can even hold up to long term storage, while organic always gets better. Oh wait I take that back. Some overfed hydro does improve slightly as the nutes break down.
When I sold organic people would regularly call up saying the bud was getting better and better. The one time I got ahold of some quality salt grown weed (by a very famous forum grower) I couldn't even move it. It blasted some amazingly white bho tho. Thank God that craze was just starting or I'd still be sitting on lbs of dro to this day.
Hydro growers have the same level of understanding of the cure as custies, often refrigerating their bud to try clinging to simple terpene smells that organic bud has during veg, before the real dankness takes hold. And many in fact do mistake the smell of synthetic nutes in the plant for "gas
terpenes" even when it tastes horrid and doesn't provide a fuelly Cannabis experience, both hydro growers and smokers commonly hold this revealing misinterpretation of salt weed,so much so that most younger people don't even know what a weed high is. Same demographic who view Sativa as the Cannabis equivalent of ODouls beer.
Not all hydro is bad smoke but none of it is great smoke and lots of it churns the stomach no matter how well it's flushed of its petrochemicals. Growing organic is not hard, heavy metal levels is literally thw only contaminant to worry about and there's plenty of predigested organic liquids on the market.
Hydro has 2 purposes; to lower quality standards and to profit off of distillate pens.