PooToe
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Actually, in soil in general you don't really need to be as diligent on the pH as the soil has natural buffers to regulate pH.
Just to expound on my comment....
I'm not a big proponent of indoor organic gardening. I have nothing against organics. I think it is an excellent medium to grow plants in and I love that it helps in conditioning the soil to support years of healthy growth. Outdoors. My issue with indoor organic gardening is it doesn't really happen unless you have a vermicompost going or some other naturally derived medium that can provide all the plant nutrition the plant needs. Even though the bag says it's organic doesn't mean it really is. Organics are when the soil can support life from seed to harvest. I can't think of a medium we can buy that will do that. The way they make "organic" soil is to fortify the soil with amendments. That's not true organics. The soil was mechanically amended and not naturally derived. The length of time that our plants will be in "organic" soil doesn't give it enough time to truly become organic.
I got to ask questions of many Botanists and Master Growers when I worked at licensed grow ops and they all told me the same thing. At the molecular level both organic and synthetically derived nutrient ions are the same. The plant can't discern the difference. Once the plant takes up the ion there is no performance difference between the two. It doesn't make the plant healthier or better for you. Both ions make the same sugars.
The only difference between organic and synthetically derived nutrients is synthetically derived eliminates the part where the microbes and fungus break down the biomass and convert it to a soluble ion that can be taken up by the plants root system.
