Hey there just thought I'de clear the air about organic and synthetic nutes. The difference between organic and synthetic, also called chemical, fertilizers is the origin. Organic fertilizers come from plants, or from previously living animals, or their escrements. For example, manure, blood meal, bone meal, etc are also considered organic fertilizers. Organic fertilizers have in common that they can not be taken up by plants directly. First the complex organic molecules must be broken down by soil microbes before the fertilizer nutrients can be taken up by plant roots.
Chemical fertilizers are so-called because they - often - dissolve into their chemical elements (such as nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, etc) as soon as they come in contact with water. They typically do not need microbes to break down the bonds between the molecules before they can be taken up by the plant roots. Most chemical fertilizer compounds are salts. Examples are potassium nitrate, calcium phosphate, ammonium sulfate, etc. Plants can only take up very basic elements in simple form (small molecules). Examples are nitrogen (as ammonium NH4+ or Nitrate NO3-). The nitrogen in large complex molecules must first be released by microbes in the soil to be available to plants, whereas water will typically release nitrogen in chemical fertilizers. So basically same shit different origin. You MUST flush if you want smooth smoke with that killer MJ taste. Good Luck,
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