Posted on 11/14/2017 2:31:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
There are alternate organic standards. People who are up and this stuff (I am not one of them) know what they want to look for. Could you imagine observant Jews trusting a government standards committee to certify kosher foods?
If chemicals contain the Element Carbon, by definition, it’s ORGANIC!
Hydroponic is about as ‘organic’ as you can get.
I have eaten hydroponic tomatoes and they are excellent!.................
Id be more impressed with the usda if they hadn’t approved that high fructose corn syrup crap. Just follow the money.
Seems like the idea behind “organic” is no chemical-based, or factory- produced fertilizers. And it also seems to me that all of the liquids in a hydroponic system would be just that—out of a factory. Although I suppose a guy could run water through a big tank of cow manure or rotted fish and get the hydroponics without the factory’s involvement.
The thing it seems none of the organic earth people seem to understand though is that the plant doesn’t really care if it gets its nitrogen from a dead fish or from out of a plastic bag produced by Phillips Petroleum. Nitrogen is nitrogen.
People are really dumb. They'd rather have tractors and fertilizers and "summer only" vegies. Just dumb.
Whats wrong with Hydroponic growing ...??
All the pot growers use it.......
There are a fair number of them on the South side of Chicago at this point and it's becoming a burgeoning industry. I was wondering how tomato's being sold at my local grocer are still "locally grown" when growing season is over, and now I know!
Energy efficient LED lighting makes hydroponic growing more economically viable.
Okay, so to her, organic farming is not a method with principles, it's a club or a union, or maybe a cult. I thought it was about growing healthy food to benefit your paying customers by leaving out the garbage and the chemicals, while still coming up with good, ripe fruit and vegetables.
My youngest son was talking about hydroponics the other day and said the same thing: LED Lighting is why Hydroponics is taking off in such a big way.
I must be getting old, I can't keep up with this stuff anymore. Maybe it really is time to turn the reigns over to someone younger .....
OH HELL NO!
Aquaponics - growing fish and then filtering the water through the Hydroponics system to clean the nitrates out of the water.
“here are entire warehouse districts across the country that have sat empty for years that are being converted to hydroponic growing facilities.”
I’m trying to do just that in my town. My town is receptive of the idea - fully.
My bank account is not. But I bank at E.F. Nuthin’ so that’s a huge hurdle.
“And it also seems to me that all of the liquids in a hydroponic system would be just that—out of a factory. “
The way it’s done is a bit more sophisticated than “running water” through a tank of cow manure:
“organic fertilizer is degraded into inorganic nutrients by microorganisms in the hydroponic solution via ammonification and nitrification. The microorganisms are cultured with a method of multiple parallel mineralization. The culture solution can be used as the hydroponic solution.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_hydroponics
Only free range tomatoes! /s
The hydroponic solution has to have the correct mix of minerals in the water.
I’ve had some hydroponic tomatoes that had no taste at all.
As someone who’s wife owned and operated a hydroponics store: To a plant N is Nitrogen, P is Phosphorous, and K is Potassium. To a plant, it doesn’t care where it gets it from. Or any of the trace nutrients as well. Using raw nutrients are as organic as anything else.
I agree.. Hydroponics are terrific and should not be disqualified but the hard working , back breaking Organic farmers do not want the competition.
That being said, our bodies Need the minerals from the Earth as well, there is that.
I am all organic, no GMO’s, grow as much of my own as I can in a limited season.
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