Striking the right Balance in the Debate Inorganic vs Organic Plant Nutrients

With business and technology being driven by the revolution "green" these days, gardening with organic nutrients seems ideal example of sustainability: Organic nutrients are cheap, recycled, renewable, environmentally friendly, durable, and help reduce waste, provide basic food needs. However, compared with inorganic, you may find unexpected problems for these organic products can keep it in order to achieve the blue sky dreams. They can be unstable, smelly, obstructing the flow of water and attract the attention of unwanted pests rarely experienced problems with inorganic.

Organic nutrients
Organic Nutrients are something that have been or are still alive - seaweed, feathers, oatmeal, bacteria, or guano (excrement composting). Most peoples initial reaction of organic products is that they stink in its concentrated form - we're not used to these smells in urban or modern suburban life. The main limitation of these nutrients for hydroponics is that they should be changed often, and they need very clean water - much cleaner than municipal drinking water from the tap!


Biological systems can operate out of balance in many circumstances:

    Not a bad aeration (soil drying periods) or oxygen (for hydroponics)
    Water quality is poor - is heavily chlorinated, unfiltered, contains contaminants or is unbalanced pH
    The concentration of organic products is very high, which leads to gelling of nutrients which may connect the drain pad and the pump
    The temperature is too hot or humidity is very high
    The nutrients do not have enough time to build the populations of beneficial microbes - as is the case in a fish tank
    The nutritional quality is weak and unbalanced

Organic advantage is clear: better use could there be for the old oatmeal, dried seaweed, chicken feathers, bird shit and composting? Left to the environment, these nutrients are recycled. Because they were once alive, they come with all the components and micro-nutrients needed to sustain life, some probably not discovered by humans, but can be essential for the long-term health. As a reflection of their relative harmfulness pure, which would you rather eat - ammonium molybdate powder or algae? Inorganic nutrients
Inorganic nutrients are pure chemicals - phosphate, calcium nitrate, ammonium molybdate. They smell like chemicals or nothing, a fluorescent white or pink, blue or green colors. These nutrients tend to be a granulated powder, or a transparent liquid.

Inorganic nutrients are very common because they produce slightly higher growth rate than just the ground, particularly high rates of growth of the culture is grown in the same soil each year, depleting nutrients. The main problem with inorganic is that they tend to accumulate in the form of salts or runoff when used - these run offs have been proven to damage the ecosystems of large bodies of water. A third problem is that one of the essential minerals, phosphate, is a limited resource and increasingly expensive Phosphate Primer This means more distant mining operations and the environmental impact of road transport these heavy stones around.

The Middle Ground
So on the one hand they are sustainable fouling, but organic and inorganic fertilizer are great but are nutritionally unbalanced and environment. When you test the different nutrients available to a manufacturer of indoor hydroponic gardening systems, I came to the conclusion that a mixture of both organic and inorganic nutrients is best. Here's why:

    By using less organic nutrients, fouling can be completely eliminated.
    Dilute with organic and inorganic nutrients, the environmental impact is reduced and
    trace elements or caps that we do not know, but will always be present.
    In addition, organic nutrients release more slowly for the long term, while the mineral will be rapidly used for the short term.
    Accordingly, fewer changes are necessary nutrients, plants grow optimally, the taste of fruit, and the water quality or the obstruction is no longer problems.