Quote Originally Posted by zebracakes
i'm sorry to say, and i dont mean to be rude, but
NEVER
ever ever ever ever use miracle grow. if your going to spend extra money on organic soil then using the most chemicle ridden plant food (at least i think) is a bit counterproductive. i dont think it will neccisarly hurt your plants but the chemicles contained inside miracle grow will get inside your girls (duh) and have to potential to become carcinogenic (cancer) and make the smoke more harsh to the throat.
you have a good idea buying plant food specifically for tomatoes, but it should really be organic.
as for your "burning" ive been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out what that could be but as of yet i havent come up with anything.
wait..perhaps humidity of the growroom?? i dont know.
keep it going man im still a bit of a noob (im on round two) and it looks like you could produce some pretty smokeable herb.
I've never seen anything with any evidence that miracle grow or any other chemical fertilizer leaves anything in your plants.

Organic fertilizer is chemicals as well, it's just derived differently.

The only real difference between organic and non organic is that organic gardening feeds the soil, which in turn feeds the plants as it breaks down into the chemicals the plant needs. It can take time for those nutrients to become available though.

Inorganic simply supplies those nutrients directly in water soluble form, meaning the plant can use it immediately, can burn easier because it is immediately available and leaves the medium as deficient as it was before, and builds up salts faster as they are more salt based.

So basically MG is just bad for the soil for long term growing, adding salts over time and not helping the soils biology but if folks are using new soil every grow, I don't see an issue.

As for leaving any "bad chemicals" in your plant, until I see a study that says so, I just don't buy it.

I'm not ragging on organic or anything, I just like truth and I have seen no evidence an inorganic fert leaves anything in a plant that an organic one doesn't.

I'm open to be shown otherwise though, got any links or studies that show that it leaves anything in a plant? I've never been able to find one and I have looked.