Wasn't going to but I've got to ask are you from California?
Thank you for taking the time to write that I'm always looking to go fully organic and going fully organic does mean putting in more work so I think I may actually go with the bio biz it sounds like both companies are a little deceptive when it comes to organic as far as high metals go and I think we can all agree no one wants to eat drink smoke or ingest any heavy metals haha.
I know what you mean about the 20 year old product I did a little research last night you know how it is sometimes you get bored and then YouTube and Google come along haha.
Nope! I just use that website a lot lately. I only wanted to point out the heavy metal angle because I was once a fresh faced young urban farmer hoping to produce the cleanest, dankest buds possible until I found out the dirty secret about the heavy metal load in organics. Don't get me wrong, it's a universal problem in American agricultural soils, mineral salt fertilizers, and organic fertilizers-with a few exceptions. My thoughts are, from a risk reduction standpoint, we should be more concerned about heavy metal accumulation than pesticide residues. I thought that by purchasing organic fertilizers I'd be doing something generally "good" for my body and the planet, when it was actually a huge downgrade from the mineral salt fertilizers I was using-Maxibloom- in terms of heavy metal content.
Sorry, I actually don't know very much about Bio Bizz other than reviewing it's heavy metal content. I've seen some nice grow journals using it, but honestly, I'm not a fan of bottled nutrients in general. I can see the appeal to a new grower, but eventually, we all put down the bottles and switch to dry fertilizers or homemade soil mixes + amendments. Sorry, didn't mean to be a negative nancy and drop a bomb on your thread-if you ever want to look into other ways of growing organically without the bottles, this is a great thread https://forum.grasscity.com/threads/no-till-gardening-revisited.1400505/ but even if you follow the soil recipe here, I check everything in it for heavy metals. I've had to replace some ingredients with substitutions-for example, there is no ground kelp that isn't shockingly high in arsenic. I know a person with a small commercial grow that has had batches of his product rejected due to failed heavy metal testing-arsenic in particular-and it turned out to be the huge amount of kelp meal he uses. Just an fyi, you CAN find liquid kelp that is free of arsenic though, so it must be removed during the extraction process. Anyway, good luck!
It's just that you are the second piercing to say something about heavy metals in nectar of the Gods I was showing this
and talking about making some hash out of some Jack hair and they said something about it
Oh yeah, NFTG uses some extraction method for kelp that leaves a lot of the arsenic in. Look up Bloom Khaos (i think it's called) in that database, it's almost as high as ground kelp. Arsenic in seaweed has been linked to cancer in Japan, but those studies don't really prove a causal relationship, but still, if you have the choice between some arsenic or no arsenic, why not go with none? Cadmium is even worse, there is no "safe" amount of cadmium in fertilizers. We'll probably never know how many cancers are caused by cadmium in our agricultural soils. There is some interesting research linking cadmium in broccoli to breast cancers. Broccoli is a dynamic bio-accumulator, like cannabis, so it really sucks up the trace amounts of cadmium in our soil. It's so freaking sad, all these health conscious women out there eating broccoli every day, even ORGANIC broccoli, and increasing their risk of breast cancer.
I'm definitely looking to understand plants better and if that means I have to put down my crutch of bottles so I can understand how the microorganisms and all of it is really alive in the soil and if you know what you're adding and when you should add it then the sky is the limit. One day lol
That sounds awful no joke no arsenic for me or other chemicals please I know I'm probably talking out of my ass right now but as little as I do know I hear look for the vegan blend of organics whether it be dry or bottled that's the one true organic method. Or so I'm told ha.
I just bought this bottle today!
