Fox Farm has heavy metals? Look what i found

I was reading the back label on my bottle of tiger bloom and it says in fine print and the botttom for metals content go to www.aapfco.org/metals.htm. Now i'm no expert on plant nutrients but some of the heavy metals i found dont sound too good. i know some of them are in very small amounts. I dont know what to think about this. Is this normal? I just want to hear everybody's thoughts on it considering i have read that fox farm's nutes are organic. Thoughts?


Here is the chart

Heavy Metals (ppm)AnalysisArsenic (As)0.25 Cadmium (Cd)0.1 Cobalt (Co)1.2 Copper (Cu)642 Lead (Pb)1 Mercury (Hg)0.01 Molybdenum (Mo)19 Nickel (Ni)1.2 Selenium (Se)0.25

Arsenic (As) 0.25
Cadmium (Cd) 0.1
Cobalt (Co) 1.2
Copper (Cu) 642
Lead (Pb) 1
Mercury (Hg) 0.01
Molybdenum (Mo) 19
Nickel (Ni) 1.2
Selenium (Se) 0.25


sorry that chart didnt turn out right

most of there nutes arent organic

those are fine for your plants.

dont drink out of the bottle.

they add copper to wine.

When dealing with concentrated nutrients they are always most likely derived from a synthetic source. Most people say they don't want to use chemicals but everything is a chemical. From the cells that make up your hand to the tires on your car. A synthetic chemical is a duplicate molecule manufactured to be indentical to another. As an example apirin is made syntheticly but your body reacts to it the same way as the natural version found in the bark of willow and poplar trees. Every nutrient I have ever seen has the disclaimer of the content of metals and it is just something that is a product of the chemical industry and the chemistry around their production so no need to worry.

DaddyGr33nJeans said:

When dealing with concentrated nutrients they are always most likely derived from a synthetic source. Most people say they don't want to use chemicals but everything is a chemical. From the cells that make up your hand to the tires on your car. A synthetic chemical is a duplicate molecule manufactured to be indentical to another. As an example apirin is made syntheticly but your body reacts to it the same way as the natural version found in the bark of willow and poplar trees. Every nutrient I have ever seen has the disclaimer of the content of metals and it is just something that is a product of the chemical industry and the chemistry around their production so no need to worry.

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makes sense. thank you all for the input

The only 100% organic liquid nute FF has is Big Bloom that's it. I always tell people to read the fukin bottles don't just buy products because somebody says you need to be using it.
I use their Peace of Mind & Happy Frog dry nutes with microbes, my fav is the 3-8-8 Bulb Food for flowering.

Hey chemicals are everywhere but their are natural ones and synthetic ones, take that example about the willowbark and the aspirin, then answer this question which is safest? it would be the natural product too much aspirin will kill you faster than too much willowbark will.
Steriods are synthetics naturally derived from organic sources and just like synthetic nutes they assimulate into the tissues faster cutting out alot of the processes the body/plant are required to do for itself that's why synthetics have more severe side effects than naturals, they are forced into the bloodstream/roots at a rate the body/plant can't handle just look with synthetic chems you are giving the plants a whole weeks worth of food in one setting, have you ever eaten a weeks worth of food at one time dude, you're going to the ER. The body/plant, has limits, we all store leftovers in our tissues of what we don't take in so the more synthetics being stored by the body/plant the less natural processes are taking place by them.

Very true, too much of anything is bad if its natural or not.

has anyone ever used ecogrow or ecobloom i thank its the best

Consuming heavy metals may be fine for the plant, but I'm not down with that. Sure copper and molybdenum occur naturally and aren't harmful (that I'm aware of.), but it'd be hard to convince me that smoking arsenic, cobalt, lead, mercury, etc., is 'okay'.

I mean, I wouldn't lose sleep over it, we're exposed to them all the time in our day to day lives, but I do try to avoid putting them in my weed.