The arsenic levels in Botanicare Sweet are 38, while acceptable levels for human consumption in drinking water is 5 or less. IMO I would not use this product. The arsenic PPM is 10 times higher than most of the products I find MJ growers using, the only thing that I have found that comes even close is some of the Alaska fish ferts which are still no higher than 9 while many products from GH are les than 3. This may make a person think twice about the so called all organic products. Details for this report and reports for almost every fertilizer/nute we use can be found here, http://agr.wa.gov/PestFert/Fertilize...asp?pname=3900 this is the page on Sweet. Here is the page for the mane index which is in alphabetical form and the products range from the Alaska fish products, Bio Biz , Botanicare, Shultz, Scotts down to GH products.
Link to the main index, http://agr.wa.gov/PestFert/Fertilize...B/Product1.asp

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Hey Bear, you should give the units... drinking water is not 5 ppm As that's for sure. It is more likely 5 parts per billion...

I'm not sure how much actually is taken up and stored in the plant.

The fish ferts it makes sense as predatory fish may bioaccumulate toxins in their bodies, esp. bones, liver, and fatty tissues, and the emulsion is most likely guts and other byproducts of processing.

Great info Bear!

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Your right Stinky, "The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signaled on October 31, 2001 that it will be reducing the amount of arsenic allowed in US drinking water from
a maximum of 50 parts per billion (50 ppb) back to the tighter 10 ppb standard adopted in the final days of the Clinton administration.

"A standard of 10 ppb protects public health based on the best available science and ensures that the cost of the standard is achievable," wrote EPA Administrator,
Christine Whitman, in a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Bill Young (R-FL). The new standard will not be fully in effect until 2006."
So with that, doesn't it make the Sweet levels even higher than I stated earlier compared to drinking water levels?? Perhaps it sounds much worse to me than it is, but it still makes me a little uneasy.
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i just bought sweet and now i cant use it......thanks alotany alternatives would be appreciated(?)

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meh I still use mine!
TopMax is an option...more of a broad-spectrum supplement that inclused carb synth...SUPER expensive but it's a really good product, and it's certified organic!

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I don't claim to know the first thing about growing anything; hell, I can't make a Chia pet sprout.

so why does it say 3.80000 PPM... not 38 ppm

Fertilizer Product Information

I think you misread something

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Old post, but...
I've never heard of anyone having gotten sick or dying as a result of using the stuff, so I doubt it's a concern.

Molasses is the logical replacement, as Sweet is made from sugar beets or sugar cane, I can't remember which. The same stuff molasses is made from. Same as all the "carbo-load" products from what I gather.

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