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PRODUCTS THAT ARE NOT TLO-FRIENDLY
Not all products are TLO-friendly. Your biggest enemy here will be synthetic salts, which
are often just listed as a few capital letters like EDTA on plant fertilizer. These salts will
really kill a TLO container soil mix fast, so avoid these types of salts! There are synthetic
salts in both liquid and dry amendments. Also, there are other salts that are bad because of
the levels of them in certain products, and especially coconut coir products. Sea salt is cer-
tainly all OMRI (Organic Materials Review Institute) good, but too much of it is not good
for a TLO grow in the same way that too much is not good for you.
Here is a partial list of common products that should NEVER be used in a TLO grow.
• Liquid, Tiger Bloom or Grow Big by Fox Farm (synthetic salts)
• Dry, American Pride or Marine Cuisine by Fox Farm (synthetic salts)
• Hot Shots No Pest Strips (poisonous big time)
• Avid or Floramite (poisonous big time)
• Sulfur burners (poisonous and harshes out your smoke big time)
• Liquid, Earth Juice fertilizers (too high in organic—chelating—acids)
• Liquid, soaps or oils like Neem oil entering the soil mix from run off treating bugs or
mold.
• Generally speaking almost all of Advanced Nutrients products are hostile to TLO style
(synthetic salts)
• Generally speaking almost all of Botanicare products are hostile to TLO style (synthetic
salts)
• Softened water (way high salt content)
• Hard water (way high salt content)
• Chlorinated water (chloramine is the super chlorine in most city water these days)
• Super Thrive
• Liquid Karma
• CalMag Plus by Botanicare (synthetic salts)
• pH-Up or pH-Down products, period
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