True Living Organics - The Ultimate Guide to Growing All-Natural Marijuana Indoors (2012)

can use it. This results in left over phosphorus, which locks up fast. Not only does that cause a
domino effect of problems, but it also really pisses off the good fungi and that is bad news for any
living soil mix. On the other hand, unsteamed bone meal is all good to mix in globally with your soil
mix, and I always add some. Bone meal buffers the pH from dropping drastically and supplies the allimportant
calcium as well. I only use steamed bone meal in spikes, or layers, due to the reasons
above.
This bone meal is unsteamed and is good to mix globally into your soil
The unsteamed type of bone meal is easy to spot due to its more granular nature. My favorite brand
is the Whitney Farm brand as it is available to me locally. Steamed bone meal is always in an almost
powdery state, due to the steaming process.
Lime and Dolomite Lime
I have noticed that the lime stuff tends to perplex many new TLO growers, so let me break it down to
you from a TLO perspective. Dry lime in your mix serves several purposes in TLO growing. First of
all let me say that you should never mix any lime directly with dry nutrients, such as in a spike or a
layer. When I talk later in the book about “cooking” your soil mix, you’ll see that this is partly
necessary due to the initial lime additions to your soil mix, and the instant reactions this causes with
other nutrients, which can be detrimental to roots. I use two grades of dolomite lime: a granular, fastacting,
prilled type, and a powdered type. Prilled is just like granular, except it is more soluble,
hence its “fast-acting” nature. Some granular dolomite lime is just like small rocks and has very little
power to influence pH or supply nutrient elements, due to its dense state. Prilled dolomite lime has a
soluble shell around small dolomite lime granules, and it works really well.