Molasses
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Dinosaur Bone
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Use the one they sell in your grocery store. Likely Grandmas or Brer Rabbit. Its next to the pancake syrup. I am pretty sure the sulfured stuff isnt sold in stores.
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Countryfarmer
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If you are giving your plants a full spectrum fertilizer you do not need to give them molasses. Molasses is a decent source of nitrogen and potash, as well as other needed micronutrients, but any decent commercial fertilizer will contain all of the needed plant minerals.
How molasses works is it provides a source of carbon for bacteria in the soil. The bacteria are able to reproduce and proliferate due to the additional source of food. They, in turn, break down the molasses into mineral forms that are utilized by the plant as food and to perform essential plant functions.
If you were choosing to grow all organically in soil, molasses would be a great way to supplement other organic fertilizers, such as properly composted plant and animal matter. If you are growing in hyrdo, molasses will be of limited, if any, benefit since you do not have the soil microbes that break the molasses down into its plant usable forms.
As to molasses improving the taste of bud, I am far from sold on that claim. Plants are not acting like a kid with a straw and slurping up sugar. The sugar is completely unusable by the plant until microbes perform their activity.
How molasses works is it provides a source of carbon for bacteria in the soil. The bacteria are able to reproduce and proliferate due to the additional source of food. They, in turn, break down the molasses into mineral forms that are utilized by the plant as food and to perform essential plant functions.
If you were choosing to grow all organically in soil, molasses would be a great way to supplement other organic fertilizers, such as properly composted plant and animal matter. If you are growing in hyrdo, molasses will be of limited, if any, benefit since you do not have the soil microbes that break the molasses down into its plant usable forms.
As to molasses improving the taste of bud, I am far from sold on that claim. Plants are not acting like a kid with a straw and slurping up sugar. The sugar is completely unusable by the plant until microbes perform their activity.
Countryfarmer
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Absolutely! If you choose to grow all organically and need the molasses to help provide some of the needed micronutrients as well as some extra nitrogen and potash, it is much better to buy some blackstrap molasses and mix it into some water yourself than pay a commercial vendor 20 times the price of doing it yourself.
Countryfarmer
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Sounds like a good, all organic fertilizer.
doublejj
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My buds taste a little stronger when I use molasses. Not more potent, more flavor. Not a lot, it's just enough to notice.
Just enough to keep me using it. I always start molasses when I start the bloom fertilizer.
The buds always finish nice & frosty, when I use Molasses
peace
doublejj
P.S. You should see the girl at the register, when I buy 8 bottles of Brer Rabbit. I use one bottle per feeding, twice a week.
Just enough to keep me using it. I always start molasses when I start the bloom fertilizer.
The buds always finish nice & frosty, when I use Molasses
peace
doublejj
P.S. You should see the girl at the register, when I buy 8 bottles of Brer Rabbit. I use one bottle per feeding, twice a week.
odbsmydog
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I use brer and grandmas mixed together cause they both have slightly different cal-mag-p-k ratios. the day I bought both bottles I used half of each, now I just add a few tablespoons every couple days..
