Mixing molasses with nutrients

blackdolphin

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I have gathered all my nutrients. here they are:

1 fox farm trio liquid concentrates
2- fox farm trio solubles
3- mollases
4- BMO SPT

Question

Feed molasses with fox farm nutrients or mix with BMO SPT every other plain watering?
 
To answer your question, it probably does not matter if you feed right away.

I am starting to question the use of molasses, at least in the commonly used doses (1T/gal). The plant makes it's own sugars, it cannot digest, so the sugars are purely to feed the beasties. 1T is a lot of sugar molecules...imagine the 1/2 cup or more that ends up in the medium.

Another consideration is that the mole-asses is a low grade fert (5-1-1?).

Now I have used exactly the nutes you are using, ran out of botanicare and back to the left over FF. When using the SPT with molasses: If you bubble it, or keep any leftovers, the beasties do some metabolizing and the pH can make some serious swings up...be very careful of this...trust me. I also wonder if this (pH rise) does not take place in the soil in the presence of an abundant unnatural food source.

My current bottle was super active when I got it and remained so for a while. It is now completely shot and does not drop pH when first added like it used to. I stopped using it. I now have some Great White. It is very similar, even smells the same (apple cidery/sewer gas). It is expensive, but after shipping for the SPT it is not much different. I mix it with a dilute worm casting tea, cal-mag plus, liquid karma. this is my base that I add the trios to. I skip the trios and water with the dilute base (~200ppm). I quit using the soluables before seeing them through before, and now have a 6 and 8 week headband that one is on Cha-ching and the other is in flush. I think they maybe a little fatter, lots of trichs, we will see on taste. These have the most healthy foliage late in flower...only 1 teaspoon molasses with these two. Lotsa variables so who knows.

Oh and use the downloadable nute chart at 1/2 strength.

:leaf::peace::leaf:
 
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