I agree, for the most part, you can use black strap un-sulphured molasses for a boost of micronutrients and potassium, but if you aren't familiar with it, I don't recommend it either, you can easily overdo it on the micros/potassium, and I think its magnesium? Anyways it causes a lock out of phosphorus uptake, If I remember it right... Anyways, used as a catalyst for teas is a damn great idea, plus in small amounts it does have a lot of good stuff in there, I LOVE molasses but you need to be careful with it, i'd say hot manures, blood meal, and molasses can be VERY harmful, if not used carefully
By using sulphured molasses, which fancy molasses is, you are using something that is almost pure sugar. It's practically devoid of minerals, there is no reason to put that stuff in your soil as it has no benefit.
Go to Zehrs, to the health food/organic stuff That is where you will find the blackstrap apparently tehy don't keep it in the baking section. It's with the health foods. Good luck.
Yeah, I got a bottle of that shit in my fridge with no use for it
takes a while to use it up
Yeah, but a cup of molasses in 50 gallons of water isn't a whole lot, most do a tablespoon per gallon, and at that rate you DO need to be careful with it. Just curious, do you put alfalfa or anything else in the water or just molasses? If not, ya may wanna think of a couple palmfuls of EWC, alfalfa, throw in a lil kelp meal, and BOOM, ya got microbes a plenty, well, brew those for 40 hrs or so first...
molasses is a GREAT additive for any spice cookies, oatmeal, gingersnap, etc. A speck in your oatmeal is good, also wheat bread comes out nicely with molasses. Like an 8-grain wheat breadYeah, I got a bottle of that shit in my fridge with no use for it
I used to make BBQ sauces with it, but you can make 100gallons of BBQ sauces with one of those small cartons
you think so? I think a cup in 50 gallons isn't much at all, lets see, I think it's 16 tbsp. to a cup, so that's less than a half tablespoon per gallon, that's not too much in my opinion. Ok, so my nerdery got the best of me, that's approx. a third of a tablespoon per gallon.
it dosent sound like alot but I personally think it is..and you shouldnt be feeding straigt molasses anyways, it goes into organic tea and then fed that way.
Hmm, I gotcha my friend, but i'd say maybe something else went wrong, I've been using molasses for over ten years, both as a nute supplement (used for the micros and potassium) and also as a AACT catalyst and I've only had problems when using weekly with a tbsp. per gallon, and even then it didn't ruin the plants just made the smoke burn black and taste a lil off.
that's weird, I don't see anything wrong with using that every two weeks with a lil molasses.... Only thing i'd do is add a speck of alfalfa and kelp meal. Can't see what would cause problems with that recipe..
no clue man, i chalked it up to molasses causing a PH imbalance. i could be wrong i guess but never really had any issues till i started with tea's then all of a sudden 2 weeks from flip i started seeing some deficiency issues..a week after that the entire crop was just fucked. started reading up and found molasses being a cause of PH to change so i rripped em all up carefully and repotted in fresh FFOF amended with lime and epsoma garden tone and left the tea out of it, they came back a little bit by my yeild on that crop suffered quite a bit.
that IS weird... I honestly don't think that that small amount would alter your PH, but I don't know that for a fact... I think it's kinda cool that there are literally a million different ways to grow pot, and we all think our own method is the best. I do love molasses though, I use it for every grow. Ya gotta respect it though, just because its natural and organic doesn't mean it won't bite you if you don't use it right. Like I said before, blood meal, manures, and molasses can screw your plants up big-time, if you don't know exactly how to use them, even though they are organic. Many growers assume organic= easier/safer. And that's not the case.
also in NO way was I criticizing your opinion, that's not what i'm about, I welcome all peoples information/opinions/techniques, hell i'm open to superstitions...
