Who uses molasses and see's good results? I've heard alot of good and bad

bradburry

bradburry

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an old flower shop lady told me if you put a tsp of normal sugar in the water with cut flowers (not cannabis) you will get 2 extra weeks out them in the vase........she was right.


and i dont even think she knows why it works ........how innocent.
 
TheYokel

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chuck estevez said:
as stated earlier, molasses should be used when making teas. A plant takes nutrients in a broken down form into the leaves where photosynthesis happens and the plant makes glucose. adding sugars to the soil is just feel good bro science.
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$10 a gallon for some Hi-Brix and it will last you through numerous grows...

If it feels good... do it.
 
bongtheripper420

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budman111 said:
First off you don't let your cat anywhere near your plants and molasses are for feeding bacteria with almost no benefit to plants compared with your base nutrients.
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My Veg and flower area are both inclosed and im running two Hepa filters with good air quality.. as long as he isnt nibbling on my plants i dont think its a problem
 
Flagg420

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My buddy I used to grow with.... had 6 fuckin huskies....

I really dont miss that... Flowing cannabis smells great, pets fucking STINK.
 
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bulimic

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I've used it in my past couple of grows at a tsp per gallon every watering. I grow in coco and use mykos which it feeds, so I figure anything to help the roots absorb more nutrient is good.
 
bradburry

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TheYokel said:
No sir. I knew it might come out sounding wrong so I started with "I agree" to hopefully keep you from thinking it was directed at you. :)
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they only make fools of themselfs .........i was on another site the othe day and i was indiscusion with the site owner about live hydroponics and there was one guy telling me not listen to the site owner and go sterile......he was a nob and we found out from another post he was having problems himself and didnt have a clue what he was talking........he got ban hammer for being a nob.......iv now got a freind who i can rely on for good info because of the nob..lol.



i ended up going sterile anyway .lol. after learning that hydropnics should be clean and both bennies and sterile solutions do the same job.......now the glucose can benifit my plant instead of the bennies for food, and my sterile method cleans the res.....simple for mne and it works.

i read a scientific test when breeding beenies and feeding them mollasis under a microscope that there move slow and slugish like they were full up and when added to soil are too full up on mollasis to bother innocultating to the roots ....they should feed on dead organic matter and shit and not steal all the good stuff.


if this post is shit andbollocks please correct me as im surrounded by 1989 oldskool beats a multicolour changing room light and plenty weed....lol.

wot? its midnight in uk.....im not even gunna read it back......ha
 
Diabolical666

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Milovan said:
How 'bout smell any difference?
I ran molasses on a Blue Dream soil grow and when a friend smelt
the end product she said mmm I smell molasses and
I said back that's funny cause I used molasses in the grow!
I then took a sniff and sure enough I got a very light unmistakable
whiff of molasses mixed with the Blue Dream smell and no taste of it.
I also ran molasses on other strains and did not
get the same result.
Blue Dream never ceases to surprise in so many ways
it's mind boggling! My newest amazement came when I reveged
to blue dreams and no twisty and 1 finger messed up leaves at all
came out, only perfect sets of leaves.
Fucking BD .
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I thought there might have been some diff in the BD ...I thought it was more crystally. My next run of blue dream is all crystally too without the molasses, so then I was like meh;)
 
bradburry

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Al Yamoni said:
It seems like the mindset that you have on molasses is treating it like a nutrient source for the plant when it should be used as a nutrient source for the bacteria that one would want in a living medium.
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no its a source for both .....im just wondering what the bennies eat without maloasis
 
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THE KONASSURE

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bradburry said:
glucose is dextrose............just another name i think?
all sugars get broken down into carbs like honey etc...but gluvose is allready broken down into carbs i think im really rarther stoned at the moment lol ....i may be slightly wrong.

i do know all the extra good stuff in molasis should be already in your soil exept the carbs......thats why i bought just the carbs ....glucose c
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if I could get a tub of glucose cheaper then the 1kg of dextrose I got cheap then I`d use that next time

Grape sugar looks like that`s all the put in most of these "sugar" or "sweet bud" products

Now I do like to flush with some sugar and a little citrus as I have to use tap water to flush and I find what ever the plant uptakes right before cut the taste will stay with it

Plain tap water has chlorine in it and london tap water tastes like crap, so there`s only a few choices

1 filter it

2 buy water (no way) lol

3 let it air for a few days

4 add something to get rid of the chlorine and improve the taste I find the citric acid ph down I have is good for that as citric acid will naturalize chlorine and chlormine for 2 to 4 days, but I find using some sugar even up to the last watering can really add some sweetness to the buds.

I mean when I`m trying to be "pure" I`ll leave the bud with just water for 2 weeks but a lot of strains seem better if you use sugar near the end

Plus I reuse my coco so the molasses or sugar that is left in the soil gets mixed right into my new coco and bennies when I chuck the used stuff into my tub to be re-used

Anyone ever used glycerine / Glycerol on their plants before ?
 
bradburry

bradburry

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THE KONASSURE said:
if I could get a tub of glucose cheaper then the 1kg of dextrose I got cheap then I`d use that next time

Grape sugar looks like that`s all the put in most of these "sugar" or "sweet bud" products

Now I do like to flush with some sugar and a little citrus as I have to use tap water to flush and I find what ever the plant uptakes right before cut the taste will stay with it

Plain tap water has chlorine in it and london tap water tastes like crap, so there`s only a few choices

1 filter it

2 buy water (no way) lol

3 let it air for a few days

4 add something to get rid of the chlorine and improve the taste I find the citric acid ph down I have is good for that as citric acid will naturalize chlorine and chlormine for 2 to 4 days, but I find using some sugar even up to the last watering can really add some sweetness to the buds.

I mean when I`m trying to be "pure" I`ll leave the bud with just water for 2 weeks but a lot of strains seem better if you use sugar near the end

Plus I reuse my coco so the molasses or sugar that is left in the soil gets mixed right into my new coco and bennies when I chuck the used stuff into my tub to be re-used

Anyone ever used glycerine / Glycerol on their plants before ?
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glucose is dextose i think
 
panhead

panhead

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Ive been growing off & on over 30 yrs & used to use molasses in living soil grows , if you use chemical nutes then molasses does nothing, in hrdroponics running it is a real bad idea , the sugars & carbs are too complex for the plant to break down into usefull forms of sugars & carbs.

I did all kind of tests over the yrs with all sorts of shit & molasses is one of them , in my soil grows i never noticed any increase in weight but there was 1 interesting effect, put buds grown in living soil & fed molasses under a black light & i could see subtle differences in coloration compared to no molasses plants.

Im not a botanist but from my experience the bad aspects like slimmy rez , fungus gnats & such outweigh any possible benifit .
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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bradburry said:
they only make fools of themselfs .........i was on another site the othe day and i was indiscusion with the site owner about live hydroponics and there was one guy telling me not listen to the site owner and go sterile......he was a nob and we found out from another post he was having problems himself and didnt have a clue what he was talking........he got ban hammer for being a nob.......iv now got a freind who i can rely on for good info because of the nob..lol.



i ended up going sterile anyway .lol. after learning that hydropnics should be clean and both bennies and sterile solutions do the same job.......now the glucose can benifit my plant instead of the bennies for food, and my sterile method cleans the res.....simple for mne and it works.

i read a scientific test when breeding beenies and feeding them mollasis under a microscope that there move slow and slugish like they were full up and when added to soil are too full up on mollasis to bother innocultating to the roots ....they should feed on dead organic matter and shit and not steal all the good stuff.


if this post is shit andbollocks please correct me as im surrounded by 1989 oldskool beats a multicolour changing room light and plenty weed....lol.

wot? its midnight in uk.....im not even gunna read it back......ha
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I was going to just ignore this whole thread, but since you asked.
Molasses is used to get the beneficial microbes to procreate, everything I've read on beneficials (and I've read a good amount) indicates that a sugar (carbohydrate) is needed in order for them to reproduce, I've never heard or read about beneficials being "full"
the point of it all is to colonize your growing media with a beneficial microbial population that will break down the organic material that isn't readily "digested" by the plant, essentially making the nutrients already present in the soil more readily useable for the plant.
Molasses used as a NPK nutrient can cause issues, but used as a source of food for a AACT and it's simply irreplaceable as a growing tool.
If you want to learn more go read in the organic section or get some organic-growing books
Tim the microbe man has a bunch of information on the subject, all backed by a microscope to verify microbe activity
you mentioned "inoculating the roots" i'm thinking you may have it confused with mychorizae, which in fact colonizes the roots, but beneficials microbes don't need roots
 
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