Adding sugar during flowering

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piratebug

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Every mineral akin to our planet produces some form of salt, not sugar, so our whole plant based eco system is fueled by salts, not sugars! Which means there is not ONE SINGLE PLANT in nature that needs sugar to grow.
 
Fordprefect42

Fordprefect42

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“I have never seen a plant explode like this in week 7. I suggest anybody to put a plant aside in their grow tent wait until week 5 or 6 and toss sugar water in the pot I'd love to see others reactions because I'm mf mind blown right now on how much this plant is exploding with trechs”

I didn’t read all 17 pages here so forgive me if this was stated.

You might want to get more data points than ”I grew this one plant“. I have no idea if sugar does anything good or not, but I sure as hell wouldn’t draw conclusions from a single plant.

2 grows ago I had a plant that wound up in a waterlogged starter plug and nearly died. 3 weeks in it looked like a 5 day old seedling. I managed to correct that and the plant slowly recovered and ultimately exploded giving me buds bigger than coke cans.

The one conclusion I didn’t draw is that everyone should try drowning their plants for 3 weeks. There are a million reasons your plants might have done well. Who hasn’t had a plant that inexplicably took off?

You are missing 2 things
1. a theory as to why this helps
2. enough data to think there actually might be a repeatable thing here. Do this with half a dozen plants with and without sugar in an otherwise identical environment, and it might be worth talking about.

I‘m glad your grow is going well though.
 
PeatPhreak

PeatPhreak

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budman111 said:
Plants can't uptake sugar molecules and only good for multiple pages of thread laughs
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22041897/

This is what science says:

Plant roots are able to absorb sugars from the rhizosphere but also release sugars and other metabolites that are critical for growth and environmental signaling. Reabsorption of released sugar molecules could help reduce the loss of photosynthetically fixed carbon through the roots. Although biochemical analyses have revealed monosaccharide uptake mechanisms in roots, the transporters that are involved in this process have not yet been fully characterized

Plants can NOT uptake molasses tho. Too big. Microbes will eat it.
 
LeastExpectedGrower

LeastExpectedGrower

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PeatPhreak said:
Sugar increases corn yield.

http://cropphysiology.cropsci.illinois.edu/documents/2020 ASA Poster Lezen Final.pdf

In before, "but weed is not corn".
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To cut to the chase on this poorly laid out article:
In furrow applications of sugars tended to result in visual growth enhancement during early vegetative growth, but this increased growth was not consistently reflected in grain yield. In the higher yielding environment of 2019, sugars applied in furrow tended to act synergistically with starter fertilizer application to increase grain yields. This finding suggests that sugar sources can stimulate the activity of soil microorganisms, thereby increasing nutrient availability and fertilizer use and improving plant growth and yield.

Which is exactly what has been said here and other places. Sugar feeds soil biome not plant. They admit their other tests results are ambiguous on foliar feeding and need more testing.
 
Budzbuddha

Budzbuddha

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I think this obsession with sugar coating microbes in the hope confectioners sugar will be able to shake free like cannabis dandruff is insane. Its basically junk food for the microbes , nothing else.

Your joints aren’t gonna leave your man lips kissy wet like lipgloss …..
( sorry lil nas x )

This may sound crazy but …. How about letting strain flavor / terp push thru without “ candy koolaid enhancers “. ?

But if you need your weed to taste like Liberace then knock yourself out …

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