Carbo-load vs. Mollasses

Ive been using mollases for a few years and wondered if anyone has used Carbo-load? Hows it work for u? Have u previously used mollasses and seen a difference? Lemme know.

Fditty00 said:

Ive been using mollases for a few years and wondered if anyone has used Carbo-load? Hows it work for u? Have u previously used mollasses and seen a difference? Lemme know.

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A lot of those carbo load prodocts are nothing more than molasses anyway.

for soil its all the same but mollasess will clog any dripers or small tubes, carb wont.

Thats what i figured. Does it have a fert. smell, or a sugar mollasses smell?My problem is, when I use it in the summer it attracts gnats. Now that the harvest is over and the gnats are gone. Im thinkin of switchin. Is it not worth the 500% markup?

Fditty00 said:

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If you are doing soil and you aren't concerned about the bugs molasses can attract why not just use some good ole fashioned organic blackstrap molasses?

I dont want bugs. Thats why im asking if carbo will attract them???

Fditty00 said:

I dont want bugs. Thats why im asking if carbo will attract them???

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I don't want to tell you they will for sure because I've never used them. From what I understand most of them either are nothing but molasses or they are molasses processed in such a way as to not clog sprayers and be more soluble in water. If that's the case it seems reasonable that they would attract bugs as well. Buy a small bottle and do a small scale test to see if they are worth the extra $$.

Cool, ill try it, cant hurt..

Diatomaceous earth will take care of your bugs. It is fossilized single cell organisms. Spread some over the top of your soil. The bugs will not go near it if they do they die.
It makes the surface of the soil a very dangerous place for these lil insects. The fossils are of course lil bones that are razor sharp, once the insect lands and tries to walk around the fossils cut him all to hell causing him to bleed to death.
Scorpion Juice will also keep gnats at bay. Or the new Bud Factor X will also, it is a new formulation of Scorpion Juice with Colossal Bud Blast mixed in. But it is pricey. Good luck.

i use molasses with soil and dont have any bugs...but i am indoors.....i add nutes to water, PH, then add molasses...anyone do it this way? does molasses effect the PH?

I use a ph dropplet vial. Molasses is to dark to tell. But ive done my rain water and mollasses and no yellowing of leaves.

Yep, DE works wonders with gnats. But one should really only be feeding with molasses/carbs 2-3 TIMES toward the end of the flowering cycle anyway, and in my experience that little amount alone will not draw gnats. It's the guys that feed with molasses for 2-3 WEEKS on end that have gnat probs.

Sry took a long time to respond. Carbo is different it dosent smell like mollases and dissolves in water much easier. This might help because it gets it deep into the soil rather then sitting on the top

Carbo it is!! Thx guys.