molasses/sugar

So I've been hearing alot about the good things molasses can do for bud..and sugar too. Does anyone know anything about using sugar (particularly brown sugar) instead of molasses? Or should I just stick to molasses..Any tips/experience/info post it here!!

Peace

its sucrose in general that helps. sucanat was popular back in the day before there were all these bloom boosters on the market. i would recommend using organic blackstrap molasses with every feeding during the latter half of flowering.

Put the sugar in boiling water till it dissapates wait till it cools then add to the rest of the nutes. A word of warning this is not a good idea in summer every little critter that flys comes to the grow room for a drink.make sure you ph after adding the sugar this can alter the ph.also only use in the last 4/5 week of floering i use about 50 ml of sugar to 1 ltr of water.

ok cool. good tips. does normal sugar/brown sugar work just as well as molasses though or is molasses king?

Molasses is a lot easier to dissolve and it just feels more substantial in general. You'll notice the difference once you mix it up in a gallon jug!

ya bananas right, just pour molasses in the day before mix, it will dissolve on its own. I would stick to molasses, its cheap enough, just obviously dont use white sugar, the RAW sugar in the other thread is the best refined sugar, but molasses is best. At hydro stores they sell a product called sweet, for $30 and its pretty much just sugar. Some nutes are derived from molasses as well.

how much molasses do you add to 1 gal of H2O?

Resident Kush said:

ya bananas right, just pour molasses in the day before mix, it will dissolve on its own. I would stick to molasses, its cheap enough, just obviously dont use white sugar, the RAW sugar in the other thread is the best refined sugar, but molasses is best. At hydro stores they sell a product called sweet, for $30 and its pretty much just sugar. Some nutes are derived from molasses as well.

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and only during flowering right?

I use it throughout, not every feed in veg, but most of them.

Doesnt matter how much, teaspoon roughly. I mix those 5 gallon jugs you buy at the store, I dont measure, I just pour it in, roughly a tblspn or 2 / 5 gallons.

1 gallon = 1 teaspoon

ok cool. all i can find at my grocery store is this "fancy molasses" stuff..that good to use?

organic blackstrap mollassas. is the way to go i hear. i would also like to know how much mollassas per gallon

from what ive read its two tbs per gallon.

I used 1TBsp / gal which ended out to be 10 tbsp in a DWC and would strongly recommend to stay away if you yourself are in DWC (Killed one plant made the other gorgeous). Best bet is to just use a little at first for two to 4 days then if it likes it bump it up. I was also told your std table sugar will give the plant the carb it gets from the molasses. I think a major ploblem of molasses is that it shoots all your other nutes out of proportion as most molasses is high in Ca. and N If I remember it right so watch the EC if you do decide to use it.

Too much can cause a fermented stink and root damage. It seems sugar water is more difficult to get right. A little goes a long way.

hmm..do you think the brown sugar i use to put on oatmeal would do good things if i used it really sparingly?

bmh8938 said:

ok cool. all i can find at my grocery store is this "fancy molasses" stuff..that good to use?

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if you try it ..make sure it has unsulphured printed on the label..

bmh8938 said:

hmm..do you think the brown sugar i use to put on oatmeal would do good things if i used it really sparingly?

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try it out ..and report back what you see and all ..and we can all learn if it works or not i think it may work for ya

bmh8938 said:

So I've been hearing alot about the good things molasses can do for bud..and sugar too. Does anyone know anything about using sugar (particularly brown sugar) instead of molasses? Or should I just stick to molasses..Any tips/experience/info post it here!!

Peace

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Hey man I hate to be a party pooper, but, I used molases on my last crop and I didnt notice any difference at all. I used it in the late stages of flowering and flushing also. 2 TBSP per gallon.
I have found that great taste comes from proper curring. Just in my experience.
Good Luck everybody

yeah i might try it out..it and brown sugar too. but its not like you can actually tell if it helped or not..theres no way of knowing how it would have turned out if it wasnt used

bmh8938 said:

yeah i might try it out..it and brown sugar too. but its not like you can actually tell if it helped or not..theres no way of knowing how it would have turned out if it wasnt used

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sure there is...take clones from 1 plant @ 6 ..grow 2 with molas..2 with brown s ...2 with nothing ..flower ..see if there's any difference or not ..take notes ..easy science project..