Hey its been a while since ive posted. Going through a move right now. But i know for sure that plants are more efficient at absorbing sugars through the stomatas on the leaf than they are at absorbing sugars with there roots. Of course afterwards you would want to mist with pure water to get off the sticky sheem left behind. Lamp
Why are we talking about the Electron Trainsprot Chain. Yes active transport can move sugars against their will. Mostly by the use of a proton pump. I though we were talking about plants absorbing sugars through there stomata's. Which they can do. I will find a reference for you on how if flowers/fruits are avaliable plants stop growing vegetativly and send all the sugars to the fruit untill levels are normal. Also the sugars we give plants are NEVER the type they need. We feed them more complex sugars and the plant is forced to reduce the sugar into a simpler state. Such as deoxyribulose the starter sugar in the calvin cycle, and G3P or Guanine triphosphate, which is the final product. Again ill find a reference on the stunting, remember almost nothing is plant science is a fact most of it is theories and backed by anecdotal evidence. Sorry it took me so long to respond, im in the middle of a move and its hard to get online. Lamp
At night the plant sends sugars to the roots and some goes to the buds. The molasess probably helped you out by feeding the plant with excess sugar as well as feeding the plant sugar. I have Jorge Cervantes's book its at my old apartment ill get it soon enough. But i do know that Ed Rosenthill claims that you can actually run a needle and thread through the stalk of a plant and then let the thread sit in sugar water. Since water has capillary action, it will pull itself up the string like a wick and the plant is 'supposed' to benefit greatly from this. I would imagine however that you would be better off injecting it than running a needle through the stalk, but hey i got friend that snap there plants over when they get too tall and they seem just dandy, they just grow sideways for awhile. Lamp.
i would read the label closely... too much sodium would be deadly, and you certainly want unsulphured molasses. i use plain ol original grandma's molasses. it sells for around $3 a jar
you have any pictures of that? i haven't done any research myself, but i'm just about to, i saw you keep saying something about this non-complex sugar ribulose, is where i will start my search, i'll get back on that.
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I continue to use Botanicare Sweet and Roots Organic Trinity (molassis) as my foilar spray with a touch of Prozyme. Spraing the sugars directly on the tops and bottoms of the leafs. Seems to be doing gooddamn, how do you find that stuff! Again, very educative lecture, but i'm not sure if i wanna try that.
http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/53/376/1929.pdf
Page 2-3 elaborates on the stem injection method, which seems quite easy to perform...anybody wanna give it a try?...please DO post your results if you do
So, to summarise, it's not at all improving the tomatoe plants when feeding them sugar through their leaves, unless they came from a dark environment which would have held them back. But no overall improvement when growing conditions are optimal anyway.
It does tell us sugar is greatly absorbed through the leaves. Cannabis isn't a tomatoe! So if anyone has any pictures of identical clones being fed normally, and being fed sugar -either through foliar feeding or by being added with a nute solution fed to the roots, or both- , please do post them, it will be greatly appreciated, and it will clear confusion because many people make many statements, i would just like to see someone backup their statement.
You can always try to put a cannabis seed and a melon seed together and spray it with some plutonium to get those melon sized buds, it worked for homer simpson.
peace out
so i figured it's not worth it.
The only true "gimmick" that is failproof is a robust root system and a massive amount of healthy green foliage up to harvest.
