When should i stop with molasses?

tlsdrm73

tlsdrm73

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somebody told me that you can continue molasses once a week to the last week right before 48 hours of darkness and then chop chop...but discontinue everything else of course...any input?? and also would it be better to be using something like Botanicare's Sweet in organics instead of Granny's?

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Serapis

Serapis

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I'm ready to toss my jar..... it's messy and I don't see any benefits.... Just something I picked up from the forums and thought I'd try. I already use the flowering solubles from FF though, so maybe I'm already pushing max yield?
 
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mushroom head

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I would def use molasses throughout the whole grow, but stop using for the last 4-5 waterings for a bit of a flushout. Thats all im doing for a flush though, just plain rainwater for the last couple of waterings.
 
Matt Rize

Matt Rize

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tlsdrm73 said:
somebody told me that you can continue molasses once a week to the last week right before 48 hours of darkness and then chop chop...but discontinue everything else of course...any input?? and also would it be better to be using something like Botanicare's Sweet in organics instead of Granny's?

much love! +rep for help :) free candy inside my van too...
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two weeks before harvest. molasses is usually about half sugars, 20% water, and the rest is other stuff like micronutes. You do not want add any micronutes at the end, as they tend to be what makes your herb crackle when smoked.

no sweet or any of that bs, just pH balance water and good to go last two weeks. molasses or sucanat are good up until then.
 
homebrewer

homebrewer

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Sweet will benefit your plant a lot more than molasses. Molasses is 75% carbs with trace amounts of stuff plants can actually use. Sweet supplies additional sulfur and magnesium, in addition to aminos (which plants already make on their own). In my educated opinion, I'd ditch the molasses all together and use a good base nutrient. If you want an increase in the overall health and resin production, check out sweet because even if you're not feeding microbes with the cane sugar, the plant is still getting some secondary macros that it needs.

*I use sweet all the way up to harvest and have never noticed a difference in flavor.
 
bigv1976

bigv1976

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I think people are missing the fact that mollasses is extremely beneficial to the microbes in your soil.
 
homebrewer

homebrewer

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bigv1976 said:
I think people are missing the fact that mollasses is extremely beneficial to the microbes in your soil.
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A lot of indoor soils don't come with mycorrhizae and if the grower isn't adding microbes, then you're pretty much feeding nothing with those carbs.
 
stoneyluv

stoneyluv

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homebrewer said:
Sweet will benefit your plant a lot more than molasses. Molasses is 75% carbs with trace amounts of stuff plants can actually use. Sweet supplies additional sulfur and magnesium, in addition to aminos (which plants already make on their own). In my educated opinion, I'd ditch the molasses all together and use a good base nutrient. If you want an increase in the overall health and resin production, check out sweet because even if you're not feeding microbes with the cane sugar, the plant is still getting some secondary macros that it needs.

*I use sweet all the way up to harvest and have never noticed a difference in flavor.
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what is sweet?
 
Spanishfly

Spanishfly

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bigv1976 said:
I think people are missing the fact that mollasses is extremely beneficial to the microbes in your soil.
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Shame you can´t smoke the microbes.

I tried molasses, read so much about how wonderful it is - made NO difference to my buds whatever. Mind you, I got a good yield this year anyway.
 
stoneyluv

stoneyluv

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Winter Woman

Winter Woman

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Use Brer Rabbit Blackstrap Molasses right up to harvest. Do not use Gramma's Originial Molasses, but Blackstrap it makes a difference, etc.

I do a full flush then I stop using NPK and use Super Thrive and Blackstrap Molasses for the next week or two. Why use all those expensive chemicals when nature can do it cheaper.
 
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Hogg

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I use mollasses all the way through to the end. Most of those sweet additives are just mollasses based products if you read the ingredients list.
 
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