molasses and nutrients all help appreciated greatly!!!

[theaksmoker]

i am a soil grower for the record,and i have a question involving the molasses i just purchased recently,do i mix molasses with my nutrients in my gallon jug or should i have one gallon w/ nutes one gallon w/ molasses seperate just wondering because i put molasses in WITH my nutes and it looks like soft little peices of particle almost like wet paper floating around in my jug after a couple days...thought my jug somehow got contaminated so i dumped it all out and cleaned the jug. after re dioing the process mixing one table spoon of molasses and one table spoon of bloom nutes into a gallon of water and it was all clean...sure enough after 3 or 4 days the mystrious floaters re appeared is it ok to put on the plant? is the molasses fuckin with the nutes somehow?

 

[zerran elar]

I just put 1 teaspoon of molasses and then my nutes in 1 gallon of water... Not seperate.

 

[theaksmoker]

appreciate the help...any idea what the fuck the particles might be? thats whats really trippin me out

 

[theaksmoker]

now besides the mysterious floating chunks there is also a musky almost spoiled smell coming from the nutrient/molasses mix....is it just from being stagnant? is it bad to put on the plants? bump!

 

[Cliddy]

You should not water with molasses and nutes. Switch it off. Nutes then Water then molasses

 

[growone]

What you are probably seeing is anaerobic fermentation. These are bad bacteria. You need to aerate your molasses at least once a day. This will give you a much better product, molasses tea. Good that you didn't use what you had. Anaerobic bacteria can do harm and spoil your grow.

 

[OGKush00]

"i always use one tablespoon per gallon. the easiest way to add it in, is to boil water, mix the amount in a cup of hot water, and pour that into your prepared bucket/jug of nutes. the cool water nutes will cool the hot water instantaneously.

and, molasses is most helpful/beneficial in flower. i don't use it in veg, unless i have a calcium deff, which is almost never.

We’d like to remind folks to be careful out there . . . happy harvests from the 3LB! ..."

--Source--: https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=article&id=697 <-- Posted in the FAQs

Alot of helpful info can be found there if you look.

 

[OGKush00]

I have also heard of people letting their molasses ferment by keeping it in a container after mixing it with water and releasing the gases in the container a couple of times a day.. but I would have to find the thread on here.

 

[growone]

I have also heard of people letting their molasses ferment by keeping it in a container after mixing it with water and releasing the gases in the container a couple of times a day.. but I would have to find the thread on here.

that's molasses tea, gives you the full benefit of molasses
just pop the top and shake once or twice day
some prefer a bubbler system, which probably gives a better product

 

[theaksmoker]

so am i mixing the molasses in the nutes or seperate heard many different things bump!

 

[growone]

partly depends on the nutes, molasses is more of an organic method, works well with organic nutes
many growers will ferment a molasses tea, then add nutes to the tea

 

[GreenThumbsMcgee]

so am i mixing the molasses in the nutes or seperate heard many different things bump!

lmao!!! that seems to happen ALOT around here!

 

[GreenThumbsMcgee]

i am wondering the same thing...i think if i were you GROWONE, i would mix seperately if yr getting weird build up...i was getting a funky ass smell when i was mixing alaska 511 with a gal water, and after one feeding, and letting it sit, i would unscrew the top and it would stink like 10 times worse then fish fert already smells. i didnt want to put that shit on my plants, so i dumped it. I just mix as i go now for the most part. it seems to work best for me, although, i know most ppl dont do this. i mixed the molasass with the gal of water, and let it sit, alone tho. just open the cap every day, or every other day.

 

[kinddiesel]

its just a chemical process . even plain sugar in the water will do the same shit you will see white floaters . this is a natural process of the sugars breaking down and turning into some thing else . if you ask me its actually trying to form into liquor . any ways this natural process is happening in the soil after you water it. this is not a bad thing . basically it makes the soil alive with micro organs . if there is small white chunks for a day later go ahead and water I do . if there is huge chunks then I dump it out. that shit stinks to.