Try Sucanat. It's dried cane juice and is cheaper than molasses. Screw that botanicare sweet shit!
I've tried it. Wasn't impressed and the shit's expensive! Molasses always causes my leaves to yellow prematurely. I've been using Sucanat for almost 2 years and have never noticed a difference in taste. Plants don't really take on the taste of what you put in the soil. They can only absorb miniscule amounts of simple sugars and it doesn't affect the taste at all IMO. I can feed my plants nothing but Sweet Grape and my plants won't even kind of taste like grape. Stuff is a ripoff IMO.
lol! Nitrogen is NOT the problem. I didn't use molasses long enough to really give 2 shits though. I switched to sucanat, which is way less messy, and I am not experiencing the yellowing I was with molasses. I can get a 2 pound bag of sucanat for 3-4 dollars and it lasts me 2-3 times as long as a jar of molasses. To each their own I guess. The OP wanted opinions on organic sweeteners. I gave mine. If you're happy with molasses or expensive hydro shop sweeteners then what do I care?
That stuff is so shetty that Sub uses it so I would do some research before typing there, I personally use Black Strap & also used Grand Ma's Molasses as well with good results - 1 or 2 table spoons per gallon
From my understanding sucanat is what he uses during flowering
It's simply my opinion based on my own experiences. I've tried virtually every "sweetener" on the market. Every time I go to the hydro shop the manager always is giving me samples of this shit (as well as other products). I normally don't trash brands or specific products, and I know there are a lot of people who use it. I found it to be of no benefit to me whatsoever AND it is pretty pricey. I also found molasses to be pretty much useless and it seemed to cause rapid, premature yellowing of the fan leaves. Sucanat, I started using because of subcool's recommendation. I don't normally buy into snake oils and keep my list of products I use to a bare minimum these days. I have not noticed any dramatic results using any sweetener but sucanat seemed to increase my yields by approximately 10%. That doesn't seem like much but for a $4 investment I'll take a 10% increase in yields any day! I get no yellowing, it is dry and dissolves readily in even cold water, which molasses doesn't do so easily. To each their own. If you have a product that you like and find gives you good results, use it! I have a cousin who swears by Advanced Nutrients. I have nothing personally against them and have never used them. I just can't see spending that kind of money when I can get the same or close to the same results at a fraction of the price. I still experiment with different products and when I find one that seems to work well, I continue to use it.
I thought I recognized that name somewhere. I had to go and check. I presume it is the same TCurtiss that had some pics in a magazine a few months back?
Yes you are correct & we will have some more work coming up in July HT issue so be on the look outI thought I recognized that name somewhere. I had to go and check. I presume it is the same TCurtiss that had some pics in a magazine a few months back?
That's awesome man. Glad to hear things are going well. Keep up the good work! I look forward to seeing your stuff in the future.
