Molasses - didn´t do ANYTHING for me.

OK, I did an experiment this year, 2010 - having read so much about molasses making buds grow into unimaginable sizes, I decided to do an experiment.

Some of my girls I gave molasses - at a dose of 1 tbsp per gallon - others just plain water.

Now we are at harvest time - TAARAAAA - the result is - absolutely no fucking difference between them whatever.

Using molasses is confined to the ranks of OLD WIVES´ TALE.

Along with flushing, aluminium foil causes hotspots, and all the dopey ways of (not) getting females.

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were they clones?

flushing is no wives tale

Haha that's funny kulong, he's gotcha there spanishfly. I have never had any better results with molasses myself either, just the natural swelling of the buds which happens anyways. I am about a month away from my next harvest and am also going to try not flushing one of my plants and see if there really is any difference in taste. I have always flushed for at least a week prior to chopping but am now a little skeptical about it so wanna give it a try. But I am still gonna hang them upside down so all the thc drains into the buds... That was a joke, sarcasm is hard to gauge when reading...

I should be trying this test out myself very soon.I always heard mixed reviews about it so ill give it a shot myself.

This year I also tried molasses for the first time, but I did notice a difference between the ones that were given it and the ones that were not. The difference was about 1/2"-3/4" width on my colas that got it compared to the ones that didnt. I started giving them between 1-2 TBL/GAL every time I feed them starting in week 1 to end of week 6. Ive read a lot of mixed reviews on this and it seems like it works for some people and some people it doesnt. I think it mite depend on the strain thats being grown. Im growing White Rhino, Blue Berry and Ice and all three strains seemed to like the molasses more than the ones that just got plain water and bloom burst. Thats just my two cents on the conversation.

*Disclaimer* All statements made above are purely fictional and hypethicaly what I may do if I were in that situation

molasses works for me, maybe your doing it wrong..........lol

I tried it after reading about it here (about 2tbsp/gal) and, if it made a difference, it was slight.
I'm growing under CFLs though so the buds are small anyway, so I dunno.

Sounds to me like a good excuse for a photo thread...

Hasnt anyone read the AN ads.... Molasses works, and gives you watermelon sized buds.. IF your molasses is processed at the ionic level, and IF you use the entire AN nute line and feeding schedule.

always has worked for me but i never expect it to work miracles jus like i wouldnt take a few one a day vitamins and expect it to get me ripped lol. It seems to make the plants happy and Lil more frosty.

Forest G. said:

molasses works for me, maybe your doing it wrong..........lol

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Maybe I´m not - come on, adding some molasses to water, stir it, feed them - how on earth can you do it WRONG???

Sorry guys, molasses just didn´t work for me.

I set out to do a fair test - I would have loved it if molasses had done what the OWT said, but it just DIDN´T.

KuLong said:

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I never heard molasses being for making buds larger, I thought it was more sugar production. And if you think flushing for harvesting and aluminum foil being a heat conductor are wives tales, kill yourself.

Spanishfly said:

Maybe I´m not - come on, adding some molasses to water, stir it, feed them - how on earth can you do it WRONG???

Sorry guys, molasses just didn´t work for me.

I set out to do a fair test - I would have loved it if molasses had done what the OWT said, but it just DIDN´T.

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could you give more details though? were they clones or just same strain seeds? soil grow? which soil? what other nutes did you give all your plants?

bobhamm said:

were they clones?

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From seed - but not sure what that has to do with the price of eggs.

Spanishfly said:

Maybe I´m not - come on, adding some molasses to water, stir it, feed them - how on earth can you do it WRONG???

Sorry guys, molasses just didn´t work for me.

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Spanish Fly.. Its not so much that it didn't do anything... Its just that it didn't have a noticeable effect.

You strike me as someone that has pretty good soil to begin with. Since you already feed the microbes well, and take an organic approach... Obviously you wont notice as much of a difference as someone starting with lousy or moderately lousy soil.

All you did was feed your soil a little more than usual. That's not entirely a bad thing.

Obviously I am trashing some dearly held beliefs here - to be quite honest I always felt that giving a plant SUGAR, which is what molasses is, was a load of BS - plants make ALL the sugars they need by photosynthesis - just another OWT to bite the dust. But I gave it a fair shot.
I can see a lot more going as well - as most MJ forums are populated by a load of naive kids who have never grown anything else and have no botanical knowledge whatever.

Dinosaur Bone said:

Spanish Fly.. Its not so much that it didn't do anything... Its just that it didn't have a noticeable effect.

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NO EFFECT whatever for sure.

Well I don't know what to say Spanishfly, it does work for me. I am not one saying that it makes my buds huge or making them sweeter (this is certainly an old wives tale IMO). I do know or believe that used throughout the grow you will see a difference especially in organicaly living soil.
I invite you to start viewing my journal, I am part of the research group which has just started, for some reason the drop down for groups is not working at this time or I would enclose the link for it. I do also with your knowledge invite you to join our little group.
The members are interested in showing the results of expriements we are conducting in regard to much of the misinformation which runs rampant through the forum.
My study will use 2 clones from the same donor plant, the clones are 5 days apart but were put out to flower at the same height. One plant will be given molasses with each watering at 1 tbl per gallon of water. The other plant will only receive plain rain water.
I will be posting pics each week in my journal to show what if any differences occur (greener, bigger plant, overall health, etc). I hope that we can then show people the results that are obtained and then let them decide if it is worth the trouble and expense.
All are welcome to the group and all are invited to follow this over the next few months. The link to my grow journal is in my signature.

Molasses really isn't for "increasing yields". It's just a good amendment for organic soil gardeners because it's a readily available food source for living microbes in the soil. Microbes essentially decompose organic material making more nutrients available to the plants. There would really be no benefit with using molasses if you are using chemical fertilizer, because a lot of synthetic chemicals kill beneficial microbes and they aren't going to need food when they're dead. It's more of a fertilizer "booster" for organics than anything. Even in an organic garden where the microbes have enough food, there most likely won't be any noticeable difference in yield with the addition of molasses. Although beneficial in some situations, the use of molasses is really over-rated and isn't meant to increase yields for plants. By some situations, i essentially mean an organic garden where there is not enough food or diversity for the microbes.