Molasses Question

I have become interested in molasses due to all the good things I read about it. My questions about the molasses are how much molasses would you mix with the water, can you use molasses when you are "flushing" the plant with pure water, and is it all worth it?

I also have chosen to go with Jack's Dynamic Duo for my fertilizer, hopefully it aids me well.

I use 1 tbsp per gal every other watering and I stop the last couple weeks and just go with water

I am using Black Strap Molasses

TCurtiss said:

I use 1 tbsp per gal every other watering and I stop the last couple weeks and just go with water

I am using Black Strap Molasses

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are you growing in soil? i also am interested in using molasses but am on flow tables. how much in 100gal?

I am using soil

100 tbsp for 100 gallons so you will have to calculate

TCurtiss said:

I use 1 tbsp per gal every other watering and I stop the last couple weeks and just go with water

I am using Black Strap Molasses

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Why do you stop 2 weeks before harvest? Thats the most important time to be using it.

Why do you stop 2 weeks before harvest? Thats the most important time to be using it.

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hes right... mollases as ur flush.. dont mind the dog shit smell that comes along with it.. its normal

The way I understood it, molasses is organic so it can not be absorbed by plants directly without being broken down by microbes first. With hydro you generally want to keep a sterile res, unless you are doing bio buckets. Adding molasses to a sterile res would only pollute it and invite root disease.

Just what i've gathered from reading.

darkdestruction420 said:

Why do you stop 2 weeks before harvest? Thats the most important time to be using it.

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Interesting???.............I will give it a try I know it can't hurt

Thank you

Heisenberg said:

The way I understood it, molasses is organic so it can not be absorbed by plants directly without being broken down by microbes first. With hydro you generally want to keep a sterile res, unless you are doing bio buckets. Adding molasses to a sterile res would only pollute it and invite root disease.

Just what i've gathered from reading.

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That makes sense, but I'm doing a soil grow. I read information about people who stop giving nutes a few weeks before they harvest but would I have to stop with molasses? And does this make a noticeable difference, as in is it worth the effort?

rupert pupkin said:

are you growing in soil? i also am interested in using molasses but am on flow tables. how much in 100gal?

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You do not want to use molasses in A hydro setup nothing but bad things will happen.
As far as everybody using mollases with soil I feel it dont benefit much or at all if so.

lollapalooza said:

That makes sense, but I'm doing a soil grow. I read information about people who stop giving nutes a few weeks before they harvest but would I have to stop with molasses? And does this make a noticeable difference, as in is it worth the effort?

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Yes you should keep using it and yes, its worth it, otherwise we wouldnt all do it.
It's main benefits are that it helps feed microbacteria in your soil that through their digestion process take stuff the plant couldnt orwould have difficulty absorbing into easy for the plant to absorb things. It also contains some trace elements and some small levels of nutrients which helps you make it through the flush w/o it messing up the plant if it start running out of things it still needs to early.