Sugar and sorts

GROBRO6967

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I was reading how to get Stronger smelling buds in growweedeasy.com and it says to add sugar or molasses 2-3 weeks before harvest but not during flushing. I wanted to flower for a month or a month and a half. Does this mean I should add the sugar or molasses 2-3 weeks before I flush?
 

go go kid

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molasses is what you want with ewc and some seaweed solution in the mix, bibble air through it in a bucket. lookup compost tea's or organic teas for feeding your plants. im just starting to getthe ingrediance together for this way of feeding.
but you can feed just plane molasses and water, i believe its 1 table sppoon to 5 galons of water. i could be way off dso wait for confermation or how ive got it terrably wrong.
many organic growers willingto offer info on the subject, so it wont be long.
but do look up molasses and organic teas in the search engine
 

Herb & Suds

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Not exactly I molasses are best used in veg to make the plant stronger
A stronger plant certainly has a stronger smell
Never use sugar it doesn't break down the way a plant needs
Molasses or sweets in late flower is a great way to cause lockout
I wouldn't encourage it

EDIT : Flush your toilet not your plant
 

Funkentelechy

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Molasses is valuable for feeding beneficial microbes, specifically beneficial bacteria. It is not really a plant food, you don't use it to feed plants, you use it to feed the bacteria that feed your plants, the bacteria in turn breaks down raw elements in your soil into a usable form for the plants to use.

However, the claim that molasses should be used to "get Stronger smelling buds" is somewhat misleading, as this would only be true if your soil was so devoid of beneficial bacteria that your plant was unable to uptake the nutrients it needs in sufficient quantities during flowering, this is unlikely. Most soil, if you are growing organically, has sufficient populations of bacteria to facilitate this process, the molasses simply adds a boost. And, if you are using chemical fertilizers the discussion is moot as chemical fertilizers do not rely on microbial activity, similarly chelated organic fertilizers don't require microbes to break down raw elements into a usable form.

Molasses is really useful for making teas, or other processes that are used to break down raw amendments into food for your plants. Keep in mind however that molasses feeds bacteria, but not fungi, so if you are trying to increase the mycorrhizal activity in your soil, molasses will not help.

Hopefully, this doesn't come off as too discouraging. Molasses can be a helpful tool in organic growing, but unfortunately, many online sources have latched onto it and promote molasses as some kind of household item that is a cure-all organic amendment, which it is not in my opinion. It is useful in organic gardening, but it is unlikely that if your buds weren't as smelly as they could be that molasses is what is missing.
I call that claim misleading.
 
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