Do It Yourself Botanicare Sweet question

[MercDod]

I saw this on another forum and was wondering if anyone here has tried or knows antthing about it. I was also wondering if I could replace the sugar with unsulphured blackstrap molasses.
Any ideas?


"I posted this elsewhere, but it really belongs here. After seeing Botanicare Sweet at a local grow shop for $64 a gallon, I decided to figure out how it is made and make it myself. Turns out this was easy. It requires Epsom Salt and Cane Sugar. You put them in a pan with water, heat and stir until dissolved, add enough cold water to fill your 1 gallon jug and that's it. Be sure that the Epsom Salt you use is 100% Magnesium Sulfate, not the perfumed bath salts, just the single ingredient.

The label on a jug of Sweet tells the story:
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This is the 4 pound bag of Epsom Salt (from walmart, $2)
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This is the finished product, I poured it into a clear glass vase to see if there was any precipitate, there wasn't, it stayed clear and a nice clean-clear solution.
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If Botanicare was selling this for a more reasonable price or if the company advertised on my favorite website I probably would not have been motivated to research and post this.

[FONT=&quot] Formula to make 1 Gallon of Sweet[/FONT]

1 Teaspoon (4.3 grams) Cane Sugar
9 Tablespoons (151 grams) Epsom Salt (100% Magnesium Sulfate)

Add Cane Sugar and Epsom Salt to 4 cups of water and heat, stirring until completely dissolved. Allow to cool.

[FONT=&quot]Pour solution into a 1 gallon container and add water until it makes 1 gallon. Shake until mixed.

Shake well before using.[/FONT]


I used this solution in the reservoir of my hydro system and the plants are doing fine, they look the same as when I had been adding Sweet. :mrgreen:

If you want to see the method I used to derive the amounts, see this thread."

 

[Gmix]

All your link are invalid
Still you can use blackstrap molasses with cannabis a lot use to revitalise the soil as well as the sugar content

 

[MercDod]

All your link are invalid
Still you can use blackstrap molasses with cannabis a lot use to revitalise the soil as well as the sugar content

They weren't my links, they were a quote.
I just made this and I substituted with the Blackstrap Molassas. Hope it dosnt kill my plants, lol.

 

[dumber]

I saw this on another forum and was wondering if anyone here has tried or knows antthing about it. I was also wondering if I could replace the sugar with unsulphured blackstrap molasses.
Any ideas?


"I posted this elsewhere, but it really belongs here. After seeing Botanicare Sweet at a local grow shop for $64 a gallon, I decided to figure out how it is made and make it myself. Turns out this was easy. It requires Epsom Salt and Cane Sugar. You put them in a pan with water, heat and stir until dissolved, add enough cold water to fill your 1 gallon jug and that's it. Be sure that the Epsom Salt you use is 100% Magnesium Sulfate, not the perfumed bath salts, just the single ingredient.

The label on a jug of Sweet tells the story:


This is the 4 pound bag of Epsom Salt (from walmart, $2)


This is the finished product, I poured it into a clear glass vase to see if there was any precipitate, there wasn't, it stayed clear and a nice clean-clear solution.


If Botanicare was selling this for a more reasonable price or if the company advertised on my favorite website I probably would not have been motivated to research and post this.

[FONT=&quot] Formula to make 1 Gallon of Sweet[/FONT]

1 Teaspoon (4.3 grams) Cane Sugar
9 Tablespoons (151 grams) Epsom Salt (100% Magnesium Sulfate)

Add Cane Sugar and Epsom Salt to 4 cups of water and heat, stirring until completely dissolved. Allow to cool.

[FONT=&quot]Pour solution into a 1 gallon container and add water until it makes 1 gallon. Shake until mixed.

Shake well before using.[/FONT]


I used this solution in the reservoir of my hydro system and the plants are doing fine, they look the same as when I had been adding Sweet. :mrgreen:

If you want to see the method I used to derive the amounts, see this thread."

As for replacing the cane sugar with unsulphured blackstrap molasses , yeah, you can do that. Molasses works well as a carb source and also brings some potassium and trace minerals. Just start light because it can raise your EC more than plain sugar I’ve been running some The Seed Pharm autos lately in both soil and coco, and I’ve used both plain sugar and molasses versions with no issues. In living soil especially, molasses seems to feed the biology nicely.