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This sounds more like what I do. I use molasses(EJ MFP) every watering/feeding. I flush every 14 days. I use it at 5 ml/gallon all through flowering. Sometimes I wonder if I am clogging up the aeropots with this. I get a nice streak of molasses coloring when I flush too. Either way it's my food for the bene's.
Sunbiz1 do you use it during your flush? I am debating if I will this run. I haven't before. Anyone think it is more beneficial to use molasses/MFP while flushing for the first week, then just plain h2o for the 2nd week? Pros/Cons?
It's more than food for your bennies. Plants uptake sugars directly, too.
Very true Sea! I should have commented that it is a carb source as well! Good catch. So I guess no one uses molasses through to chop?
Yeah Sunbiz1 I wasn't trying to hijack. Just thought it was relevant to the topic. What does your soil test at NPK wise? Have you tested it?
I do. Or I should say that I use whatever sugar I have on hand through to chop.Very true Sea! I should have commented that it is a carb source as well! Good catch. So I guess no one uses molasses through to chop?
Yeah Sunbiz1 I wasn't trying to hijack. Just thought it was relevant to the topic. What does your soil test at NPK wise? Have you tested it?
The recipes given are for 5 gallon brews.
Bacterial Tea
1 ½ cups compost
¼ cup kelp meal
2 oz. blackstrap molasses
2 oz. fruit juice (apple)
¼ cup chopped feed hay
1 oz. fish emulsion
Fungal Tea
1 ½ cups fungal compost
2 oz. liquid humates
2 oz. blackstrap molasses
1 oz. yucca extracts
2 oz. fish hydrolysates
¼ cup kelp meal
¼ cup chopped feed hay
Bacterial/Fungal Tea
¾ cup compost
¾ cup fungal compost
¼ cup kelp meal
2 oz. liquid humates
2 oz. blackstrap molasses
2 oz. fish hydrolysates
¼ cup greensand
¼ cup chopped feed hay
I'm currently experimenting with some bottled enzyme products to see what works best and have some fun. In a three way melee going between Mayan Microzyme, Hygrozyme, and Voodoo Juice, the best results I've gotten so far are from a Voodoo Juice + Humboldt Honey + BD Thunder mixture. The Voodoo Juice seems to produce a lot more microbial life much quicker than the others, with Microzyme producing what looks like the least diverse populations. I feel they are all good products to consider though. Of course, Voodoo has a rather unattractive price tag, comparatively speaking. I notice no negligible difference between the Humboldt Honey and Earth Juice hi-brix molasses in regard to plant health/vigor/yield
I also feel that if one's diet is healthy & diverse enough, with a little help from a garden patch any home compost works just as well as the BD Thunder stuff. I was just drawn into the Rudolph Steiner name on the packaging, but it is a good product if one can't/doesn't compost
I also basically just used Guano's base recipes when I first started learning about Aerated Teas
I obviously use the Earth Juice instead of the food grade molasses, I use mushroom compost as well, and employ any old humic product I have laying around. The independent garden supply store I frequent carries bulk items such as rock dusts, glacial salts/dusts and all the bat/sea bird guanos that one needs to formulate flower and veg specific blends
While I would not dispute that some or all of the above is effective, I would still question how much is enough as opposed to too much.
Do you flush?
Me too holmes, that's why I'm running a side by side.
Flushing depends upon the medium I am running. I always prefer soil, and with pre-made mixes such as Roots or the like, to which I add bottled nutrients, I do flush with a 2/1 water to soil ratio, once at two weeks from scheduled due date to remove any build up in the media, then continue with about a gallon for each pot as they require nourishment (7/10 gallon is my norm) until they are ready for harvest. Water + Molasses week one, Water only last week. I use only Reverse Osmosis water as well.
I have yet to run a fully amended organic soil, so I can't speak to the matter according to any experience.
I employ flushing for two weeks minimum in hydro, otherwise I can taste whatever nutrient was used, and have a headache by the end of a joint. Last hydro run my homie did, he ran out of flower nutes 3 weeks out. He chose to pay his mortgage instead, rightfully so, and ended up with some of the best meds I've seen from hydro, and he's been growing as long as I've been breathing.
This is my experience, in no way am I suggesting it is better than any other method. It's simply what I do based on my needs/preferences
Earth flush! How do you?
I'm diluting the MBE and getting it going onto all my OD gals. Lap it up. Peaches.
My concern with soil flush has always been stripping all of nutrients and microbes without replacing them at the most critical time. When I water a 5 or a 7 gal, a fair amount of water comes out all of the drilled holes anyways. So in sense, it's sort of a continual mini-flush I guess. If I used bottled nutes, I would probably flush as you do..then hit them with molasses again.
Earth flush! How do you?
I view cannabis in the same way. Flushing manipulates biological activity, period. Whether one regard it as good/bad, necessary/unecessary is a matter of your personal experience. It's what I was taught by very experienced people, so I stick to it, but maybe I'll not flush one plant and do a taste+smokability+potency comparison on my next indoor to see if I should consider new methods.
I'm going to do this now, I have 2 identical plants ready for flush and one needs water.
Thanks for the tips,
I'm here to learn and you taught me today.
One teaspoon every feeding.. I am surprised more people haven't jumped onto the Earth Juice High brix molasses.. the stuff is only $15 a gallon.. 100% unsulphured molasses..
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