NorthernGreener
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Hey folks, I've been reading about using Molasses in my grow and since this is my first grow I'm just looking for everyone's thought for and against using, thanks in advance.
I'm interested in your thoughts on this? I bought some unsulfured blackstrap am planning to use 15ml/gal during flower added to base nutrients.Molasses, just say no.
There is no secret sauce. I've grown the same weed 10 different ways and the result is weed you can't differentiate. Cure for 7 days. Or cure for 6 months. Hydro. Promix. Fancy feed. Simple feed. Spray. No spray. If you grow it right. It's right. If you mess it up. It will let you know. If you let it grow up strong and healthy it doesn't matter how you do it. It all works. Just find what you like. Get more tents if you can. It's fun.Thanks for the feedback. That's maybe depressing, but....
If I'm honest with myself, I'm just this casual grower who is having a good time watching the grass grow. My methods usually lack scientific reasoning, and I'm impat ient and always want to mess with things. If I had more space I would be tempted to get more tents just so I had more plants to play with. I read some neat blogs so now I expect this $12 bottle of molasses to unlock world class flower of such quality as to invoke jealously in all who smell it. </s>
P.S. - I'm still putting on my plants.
I feel pretty certain that I have noticed the quality of my flower increase around the 30 day mark in the jar. This could be an indication that I'm not treating it properly before the jar, of course.There is no secret sauce. I've grown the same weed 10 different ways and the result is weed you can't differentiate. Cure for 7 days. Or cure for 6 months. Hydro. Promix. Fancy feed. Simple feed. Spray. No spray. If you grow it right. It's right. If you mess it up. It will let you know. If you let it grow up strong and healthy it doesn't matter how you do it. It all works. Just find what you like. Get more tents if you can. It's fun.
I also felt like my extended curing was a plus. But I asked others. They're notice anything less than a 7 day cure as harshness. They prefer weed within 8 weeks of harvest. And when I pulled out my 1 year cured Banner it was fine. But smoked more like tobacco than an oily smokey joint of the fresh kush. Furthermore when it's day 4 drying and you pinch of some dry buts from the outside of a nug people find that to be super smooth and tasty. And you literally have a few hours window to sample that piece before it sweats.I feel pretty certain that I have noticed the quality of my flower increase around the 30 day mark in the jar. This could be an indication that I'm not treating it properly before the jar, of course.
I mean it is bio matter. On the commercial scale it has claimed benefits. Help a field process manure or something. And simple sugars are used by soil bacteria. I've just never noticed a difference. With or without. If you had a fallowed field and you had horticultural molasses and wanted to use it out there the research papers are there in PDF for all to see.When I first read about Molasses during flowering I thought it was supposed to bring out the flavor as I've read further it seems it's more about making my soil more lively and help my plants grow stronger and help with absorption but there seems to be no real hard evidence to support that it will help my already healthy plants if anyone can change my mind on the subject please go ahead and try
Have you found a way to use wood ash in any beneficial way? Had an old neighbour show me once. But didn't really retain it.I start with a compost bin full of worm castings, then add hardwood wood chips and other organic materials like ground up leaves, grass clippings, rabbit poop, a couple of hundred worms and table scraps to feed the worms in a large pot of living soil. If you are doing this kind of organic growing adding a little Un sulfured molasses to feed soil microbes is a great way to keep your soil happy and alive. I also plant a cover crop of clover on top. This makes things happen, if you look after and feeding worms in the your soil in this kind of grow you feed the microbes in the soil sugar, not the plant. It's just a little different way of looking at things. If you are growing in anything other than living soil like this don't give the plant molasses. These pots are put together in the spring and tended to for a year before seedlings are transplanted into them the fallowing spring. I do things like boil egg shells, put the water and shells in a blender then water my pot with it. This is a way of adding Calcium a little at a time the first year. I also water with 1 TBS of Epson salts once in a while to help with Magnesium. I feed my worms Avocados, They love them and breed like crazy. There are more little tricks but this kind of grow is not for everyone. It takes patients and a lot of time.
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This depends on 100% how you are growing, If you are a semi organic chemical farmer, molasses (black strap preferred) will be beneficial for your microbes. The theory behind molasses at the end of the cycle is to kick the microbes into gear and get them to convert the last of the nutes in the soil into something useable by the plant. This leads to expending the nutes at the end of the cycle.When I first read about Molasses during flowering I thought it was supposed to bring out the flavor as I've read further it seems it's more about making my soil more lively and help my plants grow stronger and help with absorption but there seems to be no real hard evidence to support that it will help my already healthy plants if anyone can change my mind on the subject please go ahead and try
Wood ash adds potassium. Molasses as stated is to feed microbes in living soil.Have you found a way to use wood ash in any beneficial way? Had an old neighbour show me once. But didn't really retain it.
Good to know. Organic is way more complex than I know.Not for Cannabis plants. I always thought wood ash was acid. Turns out wood ash is very alkaline. You may get away with a little in the compost bin but it would mess up the grow pot acidity.
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