100% Sucrose

Just wondering about 100% sucrose as an additive much along the lines of molasses. My local Home Depot sells Hummingbird Nectar which states is "100% Sucrose". It is a liquid you add water to. Just wondering if you used that instead of molasses would it be better, worse, or really no difference???

It should provide the same benefit.

although i've not used either method, but i'm fairly sure molasses is just a way to supply sugars to the roots, so perhaps there is something about the way molasses does that that is specific to molasses, which means sucrose wont work as well...but my bet is you could use the 100% sucrose.

Is it colored red though? I'd avoid anything with pointless food coloring in it, you can probably just make a sugar solution of your own, from a 89 cent bag of storebought sugar. I'd go with unprocessed, not white sugar though.

molasses is unrefined, the nectar is the same thing as table sugar which is processed to hell. Stick with molasses or unrefined cane sugar it is tried and true!

man, why do companies feel the need to process the hell out of everything?

no shit, I feel the same way!

Please don't feed Mary that red (highly processed) stuff. Briar Rabbit Molasses (is a good quality unsulphured molasses) available at just about every grocery store, even Wally World. Mix one ounce to one gallon of chlorine free water, shake it up & water in. NPK 5-1-3 full of trace minerals & it smells nice. Feeds the microorganisms in your soil. If your soil is sterile, add worm castings first - then the molasses mix.
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