honey over molasses?
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SouthCross
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Don't see why not. I've used some in a tea one time. Didn't notice anything different. It's just a lot more expensive then cane sugar or black strap.
vostok
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drew55
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what does that mean
Richard Drysift
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If you are brewing aerated compost teas adding in a form of sucrose for microbes to feed on can quickly increase their numbers. You can use honey, brown sugar, natural maple syrup or maple sugar instead of molassses. Any natural form of sucrose will work its just that molasses is thick, viscous, and super sticky which gives microbes something to hold on to at the molecular level when it is diluted in water. Use what you have but don't add sucrose to the soil directly; that will promote anaerobic bacteria which is a bad thing....
The best time to give an AACT is during mid to late veg phase and early to mid flowering. Oh wait...what? you use nutrients? Ok then just disregard all of this and keep on using your nutes as directed. There's no need to bother feeding microbes if none are present.
OrganicGorilla
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Lol... Molasses is used to feed the microbes man. If you are using bottled nutes, you may as well forget using molasses or honey...
Richard Drysift
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Whoever said that doesn't know what they are talking about...if you want dense sticky buds use proper lighting. If you want the best flavors ditch your nutes and grow organic
Roger A. Shrubber
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if you used molasses every single time you watered, its possible the plant could pick up a molasses flavour, but it wouldn't add any density to your buds, or make them any stickier. the only real purpose to using either is to feed beneficial organisms you're running in your medium. if you aren't using benes, no real reason to use honey or mollasses.
and while molasses may add minute traces of some nutes, thats all it adds, minute traces....
and while molasses may add minute traces of some nutes, thats all it adds, minute traces....
chemphlegm
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best weed I ever grew or smoked had nothing to do with a kitchen pantry, just saying.
In a proper tea, a proper substrate even, if fed correctly will have all the food microbes will ever need.
a handful of compost contains them, bubbled poop contains them, healthy peat/dirt does too.
In a proper tea, a proper substrate even, if fed correctly will have all the food microbes will ever need.
a handful of compost contains them, bubbled poop contains them, healthy peat/dirt does too.
Kerovan
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Yes, that is another very good point.
