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 Jeff Funk
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 First Time Blackstrap Molasses User HELP 
#288948 - 09/30/09 12:59 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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About a week ago I added about 16 females to the flower room but this time I'm experimenting with blackstrap molasses. All of them look healthy except one so I pulled out the net pot to check out the roots, and notice they have a brownish build up with a little bit of white that appear to be sugar crystals. My question is... Is this normal? I used one tablespoon molasses for every gallon of mix used. Again the other 15 look healthy but the buildup around the roots is something new for me and I was wondering should I cut back on molasses.
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 Harry_Ba11sach
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Re: First Time Blackstrap Molasses User HELP [Re: Jeff Funk]
#289195 - 09/30/09 02:28 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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How much molasses are you giving them?
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SmOakland
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Re: First Time Blackstrap Molasses User HELP [Re: Jeff Funk]
#289201 - 09/30/09 02:41 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Jeff Funk said:
I used one tablespoon molasses for every gallon of mix used.
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Harry_Ba11sach
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Re: First Time Blackstrap Molasses User HELP [Re: SmOakland]
#289203 - 09/30/09 02:42 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Jeff Funk
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Re: First Time Blackstrap Molasses User HELP [Re: Harry_Ba11sach]
#289234 - 09/30/09 03:36 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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anybody with any experience with blackstrap
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Harry_Ba11sach
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Re: First Time Blackstrap Molasses User HELP [Re: Jeff Funk]
#289239 - 09/30/09 03:44 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've used it, but not in a setup like you, I used it in hempy buckets with great results but it sounds like you're using aeroponic or DWC?
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Jeff Funk
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Re: First Time Blackstrap Molasses User HELP [Re: Harry_Ba11sach]
#289460 - 09/30/09 10:48 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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aeroponic
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SmOakland
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Re: First Time Blackstrap Molasses User HELP [Re: Jeff Funk]
#289701 - 10/01/09 09:29 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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I thought the point of molasses was to help the beneficial fungi and bacteria in the soil. i don't really know what it would do in aeroponics except provide a little bit on nutrition.
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Harry_Ba11sach
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Re: First Time Blackstrap Molasses User HELP [Re: SmOakland]
#289712 - 10/01/09 09:47 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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no it does much more than that. Plants internally produce glucose and sucrose via the photosynthetic pathway (not directly, but down the line a bit) so feeding them sugar on their roots theoretically reduces the amount of sugars they have to produce and increases yield and flavor accordingly.
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reagoopi
Registered: 10/05/08
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 Re: First Time Blackstrap Molasses User HELP [Re: Jeff Funk]
#289805 - 10/01/09 01:07 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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It helps to have a TDS (total dissolved solids) meter
reading. A whole tablespoon may be too much, I'm not
sure, but it seems like quite a good bit.
It's strange that only a single plant would be
affected... have you checked the others to see
if anything similar is happening?
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Jeff Funk
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Re: First Time Blackstrap Molasses User HELP [Re: reagoopi]
#290555 - 10/02/09 12:44 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well I've read on here before that one tablespoon per gallon was about right. Yesterday I added five gallons to the reservoir, this time only using 3 tablespoons. The one plant that was looking bad died so it obviously was a sick one, the other 15 are still doing great.
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