molassus
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canefan
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Molasses can be used during all stages of growing and flowering. The recommended dosage is usually regarded as being 1 tblspn per gallon of water. I personally use molasses throughout the grow as it as other benefits than simply being to fatten up buds. First off if you are growing in soil, it is very benefical for the soil. Also, it is great for your microrganisms in the soil, then last but certainly not least gives the plant many of the sugars needed to develop roots, cellulose for your stems and lastly the extra sugars to produce resin in the bud areas. Here is one of many links available on the benefits and usage of molasses. Good Luck and Happy Growing
https://www.rollitup.org/organics/113468-molasses-plant-carbohydrates-b-com.html
https://www.rollitup.org/organics/113468-molasses-plant-carbohydrates-b-com.html
Waste of effort adding molasses when you're using chemical supplements like tigerbloom and cha ching. With chemicals your microherd is non-existent.
heathaa
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yeah i was using peters fertilizer but i was barely using it. i was about 4 weeks into flowering and it was the first time i gave it to them. over the next thirty six hours they doubled in size and the top cola almost tripled in size
tybudz
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Im confused. so ff nutes are not organis??
BusterBawls
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I run molasses in veg and bud. I run an aero/nft system, so I use 1tsp per gal and hygrozyme. I tried 1tbsp per gallon but I got a slime build up. But if ur using soil u could probably use as much as 2tbsp per gallon.
Of the FF solubles you use, only one. It's one of the trio. FF got caught with their pants down when the cannabis nutrient supplement market headed towards organics. Many indoor growers have switched to organics (demand by states allowing medical marijuana and organic oriented cannabis users). Organic weed is now popular, for whatever reasons.
Weedoozie
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Organic weed has always been popular, many just didn't realize it. Smoking organic weed is smoking some GOOD shit. Most people who get their bud don't know if their buds are organic unless its mentioned. After smoking it though, they know its good shit but don't know why. Its because organics taste and smell better than buds grown with chemical fertilizers. Flushing throughout the grow has a lot to do with it. Molasses, guano, bone/blood meal, earthworm castings, and beneficial buggies are within the medium of an organic grow and they really help produce DANK. Especially because chemicals kill the natural bugs living in the soils who (most don't know) do a lot to help in producing those flowers we love so much
From my viewpoint, you're preaching to the choir. With the exception of using Alaska Fish Fertilizer before I understood the difference of a heat produced emulsion compared to a fish hydrolysate, I've always been an organic grower. I do disagree with your statement on flushing being a requirement for organic growing. With a grow medium that provides plants with all requirements and AACT applications to ensure the microherd in that medium flourishes, there's no need for flushing an organic grow. Flushing an organic grow is a hydro (chemical) mindset.
Weedoozie
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I don't know man, I like to make it rain because I think it simulates nature's season changing from summer to fall to winter. Making it rain on the plants a lot towards the end of flowering signals the plants that winter is coming and I think that causes them to use up every last bit of their strength to make fatter/sweeter/THC-coated buds. This is what I understand to be true from reading a bunch about growing on this site, other sites, and cannabis books I've read. Your opinion may be different but have you tried flushing with organics? It may not be seen as necessary but I think it gives the buds something extra
I don't know man, I like to make it rain because I think it simulates nature's season changing from summer to fall to winter. Making it rain on the plants a lot towards the end of flowering signals the plants that winter is coming and I think that causes them to use up every last bit of their strength to make fatter/sweeter/THC-coated buds. This is what I understand to be true from reading a bunch about growing on this site, other sites, and cannabis books I've read. Your opinion may be different but have you tried flushing with organics? It may not be seen as necessary but I think it gives the buds something extra
Any annual plant I'm familiar with, including cannabis, has a life cycle determined by photoperiodicity, which is the physiological reaction of organisms to the length of day or night. Flowering (buds) THC content is a matter of genetics, nothing else.
After building a living soil that meets all plant requirements throughout its life cycle, and can be reused, why would I want to attempt flushing out any of those requirements? The plant is always in control, my efforts being limited to providing adequate sun and water while strengthening the microbe colonies that deliver its requirements with ACCT applications.
Weedoozie
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I'm glad you grow organic, and it's not a matter of flushing out the nutrients in the soil, its a matter of raining on the plant more often to make it believe the seasons are changing
I realize the THC content is found in the genetics but certain practices can bring out the full THC potential of the plant such as making the plant think it's going to die soon in order to produce as much THC as it can before it does die/get chopped down. You know THC is a defense mechanism right? It was evolutionarily designed to help the female cannabis plant pick up pollen in the air in order to produce seeds. If the female plant is unfertilized and thinks it going to die soon (by raining more often, temps dropping, less light), it will use all its resourses and built up energy to make THC I think its facinating
I realize the THC content is found in the genetics but certain practices can bring out the full THC potential of the plant such as making the plant think it's going to die soon in order to produce as much THC as it can before it does die/get chopped down. You know THC is a defense mechanism right? It was evolutionarily designed to help the female cannabis plant pick up pollen in the air in order to produce seeds. If the female plant is unfertilized and thinks it going to die soon (by raining more often, temps dropping, less light), it will use all its resourses and built up energy to make THC
I think its facinatingI'm glad you grow organic, and it's not a matter of flushing out the nutrients in the soil, its a matter of raining on the plant more often to make it believe the seasons are changing
I realize the THC content is found in the genetics but certain practices can bring out the full THC potential of the plant such as making the plant think it's going to die soon in order to produce as much THC as it can before it does die/get chopped down. You know THC is a defense mechanism right? It was evolutionarily designed to help the female cannabis plant pick up pollen in the air in order to produce seeds. If the female plant is unfertilized and thinks it going to die soon (by raining more often, temps dropping, less light), it will use all its resourses and built up energy to make THC
Sorry, I'm not a rain dance believer. Plants don't 'think'. Only photoperiodicity, starvation, drought or physical harm has any affect on annual plants. If the female is stressed enough, it fertilizes itself and produces its own seeds for species regeneration.
