blackstrap molasses

tomascat said:

hey ace ya dont need to folar feed at all unless ur killing mites etc. roots is where the shit happens 1st, bigger the root, bigger the fruit and that's a fact,

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chuck estevez said:

funny that a leading organic soil Dr. recommends NO MOLASSES in her tea

Compost Tea Basic Recipe
A basic tea recipe would be as follows, with the understanding that if larger or smaller quantities of water are used, change the amounts of additives relative to the amount of water.

a. 25 gallons of water, aerated to remove chlorine, add two teaspoons of a humic acid solution (preferably humic acid extracted from your own compost).

b. 1 to 2 tablespoons of humic acid diluted in 2 cups of water BEFORE adding to the compost tea water OR 1 to 2 tablespoons of fish hydrolysate (pre-diluted to neutralize the acid preservative according to the label on the container).

c. 1/2 cup of kelp mixed in 5 cups of water BEFORE addition to the compost tea

d. 5 pounds of good aerobic (good smelling, like deep forest soil) compost with excellent bacteria, fungi, protozoa in the compost. Using a microscope, assess the compost: Using a 1:5 dilution of compost, 400X total magnification, there should be a MINIMUM of thousands of bacteria in each field of view, 1 strand of fungal hyphae in each 5 fields, 1 flagellate or amoebae in each 5 to 10 fields of view and 1 beneficiall nematode per drop.

Additional foods if needed to improve fungi: 1 cup steel cut oats, or bran flour, or shrimp shells (no protein on the shells!) put in the compost bag with the compost

Replace humic acids with the same amount of fish hydrolysate if the plants need a nitrogen boost

NO MOLASSES!!!!!!!!

Compost Extract
1. Place the compost (please test so you know the compost contains the organisms needed as indicated above) in the compost bag (0.5 to 1 pound per 5 gallons of water)

2. Briskly massage the bag for 30 seconds to a minute

3. Check the tea to make sure it has the organisms needed.

4. If not enough organisms, then extract another 0.5 to 1 pound, repeat if necessary until organisms reach minimum or desired levels.

5. Apply.

6. If the compost you are using has good sets of organisms in it, perform the procedure above.

7. But if you do not know if your compost is good or not, then add foods (humic acid or fish hydrolysate, or steel ground oats, or bran or.....whatever fungal food desired) to the compost 3 to 7 days before extracting (good air flow around the compost, don't let it get stinky).

http://www.soilfoodweb.com/Compost_Tea_Recipe.html

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Ace Yonder said:

I think that people mess up suggested dose because so many people confuse unsulfured and blackstrap (Blackstrap is ALSO unsulfured, but unsulfured isn't always also blackstrap), and they THINK they are using blackstrap molasses when they are actually using regular table molasses like Grandma's, where real blackstrap molasses has about 7 times the nutrient density. For instance, regular unsulfured molasses (Grandma's, Brer Rabbit, etc.) has 110mg/tbs Potassium, while real Blackstrap Molasses (Plantation, Wholesome Sweeteners) has 730mg/tbs Potassium. Blackstrap molasses also has MUCh higher levels of trace minerals, and is much more effective as a chelating agent. So lots of people are using the shitty table molasses, and having to use WAY more to get the effect, and then reccomending much too high of a dose for those who are using the real stuff. It's like they think they are drinking Smirnoff Vodka, but actually are drinking Smirnoff Ice, and then are telling other people "You need to drink like 5 bottles of Smirnoff Vodka to get even a little drunk" not realizing that the stuff they are drinking only has 5% Alcohol instead of the real Vodka's 40%.

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Ace Yonder said:

I think that people mess up suggested dose because so many people confuse unsulfured and blackstrap (Blackstrap is ALSO unsulfured, but unsulfured isn't always also blackstrap), and they THINK they are using blackstrap molasses when they are actually using regular table molasses like Grandma's, where real blackstrap molasses has about 7 times the nutrient density. For instance, regular unsulfured molasses (Grandma's, Brer Rabbit, etc.) has 110mg/tbs Potassium, while real Blackstrap Molasses (Plantation, Wholesome Sweeteners) has 730mg/tbs Potassium. Blackstrap molasses also has MUCh higher levels of trace minerals, and is much more effective as a chelating agent. So lots of people are using the shitty table molasses, and having to use WAY more to get the effect, and then reccomending much too high of a dose for those who are using the real stuff. It's like they think they are drinking Smirnoff Vodka, but actually are drinking Smirnoff Ice, and then are telling other people "You need to drink like 5 bottles of Smirnoff Vodka to get even a little drunk" not realizing that the stuff they are drinking only has 5% Alcohol instead of the real Vodka's 40%.

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shonuff_305 said:

So you use blackstrap molasses and milk once every two weeks in place of of watering cycle.

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Bodyne said:

Grandmas will work, with a recipe found on this site, mixed with epsom salts. I ran out of Blackstrap and used grannys, all I had, plants did fine, was using megacrop, that might have helped too. But its still cheaper and tasted better than using sweet.
1 tbs molasses

6 tbs epsom salt

1tsp per gallon every watering, have done up to 2 tsp.

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