Flushing with Sugar?

Harley Smith talks about using cane molasses as a flushing agent. Harley also said that he doesn't give his plants a final flush.

"Carbohydrate supplements are also beneficial when flushing excess mineral salts from the root zone. Simply add a little cane molasses to water and use it in your soil drench, preferably with a little yucca extract."

lusidghost said:

Harley Smith talks about using cane molasses as a flushing agent. Harley also said that he doesn't give his plants a final flush.

"Carbohydrate supplements are also beneficial when flushing excess mineral salts from the root zone. Simply add a little cane molasses to water and use it in your soil drench, preferably with a little yucca extract."

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there are beneficial microbes like LABs and PNSB that can survive high-salt environments (like saurkraut), so there could be something to it

My girls rarely get "candy", afraid they'll get hyper and break sumpin!

Sugars are a good carbon source for your microbiome, but a lot of people have switched from things like molasses to barley extract since, in addition to the carbs, it has active enzymes, chitin, polyphenols, etc. But using molasses for flushing is an OLD OLD hippy thing. I would not be surprised if George Cervantes promotes it in one of his books. Pre harvest flushing is pointless. Even if you are "flushing" to reduce soil PPMS, you don't want to flush with plain water or god forbid, molasses water, you want to flush with nutrient solution mixed to the PH and PPM you are targeting.