testiclees
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Ive taken loads of brix readings on my ladies and at farmers markets for most of the growi g seaso over a few years..Refractometers are a very general assessment of nutritional content. Sap and tissue readings are far more legit. Perhaps molasses adds sugar to a plants vascular system. If you think that means its high brix, youre mistaken.What happens to potassium when it breaks down... look it up. There's also plenty of sugars in molasses which is the food stock and does raise brix levels by increasing bacteria population and utilizing trace minerals already in molasses via chelating. If you dig around early on in this thread you will see the Harvard studies on molasses and water and plants i posted.
Btw I use corn seed sst for raising brix levels . I only use molasses once or twice and that's it.
If you don't think molasses raises brix levels I highly suggest getting a brix meter and test it.
I already have a long time ago. And documented in one of my threads. @GreenSanta did as well.
Jon Frank and John Kempf are probably the best known high brix crop consultants in the usa. As far as i know you will not find molasses in their products. The role of the soil.microbes in bigh brix growing is to digest the mineral content in the growing media. Adding molasses has the opposite effect by offeriing the organisms donuts and soda rather than square meal..think about it