should I use molasses or fox farm nutes?

that bear smokey

that bear smokey

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I have a lowryder#2 auto. She 4 weeks old and has a few flowers on her now. I am using fox farm ocean forest soil. I have her in a 2gallon pot. I wanted to if I should use molasses on her or just use the fox farm trio nutes. I have tiger bloom and big bloom aswell as open sesame, beastie blooms and cha ching. So what would better to use on her?Lowryder#2 day 25 (2).jpg
 
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MISSPHOEBE

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... from my experience with Molasses... it is good to use a bit WITH the nutes... as the Molasses is good for the 'soil and so helps the roots have the best chance of taking up those nutes..... they go together very well......but my friend ONLY uses molasses and he grows some of the most amazing weed I have ever seen.... :)
 
$waGgEr

$waGgEr

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both...only use the molassis 2 and 4 weeks prior to flower..you dont wana over do it and end up with ants in ur soil..go ligh on the FF nutes too..only .5 strenth
 
crazyhazey

crazyhazey

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that bear smokey said:
I have a lowryder#2 auto. She 4 weeks old and has a few flowers on her now. I am using fox farm ocean forest soil. I have her in a 2gallon pot. I wanted to if I should use molasses on her or just use the fox farm trio nutes. I have tiger bloom and big bloom aswell as open sesame, beastie blooms and cha ching. So what would better to use on her?View attachment 2076284
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molasses is great microbe food so yes and you wont need 5 different bloom nutes just one with high p and k
 
theonlineguy

theonlineguy

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crazyhazey said:
molasses is great microbe food so yes and you wont need 5 different bloom nutes just one with high p and k
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^ Agreed, Molasses helps create rich soil that is ALIVE, more or less. Just be careful indoors with soil and all those organic nutes youre using. Keep up with preventative measures.
 
that bear smokey

that bear smokey

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theonlineguy said:
^ Agreed, Molasses helps create rich soil that is ALIVE, more or less. Just be careful indoors with soil and all those organic nutes youre using. Keep up with preventative measures.
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so if I was going to just use nutes or just molasses. which it would it be? or what mix would be good? so I am not using all of it together.
 
theonlineguy

theonlineguy

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They are two different things really. Do a little research on molasses and how other growers use it, both for the plants, and the rootzone. But I would use both. Use your nutes as is, when you get to flowering start using molasses, start slow as always. Molasses will work well with your organic nutes. :D

While molasses is a "raw" product in itself (you can buy molasses as molasses at a hydrostore) nute companies do make replacements I guess or so you can say. They are sold as "sugars/carbo" at hydrostores, ex. bud candy, sweet. These usually have other good things for the plants ie vitamins, acids. iirc fox farm has several root zone products, but no specific sugar product. I might be mistaken though.
 
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JOKable25

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like $waGgEr said. And if you want to pick one, maybe consider starting off with Fox Farm and switching to molasses right before flowering (also used to sweeten the plant's flavor a bit).
 
that bear smokey

that bear smokey

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well you see my lowryder#2 has already started to flower. She is 4 weeks old today. I have a few bud sites on her already. I have not given any nutes yet. so should I give her alittle fox farm now? or just start using the molasses now?
 
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JOKable25

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if you decide to use foxfarm, dose it really low and stop it a couple of weeks before harvest so the soil can drain the nutes out properly. If you go with molasses...i would wait a little longer and use it till shes done.
 
that bear smokey

that bear smokey

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JOKable25 said:
if you decide to use foxfarm, dose it really low and stop it a couple of weeks before harvest so the soil can drain the nutes out properly. If you go with molasses...i would wait a little longer and use it till shes done.
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well someone told me to just use what it says on the fox farm feeding schedule for flowering stage.. It says 2tsp of big bloom and 2tsp of tiger bloom and a 1/4tsp of open sesame. so is that too much do you think?
 
roofwayne

roofwayne

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I put less then they say and see what happens. I use ff and less is better more. I put unsulfered molasses( kind you get at groc. store) in my soil mix and after transplant of seeding to first pot, until a couple week left in flower...rw
 
that bear smokey

that bear smokey

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roofwayne said:
I put less then they say and see what happens. I use ff and less is better more. I put unsulfered molasses( kind you get at groc. store) in my soil mix and after transplant of seeding to first pot, until a couple week left in flower...rw
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ok thank you for the help.
 
crazyhazey

crazyhazey

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everyone has a different way of using blackstrap molasses, its microbial food and micronutes in the end so i like using it in my compost tea for a better abundance of mycorrhyzae for a healthy root system. ive also heard of some people boiling their molasses into their nutes as well.
 
that bear smokey

that bear smokey

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crazyhazey said:
everyone has a different way of using blackstrap molasses, its microbial food and micronutes in the end so i like using it in my compost tea for a better abundance of mycorrhyzae for a healthy root system. ive also heard of some people boiling their molasses into their nutes as well.
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thank you for the reply...
 
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