Blackstrap molasses is of great benefit to the plant. It is a great source of calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron, and usable carbohydrates.the molasses is for the micro-herd not the plant.
The plant will benefit from it's use in all stages.
Blackstrap molasses is of great benefit to the plant. It is a great source of calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron, and usable carbohydrates.the molasses is for the micro-herd not the plant.
Blackstrap molasses is of great benefit to the plant. It is a great source of calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron, and usable carbohydrates.
The plant will benefit from it's use in all stages.
i think its really more about the benefits the molasses adds to the herd than achieving a sugary taste
does it sweeten the grass for real homie? i'd be interested to hear. my most flavorful sour is very well flushed with plain water.
Blackstrap molasses is of great benefit to the plant. It is a great source of calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron, and usable carbohydrates.
The plant will benefit from it's use in all stages.
Many may argue the only reason to use BS molasses is to feed the mycorrhizae, but I content that a healthy growing medium and plant will take care of it's own herd.
And I can also produce fine healthy weed without the aid of additional microorganisms.
See, the "micro herd" as it is referred to, acts as a chelate and helps the plant uptake essential nutrients.
There are 3 fundamental ways plants uptake nutrients through the root: 1.) simple diffusion, occurs when a nonpolar molecule, such as O2, CO2, and NH3 that follow a concentration gradient, can passively move through the lipid bilayer membrane without the use of transport proteins. 2.) facilitated diffusion, is the rapid movement of solutes or ions following a concentration gradient, facilitated by transport proteins. 3.) Active transport, is the active transport of ions or molecules against a concentration gradient that requires an energy source, usually ATP, to pump the ions or molecules through the membrane.[4]
-baba kuThe only thing that flushing with molasses could possibly add to the taste is the chemical nasty. Mg is known to make buds taste crackly harsh, and BS has a good dose of Mg and other nutrients.
Come on...get a better grip. This is not elementary school here. And this aint my first carnival.ok, so every chloroplast needs Mg. No Mg, no chloroplast. No chloroplast, no leaf, no bud. You cannot make buds without N, and you cannot make buds without Mg.
lol...let me ask you, do you even grow any pot, mad?
if your plants were healthy without molasses, would you introduce it and expect some sort of improvement?
See, the "micro herd" as it is referred to, acts as a chelate and helps the plant uptake essential nutrients
example: plant prefers nitrate to ammonium for N at this stage in its growth (as in certain trees). so the plant feeds bacteria through its root exudates, and those bacteria create a slime made of polysachharides. That raises the immediate pH, and when it hits 7, ammonium is converted readily by specialised bacteria to the preferred nitrate. Ammonium is around because a vorticella is going around sweeping up hapless bacteria with its weird mustache wheels. She is gobbling up life forms as she goes, and grabbing their carbon (the foundation of life). She is left with more nitrogen than she needs, which she excretes from a vacuole as ammonium, which feeds the bacteria... After some years, the tree matures, and comes to prefer ammonium. Instead of moving, it just stops feeding the bacteria so much, and hopefully people have let it mulch itself or have given it plenty of wood mulch. The acids from the digestion of the mulch lower the pH, and ammonium stays as ammonium. The vorticella speeds by and grabs hold of something or other. she hangs on to it and spins her wheels...
I'm not sure if you realize this, but you are talking in an "organic soil" forum. A large portion of your audience, myself included, can harvest a plant (of say, chamomile), let the pot sit a month with a top dressing, and drop in another plant. We can't withhold ferts at the end of flower because we don't hold the ferts, the soil does, and the plant does the asking, and the microherd delivers up the nutes to order. We are facilitators, but we don't feed our plants. The soil does that. In fact, every time we use the soil, it improves
Ammonium is around because a vorticella is going around sweeping up hapless bacteria with its weird mustache wheels. She is gobbling up life forms as she goes, and grabbing their carbon (the foundation of life). She is left with more nitrogen than she needs, which she excretes from a vacuole as ammonium, which feeds the bacteria...
I believe you intended to say 'which feeds the plant...' [although there is actually some back feeding of bacteria]. Also flagellates and naked amoebae are probably more common soil protozoa than Vorticella - but she is lovely.