Sugars play a crucial role in plant growth and development, with their levels being both temporally and spatially regulated. They are primarily synthesized by autotrophic organisms in the reactions of photosynthesis, which drives the growth and development of plants. Sugars, such as trehalose-6-phosphate (T6P), are important signaling metabolites involved in the regulation of plant growth.
Sugars have been suggested to have a central role in overall plant growth and development for decades. High sugar levels in plant tissues enhance the plant immune response against fungal pathogens and may affect floral transition by activating or inhibiting genes that control floral transition. They also establish the ratio of a plant’s below ground and above ground growth (roots to shoots).
Glucose affects plant growth and induces delays in the development of juvenile to vegetative phases. It induces the synthesis of chlorophyll, rubisco, and other essential compounds. Changes in sugar concentration affect cell division, germination, vegetative growth, flowering, and aging processes, often independently of metabolic processes.
Sugar application to the root system results in over-expression of genes that induce defense mechanisms within the plant. Sugar spraying can stimulate growth and development, resulting in an overall accelerated life cycle of annual plants. Sugar signals regulate developmental processes such as floral transition, which are crucial for plant yield.
In conclusion, sugars play a significant role in plant growth and development, with their regulation by enzymes and transporters playing a crucial role in regulating plant growth and development.
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What are the 3 types of sugars in plants?
Plants produce various sugars, including ribose, glucose, fructose, and sucrose, which are polysaccharides. The main product of photosynthesis is glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate, which can be synthesized into glucose, sucrose, and fructose. Allcarbohydrates, which are the basic structure of these compounds, have a number of carbons. The most common sugars in plants are ribose, glucose, fructose, and sucrose. Other compounds are composed of polymers of these and related sugars.
The type of sugar depends on whether the double-bonded oxygen is terminal or interior among the carbons. Aldehyde-containing carbohydrates are known as aldoses, while ketoses contain ketone-containing ones.
What type of sugar is best for plants?
Molasses is a frequently utilized sugar-based fertilizer due to its non-toxic nature, high carbohydrate content, and the essential vitamins and nutrients it provides to soil and crops.
What happens to excess sugar in plants?
Plants store excess glucose as starch, which is stored in cell walls, trunks, or roots. This stored starch is then utilized by the plant or animals that consume it as a food source.
What does the plant do with the sugar it makes?
Plants use the sun’s energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into glucose, a sugar used for energy and building cell walls. Starch is stored in seeds and other plant parts as a food source, and some foods like rice and grains are packed with starch. During photosynthesis, plants trap light energy with their leaves, converting glucose into glucose and other substances like cellulose and starch. Most plants contain a special colored chemical or pigment called chlorophyll, which absorbs the sun’s energy and turns it into chemical energy.
Chlorophyll usually absorbs red and blue light from the sun and reflects green light, making some leaves green. In the fall, some plants stop producing chlorophyll, causing leaves to change color. With the absence of chlorophyll, the green light is no longer reflected, resulting in the absence of essential nutrients in plants.
How does Coca Cola affect plant growth?
Carbonated water, such as club soda, can promote plant growth by containing essential macronutrients like carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorous, potassium sulfur, and sodium. However, pouring soda on plants like Classic Coca Cola is not recommended due to its high sugar content. Other varieties of Coke, like Coke Zero, Coca Cola C2, and Coke Black, have minimal sugar content but do not offer any added benefits or are more expensive.
Sprite, which has nearly the same sugar content as Coca Cola, is not suitable as a soda pop fertilizer but can extend the life of cut plants and flowers. 7-Up can also be used to increase the life of cut flowers in vases.
What is the role of glucose in plant growth?
Glucose, a product of photosynthesis, is utilized by organisms for respiration, as a substrate for other cellular activities, and for the synthesis of starch and cellulose. Additionally, it is employed in the production of oils and fats for seed storage and amino acids for protein synthesis. The released chemical energy is utilized for a variety of cellular functions.
How does sugar affect plant growth?
Sugars play a crucial role in plant growth, triggering the transition between juvenile and adult phases, and are needed at all stages of plant development. They also determine the ratio of below ground and above ground growth, and are responsible for developing plant structures such as plant cellulose and tubers. Leaves in plants function as factories, creating vital components for survival. Sugars also regulate time cycles, as plants are subject to circadian rhythms that dictate when to wake up and go to bed.
When needed, simpler sugars (glucose) are converted to more complex sugars (starches) to form tissue or cell walls. These sugars are essential for plants to function properly and maintain their health.
What is the role of reducing sugar in plants?
The study investigates the reducing sugar, total phenolic content, and in vitro antioxidant activity of 70 ethanolic extracts of seven medicinal plants grown in Nepal. The reducing sugar content and total phenolic content were determined using 3, 5-dinitrosalicylic acid (DNSA) and the Folin–Ciocalteu method, respectively. The in vitro antioxidant activity was evaluated using the 2, 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay.
The reducing sugar and total phenolic content were found highest in Ficus glaberrima, while antioxidant activity was highest in Melastoma malabathricum and F. glaberrima. A positive and significant correlation was found between total phenolic content and reducing sugar content and total phenolic content and antioxidant activity.
The imbalance between free radical production and available antioxidants in the body leads to oxidative stress, which plays a vital role in the pathogenesis and development of chronic and degenerative diseases such as cancer, arthritis, diabetes, aging, and cardiovascular diseases. Synthetic antioxidants like butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), propyl gallate, and tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) have been widely used in the food and pharmaceutical industries to preserve food and drug products from oxidative deterioration and as dietary supplements to neutralize the effect of oxidative stress inside the human body.
However, these synthetic antioxidants have been reported to induce carcinomas of forestomach in rats and hamsters, cytotoxicity, and apoptosis in human cells, and possesses adverse effects on the liver, kidney, and lung tissues.
Antioxidant substances are abundantly present in plants in the form of phenolic compounds, nitrogen compounds, vitamins, terpenoids, and other endogenous compounds. These antioxidants protect cells against oxidative damage and prevent the occurrence of chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases.
Why is sucrose important to plants?
Sucrose is a crucial transport form for photoassimilated carbon in plants, providing carbon skeletons and energy for organs that cannot perform photosynthesis. It passes through multiple membranes as a molecule, requiring passage through multiple channels. This information is sourced from ScienceDirect, a website that uses cookies and holds copyright for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies. Creative Commons licensing terms apply for open access content.
What do yeast and sugar do for plants?
The text posits that the use of one cup of water, left to stand for several hours, is an effective method for the removal of chemical and other contaminants.
How do sugars regulate plant growth?
Sugars can act as signaling molecules and global regulators of gene expression, translating nutrient status to growth and floral transition. Sugar-responsive gene regulation reflects carbohydrate abundance or depletion. This is similar to hormones, translating nutrient status to regulation of growth and floral transition. Copyright © 2024 Elsevier B. V., its licensors, and contributors. All rights reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.
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This is exactly why all enemies of fruit can go to hell. Fruits have sugar yes, but the other nutrients that come with it cause you to stop when you have had enough. Sweets, chocolate and all the other shit, have tons of sugar and very poor nutrients. So you eat a lot more of them, before your body tells you to stop.
I think the problem is the RDA of fat is set too high, thus the advice for sugar applies for people who are partially insulin resistant. You’ll be way more insulin sensitive if you aren’t eating 90+ grams of fat a day but ideally under 20. The glycogen stores are to buffer glucose, so a large quantity of sugar entering the blood can uptake quickly. Then the pancreas can release glucagon to retrieve sugar from the glycogen stores if the blood sugar gets too low. If the doorway to glycogen stores is blocked with intracellular lipids, the pancreas is going to release a lot more insulin because the blood sugar isn’t going down. Also in some cases, it can eventually overshoot and make the blood sugar lower than optimal. The lower your fat intake, the lower the negative effects of sugar, and it can become a positive energy boost, though it lacks the other nutrition in fruit, but if the fruit is picked too green, it can be a valuable source of energy on top of the non caloric nutrients in fruit.
Yes, he answered the question, geez. Syrup and honey acts similar to refined sugar but have antioxidants with it. Which means if you eat a lot of honey or syrup you’ll get fat. Look at Pooh Bear. Its a longer process to get sugar from fruit. Each fruit has different sugar levels. He gave a good short answer. Go find other articles that go into depth about this instead of asking more questions and griping.
Ive seen somewhere talking about the reason why fruit is better sugar source is because of FIBER. Fiber slows absorption of sugar in body and so they say it might also slow down nutrients absorption. I know youd react but see for yourself.if you drink pure fructose (the natural sugar) that is like not so good too!
For me personally I never drink juice, it is very rare that I drink juice I don’t like the way I feel after drinking straight juice because it’s pure sugar. I love fresh fruit, I would eat and recommend that everyone try this, have a tangerine or a half of orange and drink a full glass of water with it, it’s just like drinking juice only it’s fresherI don’t know what it is in my brain but it tastes the same. It’s true I don’t understand why anyone would want to drink concentrate juice anyway any more than I would want to have hash browns cooked at a restaurant when I know how to make them at home bye pomme d’anna frite. They taste like the best fries you’ve ever had in your life or best home fries. I don’t like the taste after I’ve eaten fast food. Taste like I just ate five cubes of salt and it’s coated in industrialized fat. Certainly they smell wonderful, but then I have to stop and think of how I feel afterwards and it always stops me in my tracks, I still eat fast food I just don’t eat it very much. Once in a while I have juice as a treat but that’s how it should be valued and treated, it is like a donut or something it’s a treat, it’s not something you have all the time however you should always have fresh fruit stocked in your home, apples and oranges or whatever, I like a small tangerine and I’ll drink water with it, the water is more important, and the fact is that I don’t eat tangerines and oranges infrequently I have them probably daily so I never feel deprived and I never missed juice.
This is bull. The questuon is NOT “Is a spoonful of apple treated the same eay as a spoonful of sugar”?. The question is “Does your body treat all sugars the same?” In other words does it treat actual sugar and the sugar inside a fruit etc the same way? The answer is yes. Your body treats all sugars the same whether its from an apple, honey treacle or whatever.
natural sugar is good when consumed from a fruit or natural product that contains fiber for a slow absorption of nutrients, vitamins and minerals. When sugar is consumed directly in sodas and sweets a large amount of insulin is released and this generates negative energy reserves that are converted into fats and over time this leads to diseases such as diabetes, obesity and other cardiovascular diseases.
“Drinking two glasses of fruit juice a day may increase the risk of cancer by more than 50 percent, a major study has found. The analysis of more than 100,000 adults revealed particularly strong correlations between the sugary soft drink and breast cancer. While recent public health campaigns have focused largely on the risks from fizzy drinks, the new findings, published in the BMJ, provide arguably the strongest evidence yet that fruit juices – also high in sugar – are comparably dangerous.”
Woah! You did NOT just scroll down into the comments and forget to subscribe, did ya? DID YA? 🙂 Didn’t think so. A note on the directions in this article: like with all additives you mix into your water, you should not be adding your sugars on every single watering…I recommend to add nutrients only every 2nd watering, and the same goes for adding sugars during flowering.
A few years back a grower friend of mine had a bunch of extra plants, and he gave me a few to put in my greenhouse. I was experimenting with hydroponics, aeroponics nutrient solutions. I had a bunch of organic, concentrated fruit juices and decided to see what would happen if I added these to my watering solution. The results were incredible! The buds were huge and sticky. I gave a few buds to my grower friend to see what he thought. A couple days later he begged me for more! I haven’t grown since, for a number of different reasons, but after hearing what you just said it makes perfect sense. I am getting ready to restart my aeroponic system and will be doing some controlled experiments, adding together what I know with what I have just learned from you. Thanks
You seem cool and you are correct about most of what you said but here is a free lesson,i do not use unsulfured molasses until the last 2 weeks. The only reason you do it is because the mycorrhizal network gets cut off by the plant in the last two week of harvest. The plant does this to focus more energy on the buds and seeds.The plant usually gives 30 percent of its photosynthates to this network in exchange for the (exudates)ionically bonded nutrients (like phosphorus) and the metals that need low ph to be absorbed(cations). So in the last two weeks when it is cut off you feed the soil food web the carbs (from the un sulfured molasses )so the microbes split ( that is when they produce the acids, enzymes,and volatile organic compounds) that helps all the minerals that need high ph around the root surface to be absorbed(amongst many other things). If you do it before the last two weeks your mycorrhizal network will cut off your plant (why give the plant all the exudates if you are getting he sugar for free),in essence you disrupt the symbiosis. Ironically it is easier to flush non organic because it is a salt bases fertilizer. Using osmotic pressure with ro water. When i grow organic which is the only way i grow i flush a little bit throughout the flowering cycle (every two weeks or so)and i do not at the end because i spoon feed the plants. I think of it as fattening your kid up and then starving him. Microbes breath oxygen like us and give off co2. When you water properly you exchange the co2 for fresh oxygen for the soil food web.
Thanks Lex. I live in the Pocono Mountains. We have bears! Lot’s of bears! I keep my grow indoors, which is laid out great. I have followed most of your program in the details with the grow and yields have been amazing. Huge plants, 6 feet by 5ft wide, 12 inch colas. 2 inches thick. Without any additives and completely organic. I do use a Brazilian Cockroach base for keeping insects out. And that works amazing. Haven’t seen a bug in months. Regarding bears…. when nearing harvest time, outside, I definitely would not use anything sweet. Bears will tear up a plastic bag to shreds to get a lick of sugar. So, molasses is a definite no no outside here. I am looking to add some nutrients to this grow over the winter. What do you recommend. I keep an environment of around 75% H and temps around 75-80 during veg. Then I begin to lower humidity, leaving temp at 80 for a month. Buds swell nicely and thicken up. Funny how I stopped my personal growing 25 years ago, and now at 65, have a nice set up and do a 4-month finish set up. Aging jars for a couple of months also creates a great cure. Thanks for your articles. They have certainly helped. Good job !
love the article. I use 1/2 ounce of mixed with 1 gallon of water for each 5 gallon pot before planting seeds to feed the microbes in the soil and it seem to work as well as adding it at the start of flowering. I do see higher yields with this but no change in flavor or potency. I also add UVA which helps with growth, potency and flavor. love the fact that you are very professional in your presentation and will be looking for more of your articles
I use molasses and epsom salts later on when my dry amendments are running out. Plants release their own sugars from the roots to attract certain microorganisms that contain specific nutrients they need, so I try not to mess with what they are trying to do unless necessary when they are mature but it’s only my opinion. Recently discovered in between cell wall and the inside of the cell plants have a layer where they store microbes containing specific nutrients until they need them.
While you are correct that plants cannot directly absorb carbohydrates through the roots, sucrose, ribose, and fructose as well as glucose are prone to leach out of the roots during heavy watering. By adding even a small amount of sugar to your water/ nutrient mix you can eliminate or minimize it. That in turn means that more sugars stay in the plant, and are used for whatever the plant uses them for, energy, building material, etc Additionally, ion/cation exchange does not allow for sugar absorption, but simple sugars can sometimes pass through cell walls(polysaccharide) when certain enzymes are present by opening small seams in the plasmodesmata. Not all plants have this function, and it has been discovered that some plants native to certain regions have it, while the same plant from another region will not. What this means is basically, it’s possible that some cannabis strains may be able to “envelope” certain nutrients thru the phospholipid bilayer when the wall is permeable
I use half a jar of molasses from local dollar tree 4 banana peels dried and cut in to small chunks and 5 k cup used coffee grounds put in empty 2 litter bottle with water mixed shake up daily for 3 weeks . Best bloom and flower booster you can make for cheap. Definitely makes flower stage go nuts with growth and buds will get bigger i add one cup of this mix into a spray bottle of water and spray my plants. Definitely need to try my recipe if ya looking for a cheap way to boost your buds size and flower stage growth to bloom
total newbie at 73 yrs old. trying to leaarn how to grow my own for medical reasons, mainly chronic pain. Although I do have my medical card I can’t afford to buy it even if I knew where to who to get it from. learning from your articles, you are a good teacher. I Really could use the vape you are giving away. I believe I am supposed to give your code to win it from your other article which was quite informative. #LexHiveGiveaway
Been using molasses for years and years. Now also using JADAM fert methods. Plants love it and it is free. Organic grows from seed, outdoors, are best in my experience. Not sure but the fermented, rotten smelling JADAM stuff seems to do a good job repelling pests on our three sisters crop. Same with beets, carrots, potatoes, etc.
First time grower here! Love Lex’s world articles. Many tips and strategy’s here. I am doing the molasses now in flower. In week five and man the collas are swelling up nicely. To the point where my fellow grower are shocked, that my plant looks so good! So far so good,as far as no bugs! The strain is space man, and is getting fat and frosty! Can’t wait to give it a try!
❤New Subscriber to the website ! & also a semi-novice grower, I’ve watched my father in law grow for YEARS & now I’ve finally decided to give growing a Go! And I have learned SO much useful things, and avoided many mistakes with your help! Wish me luck, I’ve got 4-5 plants left, 2 in pots & the rest are in the GROUND outdoors still. I’m hoping that the latest of the season doesn’t hurt my yield.. As these plants SHOULD have flowers by now, (if they had not been cut down, if they’d been left to grow from seeds–) I planted 8-12 this year right after the frost, around spring. Forgot about the plants 😅 and then they started popping up around my yard and most of them died from being mowed, and 1 is a male, he’s huge and I left him secluded alone, I may use him for edibles or something 1 was mainline by accidental mowing… (*So is there eyill time for buds? The mainline plants already recovering phase, and new branches are shooting from 2 Nodes. But the plants supplement super short — hopefully will continue vegistaive and ill get nutrients today, but yeah just wanted to thank you. And anyone else who has any advice for my situation, please comment
Lol glad i finished perusal before commenting!😂 I wa about to say… plays are autotrophic they make the own sugar and leach some to the soil for the beneficial microbes. They don’t actually absorb added for extra crystals lol And more but I’d be basically Reiterating what you already said, and yes most people miss understand their use… Only part i do differently is i do run them later when into flush because the plant begins to get greedy with its sheets and keeps it for its self. Causing the microbes to die off or become dormant in late flower.. so even into flushing i’ll use molasses to keep them working and breaking down and releasing foods in the soil for the plant. Helps with flushing by breaking down and still giving the plant what it needs more naturally!! But then yes final flushes h2o only
actually it has nothing to do with the sugars at all, its the micronutrients that are in the molasses. Ive been growing giant pumpkins for years and growers have been using molasses and milk based products for ever. its the trace nutrients that most soils are missing that helps plants. Seaweed extract is also a very good foliar spray along with fish extract.
Mine was planted in a 60 litre bag of high quality compost and I exposed the biggest roots and covered them in honey (this was still in veg). Now it’s in its 2nd week of flower all I have gave her is water.. she’s doing so well though with hundreds of flowers all over her 🙂 I was thinking maybe throw some bonemeal in there?
I tap a maple tree and keep a couple jugs of sap in the fridge for the season to add to my garden tee.. also throwing in a couple banana peels in seems to do the trick . I basically keep a 5gal pail 3/4 full of water with an air stone and jus keep adding a handful of worm castings & or manure with sum moldy grass/straw for fungal boost and add the sugar when it stops making foamy bubbles. Then add it to plants after a rain when ground is already wet so bacteria & microbes don’t dry up & die .
I’ve recently used organic molasses on my outdoor plants. I started the first week of flowering and added right til the end. My first plant grew 2m high x 2.3m wide. 5 branches, each branch 2m long and I yielded 3lb of bud. The buds were suoer sticky even when fully cured and dried. My 2nd plant is the same size but by looking at it, it’s has more fatter crowns on it. I’m estimating 3.5lb of buds yielded. I definetly will be using mollases in every grow I do from now on. A big plus to your plants. My soil was treated for 3 months with garden mulch compost and food scraps from the kitchen.
Mycorrhizal fungi should have a balanced diet: fats, proteins and all carbohydrates – starches as well as sugars. I like to mix dried rice through the soil as a starch source. Also, you can turn nutrient in a paste, put them on top of the soil and cover them with mulch – hemp bedding is great, can be bought in pet stores, and supports the hemp industry, it also contains no toxins because those would poison pets; or straw, anything that can decompose. You can make a paste of for instance an one part grains (hempseed, rice, corn, oats) and 3 or 4 parts organic nutrients (bonemeal, bloodmeal, guanos, alfalfa pellets, rockphosphate, lava meal, magnesium lime – whatever the plant needs), mix with some water into a thick paste that cannot be flushed into the medium. Water the soil with a low concentration of late flowering food. Apply the paste to no more than 1/3 of the top of the soil. Put a piece of soft fruit around it – banana, pineapple, orange. Completely cover it up with the mulch. Don’t water it in. By letting it sit on top of the soil, you’re giving the soil fungus a chance at consuming it, using the calories for energy and guide the nutrients to the plant. For this method to work best you should also use a water reservoir or bottom watering method like a dish or a flood floor to water your plants, in order to not disturb the soil fungus. (Plants keep the rain off the soil by growing a nearly impenetrable foliage.) Also, water should have the same temperature as the plant.
Though molasses will feed soil microbes, it’s unwise to use for that purpose as you want your soil microbes feeding on what is in the soil. When microbes interact with roots, the roots will exude sugars in exchange for elemental ions. If the soil is rich with molasses, that process will be slowed or hindered some. IMO, it’s best to use molasses in your foliar spray as molasses is teaming with micros and trace elements.
I wouldn’t use corn syrup (most corn is grown with pesticides and herbicides) or honey ( it has natural antifungal and antibacterial properties). When using molasses, I only use organic UNsulfured blackstrap molasses. When I do use molasses, I only use it in my ariated compost teas. By the time my tea has brewed (36 – 48 hours), all the sugars have been consumed by the microbes. I’ve recently heard that there’s even better choices for sugars, but I can’t recall exactly what they were at the moment 😅
Good info. I’ve been using sugars for a couple of grows. Recently I heard a lot of people have been using Aloe Vera (juice) so I have just started using it. I’d be interested in your opinion and even a article explaining why or why not. I noticed I have had no spider mites since, not even on the weaker leaves.
I have heard that it is the potassium in the molasses that is a sweet tasting ion? I have used it. Can’t tell. But I can also say it’s got all the micronutrients for the plants like calcium, magnesium, and iron is pretty important too in the chlorophyl greenery in the healthy leaves, and thus sugar production.
Small amounts of real Maple Syrup added to the daily water will make buds with heavy resin. Real Maple Syrup is a natural sap. Bud resin is also a sap. I think Maple Sap is more compatible to plant absorption with a good results in my experience. Molasses is also a sap so it should work well and cheaper then maple syrup.
Hey I’m trying a experiment with some bag seeds. I use 4 table spoons of molasses and 4 table spoons of fish/seaweed fertilizer per gallon of water. I’m now mixing used coffee grounds and my weed ash to make a super carbon fertilizer. Anyone try this? It’s 9/12/19 Will let you know how the plants grow and taste (if female)
I have been telling people this for some time, and they do absorb sugars, if you put mangoes around your plants they turn orange and taste like mango so to say they don’t absorb I would look into it a bit, I would use two table spoons of raw sugar in luke warm water in a 2Lt bottle and give one per plant in the morning or after dark when it is cool so that the luke warm water shocks the plant a bit and sucks up the sugar, the sugar cane farmers and sugar back into the water supply so there sugarcane produces more resin and if you do this every day you will have pure oil dripping from every fork in the branches, and from the paws in the leaves, just don’t make the water to hot, same as what you would give a baby, I was getting over a hundred mills a day each plant of pure red oil and pure green, but this was in direct sunlight not lights.
why use sugars or honeys? if you know how to grow good you dont need to do that. unless you are using alot of nutrients. cause everyone knows the more nutrients you use the more its gonna make the taste change. believe me in los angeles all the great growers dont even use “sugars” cause if you know how to grow right. and saying the more nutrients you use the more of the yield. that is very stupid to say honestly.
Try 1/4 cup sugar -1cup water ratio. I make my own Hummingbird juice and accidentally gave it to some seedlings one time the plants really liked it it was obvious within an hour. I thought whoops these are gonna die but no. I haven’t tried since that one feeding I didn’t know adding sugars was a normal thing. Awesome
I read that Molasses only feed certain Microbes,the microbes beneficial to flowering so shouldn’t be used during the Veg cycle.I now use honey and a touch of molasses during veg then the other way around during flowering.It seems to make a difference.My pure white roots now cover half the bottom of a 15ltr fabric pot after only 4wks.It could be due to the different strains Iv been using but I doubt it.I do rate the Biosys Tea from Ecothrive.
I fertalize with with cocktail nichrin and later when flower cocktail potassium.but I poor cocktail then said pop over it after then wait a minute then a bit of water.plants like suger as well as carbnin such as carbanted water.so instead I ues soda pop.get both at same time.been doing this since the 80s before poelpe ever figured it out.just from research from famers almanac.talking about plates need suger and cabin slash soda water.say what you will been working great for 40 years..since I was 8 me and my friend would grow 5000 plants a year .hight low different dirt pluck leaves not pluck .block sun .we call that 1 super shooting.16 ft stim 2 oz of bud when you grow as much as we did it was worth it.wow good shit there.we evean let plants grow to full bud then let winter come and then summer again in a window just to see what happen.stim grew out of top of bud then bud fell apart then next year bud grew again evean bigger.ask edd from hight times use to aregu back and forth about stuff like laly pooping.we invited that.he said photo sodofises would stun the plant we said it lets light get to the rest of plant .we sent pictures.years later he took creadet for it.its ok tho.as long as better greater bud is produced becouse of 2 8 year old to teens to alduts doing siatific exspriaments for at least 30 years.we called our self’s johny pot seeds in high times.i traveled all over country.so did he as teens.we would just Tru hand fulls if seeds all over the usa.we had evryone in our hood give us there seeds for this couse.
Yo Lex, check this out..Like you said, during flowering stages, I lower my PH with molasses, a bonus! I pour 1/4 jar into another jar and fill that with water and shake the dogshit out of it. Then just add until the desired ph level. I reckon that’ll work with chemical fertilizers too, if that’s what they into.
I have used molasses and I have used suger water also lately been using Sorghum. All work well. Suger water best as a spray on near harvest as molasses & Sorghum thru out growth & thru out budding. Not much of a difference between the two when it comes to the end results. Yet both give much better results than not being used at all. All so yes as for sweetness in the plant nah. The natural glucose made by the plants own photosynthesizing. The plant produces only what it needs to grow not a plant known for its suger content. Like suger cane or Sorghum. Any thing added to the soil as the man says is plant food more or less not a added sweetener. I like this article and how the guy explained everything good source of info. Thank You I will be sure to subscribe and hope to see more from him
idk if molasses makes the plants taste sweeter, but when I tested it through multiple grows there was a big difference in flavor, with the ones getting molasses tasting much better. At that point i was only using maybe 4-5tb per 5 gallons, and only once about a week before I start flushing. This last grow I decided to try using a lot more molasses, something like at least 1tb per gallon, once a week into flower and again every 2 weeks after. So 3 times total, the last still about a week or a little more before flush. And it doesn’t taste good at all. I blame too much molasses. It’s the only thing I’ve done different, and I’m familiar with these strains. Based off the ONE time I used it all through flower, I think it can be overdone.
What if it’s in a garden? My plants 11ft and 7ft around. Has a great stalk and started to flower/bud. Seems like it’s sucking all nutrients to my plant so I already added my sugars a few days ago 1 gallon. Can I get away with every other day just add my sugars or still too much? I haven’t grown in about 25-28 yrs so I did it like I did in the early 90s and I remember I came out pretty good.
Good advice man, ive been using it as a secret ingredient for about…..25yrs now . Lol . Ive even been so hard up it was the only thing i had and its worked better than youd think !! Now I dont usually watch YouTube articles on growing because they usually dont know what they are talking about, unfortunately. But this one was actually true AND useful .(.be carful not to go overboard because it will lead to other issues), serious ones too. Good job bud
Have you heard of acidic infusion. In the vid i watched (from high times) he took grape big chew gum cooked it in vinegar the acid made the gum turn to foam and float on top he skimmed it off then used the liquid 1 tbl spoon to a gl of water(i think he added it to every feeding after flower) it made the buds smell and taste like grape.
Can I have a clear explanation of what the flushing process actually is please? I have always heard many people talking about it being essential to flush your cro but when I ask what the flush is for I never get a definitive answer it’s always very vague and ends up with me having more questions than before
no one ever says if it’s OK to use molasses with your flowering fertilizer..in conjunction.. I use earth juice catalyst,just 1/4 teaspoon.that shit gives me brownish red spots and leaves will turn yellow and curl,then fall off. some of plants out of 5 strains look like shit.but are hella crystalized up..I just been adding milk also 2℅…I just got molasses and power milk @5 weeks..I am gonna try 1teaspoon molasses with flowering fertilizer with powder milk.i also add Epson salt every 2 weeks.
I have done a reverse supercropping where you take all the leaves but the last 3 levels at the tip. The opposite of pinching the tops. This needs to be done in the shade but the plant will ooze clear syrup like substance that make the plants sticky and stinky. Molasses right before the leaves are taken. Then some ice on the soil at the end for root purge and colors.
Hello sir, My name is Pablo Diaz, I live in Colombia, south America and I am a new grower. I have been granted a license to grow both cbd and thc in my farm (as well as a seedbank permit), but for now I have bought a vivosun 3×3 tent and a Phlizon 1500w cob to get some practice at home (I am very new at this lol). I have a lot of Colombian seeds from many landrace/etc varieties but since things were illegal here (for obvious reasons lol) there’s no way to know which is which. It would be amazing if you could please give me some pointers/tutorial/classes/etc on growing so that my gf and I can start growing correctly and happily! Especially since we will be growing 12 hectares of cbd and 1 of thc! I have coffee, dried organic basil (our farm is organic certified), Colombian landrace seeds and dried mangosteen powder (antioxidant powder @74 xanthones) <- we process it ourselves! Here's a link to what it does. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21902651/ I would be more than happy to give you whichever you prefer in exchange for knowledge on everything cannabis, from germinating to curing/extracting/etc ect. Thank you for your time and attention. Your friends in the south, Pablo & Martha
Molasses can be fed at any stage of the plants life cycle (and should be) as it will feed not the plant, but it WILL feed and ATTRACT all the different micro organisms etc. that produce the waste for the plant to feed on.This symbiotic relationship promotes rapid root spread to further the plants own ability to widen its search for, and receive, more food on demand (courtesy of the body waste of the Micro-organisms) it is the increase in micro organisms that that leads to those larger buds because of the increase in waste from the microbes, AND the plant itself then produces more of its own sugar to purposely keep the growing mass of those organisms in and on the plants own root stock….More microbes produce more waste for the plant to thrive……simple concept, and even more effective if you add some mycorrhizal fungi when transplanted up.This wonderful fungi will attach itself to the plants root system initially as it also feeds the plant through the attraction of more of the microbe population around the root system….This is how nature feeds ALL plants…..it works perfectly without human intervention……have you never wondered just how everything in the wild thrives all by itself…have a trip into any wooded area and take some ground samples with a spade……turn the ground over and you will see lots of White mycorrhizal fungi growing in every direction from the roots of all the trees,bushes, plants etc.Mother Nature was doing this long before foolish man came along and screwed plant feeding up with all his chemical salty shit (the main reason WHY most people unintentionally cause problems for their own plants.
I tried to add a batch of molasses only and it turned all me leaves yellow. I added the nutrients again and calmag to get it back to green. Now its healthy. I know when you add brown sugar that it turns the leaves green if they are yellow. I tried this last grow because i was testing to see if the buds get more sticky with brown sugar, i added it during the fade and my plant turned green again. Im not too sure what regular white sugar does?
Hey lex I have a quick question, I am considering investing in some great white microrhyzal fungi and I always hear people saying you have to use a sweetener with it. Would it harm the plants or the yield at all using molasses in my watering jug with microrhyzal mixed into it? I’m also wondering if I could do this throughout the grow and not just in flower? Thank you lex and keep on making the great educating content!
1Tb/gal is WAY too much molasses for DWC!! I tried it and within days my system was gummed up, clogged up my res chiller lines, and thickened up the water so much it restricted air flow and made pH impossible to maintain. Within a week I had severe root rot. Hopefully I can reverse this rr but I’m not sure. I will be testing different increments of molasses or using none at all but 1Tb/gal is a terrible ratio and asking for problems.
First time grower in small 2x2x4 tent. Plant growing fast but I made the mistake of taking off big fan leaves and a lot of small leaves to get better light. All of my new leaves are getting small holes on them. It’s like the plant is eating itself but getting big at the same time. Yellowing around the holes. What should I do?
Aloha Lex, I added 1 tbl spoon molasses /gal of filtered water for my 2-3 day watering 1 week into flowereing indoor soil grow. 2 days later the bottom leaves starting turing yellow and now spots! She was perfect before the molasses. I fulshed with Epsom salts, 1 tbl spoon / gal. the flushed with another gal of water. still turning yellow up the plant! I’ d appreciate your help!
attract unwanted pests … try growing weed in cow country . If you ever wondered if cows eat it I can assure you they do . To make matters worse i dumped spent cat litter over the fence . Cows love it ! It’s a mineral lick to them, and they will push each other out of they for it, and push the fence . The neighbors were nice enough to build a “pen” around my weed . I lay out mineral licks far away from the pen for their cows . I water with Grandma’s unsulfured molasses . I throw the spent cat litter over the fence away from the “greens”. We coexist ….
I don’t know how adding molasses, which I do use could make your bud sweet like you said and like I’ve always said the plant at the roots doesn’t absorb sugars if it’s not absorbing the sugar how on Earth could it ever make the bud sweet. It can change the taste of it if not flushed properly, but the same could be said of any nutrient organic or otherwise flushing is Just INCREDIBLY important to the taste of your cannabis. The better it’s flushed the better the actual taste of the cannabis itself is going to come through to the point where if you flush it correctly that’s the only taste your getting. natural cannabis taste delicious, an oh so natural wonderfully delightful cannabis taste like the gelato I grow… best terpine profile best tasting bud I’ve ever grown, I’d put that up against any other strain taste wise. The taste is what I care about the most because I smoke Bud Not concentrate not wax nothing like that Only but only the flowers give me the flowers.
Hi! Is it okay to alternate molasses water and nutrient water? Like if I gave her nutes today, 5 days after I give her molasses water, 5 days after nutes again, 5 days after molasses water and so on until flush with molasses water. I wanted to check if this doesnt lock out the nutes, but I couldn’t find any articles about it… Im 5-6 weeks away from harvest, and been giving molasses since last week during early flowering. Can you enlighten me? Thanks! 🙈
Also: Another question (whst do ya do if ya cant remember what strain the seed was??) — i gad about 8-10 seeds in a bag. And only 75% were the same kind, so at least 3 of the seeds were unknowns- I found 1 jackpot seed and they got mixed in a bag apl together so now idk whst im growing– and lots of them got cut mowed over, so they are still not bug enough to distinguishing kinds
I add sorghum to my compost during the winter to avoid ants. Those little bastards will dive in when growing outdoors and applying direct when it’s warm out. I learned the hard way with tomatoes years ago. Adding some Cheyenne pepper to soak in the water solution for a day or two help deture critters and bad bugs. Just don’t let it start making alcohol lol, for this anyway haha.
@lex blazer ~Great tip: to confirm…can Sucanat (a raw, cane sugar juice)…also be used in place of molasses? I would presume yes, simply due to the fact that it is essentially sugar in it’s truest form. Boiled (once over) w/ minimal process; whereas, Bootstrap Turner blackstrap molasses must undergo at least a (thrice-3X boil), before said brown liquid is manufactured.~ Great content, Olde Boy. Keep dropping that science. ~Signed: Ye feckless ingrate, Captain Jack Sparrow
Hey man, do u think the sugars present in oranges and lemons also help? Specifically the orange. Because those seem to help perk my plant up and seem to make the flowers smell more pungent, specifically when I filtered and strained some fresh squeezed orange juice from one whole orange and added about 1.5 liters of water to my 5 gallon pot. The next day, my plant just seemed healthier, and the buds were stanky.