Honey

[stinkyattic]

I like Sweet too.
My sugar supplement routine is a combination of sweet, topmax, and molasses.
I think you should try Sweet.

[Links]

so what gives a better taste to buds molasses or sweet?

[PharmaCan]

I like Sweet too.
My sugar supplement routine is a combination of sweet, topmax, and molasses.
I think you should try Sweet.

Stinky - Noob here, growing some clones in Coco.

I know you've posted your recipe before, but I've been searching your posts for 45 minutes and can't find what I'm looking for, so could you please explain, again, the quantity of molasses you use per gallon of water - and any other relevant information like do you mix it with all water or give it occasionally or what?

And I've seen several references here to "Blackstrap" molasses. Are there different kinds of molasses? The molasses I have at home is "Grandma's Original - unsulphured". Do I want to get specifically "Blackstrap" molasses? Do I want sulphered or unsulphered?

I love growing in the Coco!!!

[keeko]

unsulphered molassess. I add 1-2 tablespoons per gallon.....but im not stinky

[stinkyattic]

Yes what Keeko said.
And I like to use not just the molasses (carb source) but also Sweet (carb synth) so that the sugar can be utilized by the plant more efficiently.

[PharmaCan]

Keeko & Stinky - Thank you!!!

Do you use the molasses in every watering or just add it occasionally.

[stinkyattic]

Ummmm pretty much whenever I am paying attention. Molasses is not one of those things that you have to be precise about!!!
Hence my love affair with it.
It is tough to OD
It is impossible to skimp.\
meh molasses
lemme get back to my ethanol issue
leameaaalone

[rhizome]

Naw we have plenty of beekeepers (farm community)... there just seems to be a lack of BEES... climate change... I'm not so informed but Rhizome is all over it.

If by " all over it" you mean "freaked the F$%^ out", then yes, yes I am.

Bee populations across North America and Europe have been dying off. The current speculation is that their autolocation mechanism is somehow being comprimised- ie, workers go out to forage, but do not return. The hive dies.

This is a REAL PROBLEM, given the diversity of crops and other plants whose reproduction is based on bee pollination.

Started in random pockets in the US about 18 months ago, then turned up in Europe within the last year. Nobody seems to know what's going on. Lot of speculation that it's somehow related to the introduction of large-scale GMO organisms, but no proof and no plausible theory of action- GMO corn isn't bee pollinated, nor is regular corn.

Oddly, french researchers stumbled across the fact that, if a cellphone is left next to a hive, bees will not return. Don't know how many times this experiment has been iterated. Cells are active in the electromagnetic spectra, which bees are known to use for autolocation- but cells have been in very common use in Europe for decades, and suddenly there's a problem. Problem also first occured in relatively rural areas of the US, where cell use is much less common. So I don't see direct causuality.

Let's also remember that the populations being affected, at least in US/WE, are just beginning to solidly recover from the varroa mite, which decimated feral populations earlier in the decade.

Some reports are saying that population on the North American continent may be down by as much as 70 % from #'s late last century.


Given the central role of bees in the ecosystem, yeah, I'm pretty freaked. Enjoy the honey while you can, cause it'll be pricey very very soon.

[Bree1978]

sad, sad. Hopefully they can get to the root of the problem so it can be attended to ASAP.

Bree