I Use Honey Because it Tastes Better than Molasses

[melodious fellow]

So yea, I have no molasses and the grocery store is out...

But I have H 0 n $ Y! :thumbsup:

And I like the taste waaaaay better than nasty, bitter molasses.

Come on, it has "ass" right in the middle of the damn title.

Did you honestly think it would be yummy? :wtf:

And do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

And I shore do not want any buds that taste or smoke like ass.

So why feed ass to my plants? :wtf:

So yea, anyone want to come to the rescue of my poor plants and tell me I am a fool?

Or is this super-nifty copesetic? :rastasmoke:

melodious fellow Reviewed by melodious fellow on 12-30-2007. I Use Honey Because it Tastes Better than Molasses So yea, I have no molasses and the grocery store is out... :( But I have H 0 n $ Y! :thumbsup: And I like the taste waaaaay better than nasty, bitter molasses. Come on, it has "ass" right in the middle of the damn title. Did you honestly think it would be yummy? :wtf: Rating: 5

[Jerry Garcia 2007]

Never heard of honey as a part of a nute program. Have read about using it as a rooting hormone for cloans.
As for adding it to my nute program, I'll let you try it and see what happens and follow this thread to make my determination.

[the image reaper]

honey tends to 'ball-up' and congeal when cool, while blackstrap molasses stays dissolved, even in cold water .. at least, that's been my experience with it ... and, your preferences as to how it tastes to YOU, has no relevance to the plant ... plants lap up manure, too :jointsmile:

[SantaClawz]

where do you think the phrase, "this is the shit" came from?

[melodious fellow]

Well, I gave my plants their first dosage of fertilizers two days ago. They seedlings sprouted on the 16th, but were not growing much.

I know I ferted too early, but it worked. I used the recommended dosage for indoor potted plants (which is much lower than for outdoor) of miracle grow fertilizer with a picture of a tomato plant on the front, and very high in N.

Anyway, I also mixed in 1 cap full of H2o2 (hy. peroxide) and 6-7 drops of honey into half a gallon of water with the miracle grow and watered my plants with it.

By that evening I could see obvious growth after a week of stagnation.

Then today, I flushed one pot with 2 defected looking seedlings, and then transplanted a vigorous seedling from an overcrowded pot in to the recently flushed pot. Then I added another half gallon of the fertilizer cocktail, see above recipe.

Too many variables to evaluate the effectiveness of the honey, but we shall see what happens.

[melodious fellow]

dammit, I meant to post that in my grow log and then put a link to my log in this thread for those who want to see what honey does. Sorry.

[Weedhound]

honey tends to 'ball-up' and congeal when cool, while blackstrap molasses stays dissolved, even in cold water .. at least, that's been my experience with it ... and, your preferences as to how it tastes to YOU, has no relevance to the plant ... plants lap up manure, too :jointsmile:

lol, good one reaper. :thumbsup:

[melodious fellow]

After lots of research and detailed nutrient profiles, it turns out that molasses beats honey with its ass really badly. If honey had an ass in it, it would be getting kicked by molasses.

Interestingly enough, regular molasses is entirely different than "Blackstrap" and is also quite inferior, although still better than honey.

In the vitamins category, honey and molasses are not very different. Honey contains Vitamin C and molasses does not, and honey has folate but molasses does not.

In the minerals category, molasses blows honey out of the hive. Molasses is like eating a chunk of stalagmite.

However, "Blackstrap" is definitely the way to go over regular molasses or honey. It does not contain any sugars though, so your plants are not getting any real carbo boosters...

[Weedhound]

wow.....I've heard that too but am not sure why. Can you elaborate on this knowledge?

[Jerry Garcia 2007]

Thats what I use, Brar rabbit backstrap mollases just before going to flower and during as stinky puts it one good glop 1 1/2 Tbls. per gallon. ( excuse the spelling don't have the bottle in front of me)
Note: Did have bad experiance when adding mollasses to early veging plants. Made my ph jump and had to flush out, doing fine now on just water, FF big grow, and Hydrogen peroxide.