Thank you . Been gardening for four years now , nothing like growing yourself potatoes , tomatoes and strawberries . The FLAVOR is so much better than store bought stuff .

Also, I like that you use good scientic/biology logic with your advice!

I watched a video on the KZread channel Noreen's Garden about using molasses as fertilizer, and I wanted a second opinion. So, I watched your video, and you confirmed what she originally said. Thanks to both of you. I am going to try this out.

Yea, I use that for my fruit trees Molasses and fish meal mixed in a gallon of water or sometimes I dig in a fish head into the soil or two eggs or potatoes for my 🌲 any of this work great 😃thanks you .

Thank you! I make Kefir water so I already now how very IMPORTANT Molasses was to microorganisms. Molasses is packed with nutrients, minerals and trace minerals that my pro-biotic kefir grains LOVE LOVE LOVE ! I built a raised bed this fall to over winter for my first really seriously focused organic garden in the spring!, it has rock dust, green sand, and many other organic additives to really enrich the soil for those nutrient dense and healthy veggies! I've also started daily (as long as the ground is not frozen hard) throwing my extra kefir grains into my raised bed dirt now, stirring them in repopulating the soil with all of their billions of microbes. I was wondering, does it make since to throw extra whole sugar into the bed? Not sure if the idea of Molasses right now in the cold is the best idea, but I have plenty organic whole sugar crystals I can toss and stir (my bed is about 8x8ft). The dry sugar, I know the dry sugar (when they get wet/rain) will feed the kefir grains bacteria that I have in there, although it is winter time, so I would think alot of the kefir grain bacteria/yeast would go dormant, but the sugar would give them food if they woke up, and then save the liquid Molasses once spring started? What do you think?

@Smilinggardener

10 жыл бұрын

Sure, dry sugar can be helpful in the garden, too. I wouldn't spend too much time doing it over winter, but definitely during the growing season.

Great video. I also heard of epson salt i tryed it and i liked it i'm going to try the molasses to see how it works. Keep up the great work.

great inf thanks for sharing I am going to use in my Garden

Earth juice molassas is cheap and it's unsulfured I pay about $40 U.S. for a 5 gallon jug of it I use it with my teas and as a nice kicker when mixing up my soils It's real good stuff

B1 in particular and indeed Sulphur in the natural one are so beneficial in molasses ;)

Trying to go organic with my gardening business. Any ideas for organic weed control for weeds in lawns?

How do you mix for Hope-End Sprayer use and also what are the settings on your sprayer?

for homemade seaweed fertilizer, can i just boil blend the seaweed in water then boil it on the stove instead of letting it sit outside for a long time?

I usually use maple syrup you think that's bad because of the preservatives in it will that kill the microbes as well?

nice for the vid.can i use this in a hydroponic set up.thanx

definitely the molasses.I live in NYC,about 1 mile from former WTC and never even saw a blackfly in my apartment.Ever. Then as soon as I used the molasses i started seeing them. actually within 2 days. The Gnats are a different plague altogether because I haven't been able to completetly rid my apt. of them, although I don't see them in great numbers. The plants really suffered and i had to get rid of them too.

Can we use this in our potted plants? Not the ground

For all that are nay-sayers of the 'molasses', the reason why molasses is great is not very much the sugar content, although partly but also minimally, its the nutrients that are tied to the molasses that make it a magic addition to the application. Molasses has trace minerals that no other common spray has, and it is not expensive, it is easy to apply. When I add molasses to my Kefir grains, it has nothing to do with the sugar, as I add whole sugar separately, but it is for the HEALTH of the bacteria. When I 'forget' to add molasses, I have difficulty with the Kefir grains becoming unbalanced, they stop reproducing at high rates, they start to give poor quality kefir water , the Molasses is the magic vitamin pill for microorganisms!

@Smilinggardener

10 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, molasses does have some nice nutrients, but the sugar in it is definitely important too - microbes need their carbs :)

@AlejandroRasmussen7

6 жыл бұрын

How do you do the mix for fertigation??

I live in central Florida. We have bear, wild boar and deer. Will spraying this on my lawn attract them?

could i use honey instead? i have so much honey at home so just wondering.

We have clay soil , could i get a jar of dirt and take it to garden center for testing ?

How much molasses should i put in a 100 gallons tank to fertilize grass? can i mix that with kelp and seaweed to obtain a better fertilizer

I don't know about using molasses in every situation. I used a very diluted amount in my indoor garden and wound up throwing my plants out due to their getting infested with blackflies and fungus gnats. It took a month to rid the blackflies but the gnats never completely died off. I still have gnats showing up but under control. Never had them prior to using molasses.

Can we use molasses on vegetables like eggplants and tomatoes?

i would like to use this method to help out my plants outside because i know every plants food source is mainly the sugars it produces for itself. But, one issue i have with feeding my plants sugar is that i have an ant problem in my garden and the sugar really encourages the ants to eat and destroy my plants. :( so unfortunately, it does more bad than good. Is there anything else i can do?

How would putting sugar on your plants and soil affect potential ant / aphid problems? Might sugar ants be attracted, and then stick around to farm aphids?

Do I have to cook this up or just mix it well?

good day... is it ok if you make more molasses in the concoction ?

I wonder what using sugar, honey, molasses, or whatever would do for sick trees? I wonder, also, what impact, if any, it would have on the insects, their eggs, worms, etc., that have infested so many trees, such as ash trees? I wonder if varying amounts of sweetness would have different outcomes. I wonder if using an amount that might almost kill the tree, but not quite, might kill the insects at different stages, especially honey or mollasses?

I put wood ashes in my garden , I've heard thats the only way to replace minerals . I'll try the molasses .

Great infor

molasses also contains potassium if you get "organic"not because its actually organic but it is less processed and contains more potassium

Are Skittles good to use?

Gotta admit I'm skeptical. I have raised beds with healthy soil (home compost) and I've had the soil tested. Soil tests show no deficiencies and appears well-balanced. Are you saying that my plants would benefit from the use of molasses?

@sandpaper631

7 жыл бұрын

No the beneficial microbes and bacteria and Nemotodes eat the sugar and multiply. And they protect plants from disease and help with growth.

@miaojara9339

6 жыл бұрын

hi, what about ants? wont the molasses attract them?

hi phil I enjoy your vids. I have an observation concerning molasses. Sugar cane does not provide much if any molasses, when I worked as an electrician for a sugar company, I was told our company sold molasses to c and h sugar from Hawaii and all cane sugar. so most if not all molasses comes from sugar beets. now the problem is sugar beets are one of the most heavily gmo plant ever. so here we go, perhaps pure cane sugar would give the needed carbs?

@magicnier211

4 жыл бұрын

The iron , magnesium and other minerals in GMO beet would remain identical to its non GMOversion .. so will the sugar and other carbohydrates .. so perhaps GMO beet is not an issue

no , right too , so also for grapes. "Molasses is a viscous by-product of the refining of sugarcane, grapes, or sugar beets into sugar"

Puerto rico can produce tons of this

true, north, strong, and free, CANADA FUCK YEAH!!!!!!

what do u do about ants?

What about plain old sugar?

Sugar is a simple carbon. Most bacteria can only break down one carbon at a time. Fungi have the ability to break down chains of carbons. Bacteria tire at the amount of energy they have to expend to break down chains of carbons. They move on to simple carbons. If you want to have bacterially dominated tea, feeding it fish emulsion is a waste. Likewise if you want a fungally dominated tea, feeding it molasses will cause the bacteria to grow because they move faster than fungi.

Well isn't sugar cane the same thing?

What about brown sugar?

how about using dry molasses? thnx for sharing

@Smilinggardener

10 жыл бұрын

I've learned that applying molasses to the soil may encourage candida in the soil - not sure just how big of an issue it is, but I tend to use molasses mainly for foliar applications, which is where the liquid form works best.

Molasses feeds bacteria, fish or kelp fertilizer feeds fungi. Fungi breaks down complex carbon not bacteria. Please make sure that the molasses is unsulfured or it is useless. If you want the microbes to "stick" to your foliage when using a compost tea, it must be aerated for 24 hrs. If the microbes are actively growing, they produce a glue that will help them "stick" to foliage. Your gardens look nice.

hello phil i am willem from holland and i want to know what unsulphurud molasses is i have try to loke up the word unsulphurud on an trenslate site but i cand find enything greetings willem

@Canadianbob

7 жыл бұрын

Sulfer free, without sulphur as an ingredient,pure Molasses that can not contain sulfer. I hope this helps willem

I don't use molasses at all and I have a lot of fungus gnats, so maybe it isn't the molasses causing Eddie's problem.

what about a really old jar of molasses, i had one that still smell really good and tasty, tho its been 4-5 years old... it was worth fucking 2.50$ for a good jar, now its sold over 5$,...

@Smilinggardener

6 жыл бұрын

Worth trying :)

Although we love molasses in our cookies! It's definitely a plus to use as a fertilizer.

Some things are better left unsaid...

Hi I have 2 questions about this video. 1. Wont the microbes prefer carbohydrates at its purest form which is glucose? (The plants produces glucose already.) 2. Will using molasses increase the aphid population? How- 1 molasses attract ants on plants 2 aphids colonize the plants 3 ladybugs try to eat dirty little aphids to save the plant 4 ants in turn prey on ladybugs 5 aphids infest plants without fear of ladybugs The circle of life.lol.

@djchinatown

9 жыл бұрын

molasses increases the microbes in the soil. It's basically like a carbohydrate for the plant as well. It's an indirect fertilizer, however most molasses does contain potassium.

molasses works

sorry Phil but I can't open your link.

@Smilinggardener

9 жыл бұрын

Really? It works for me: www.smilinggardener.com/organic-fertilizers/molasses-as-fertilizer

All good info, I to use Blackstrap. I use it to feed nematodes and all the rest of the microbs. MMMMmmm sugar.

if anything use 100% maple sryup

good information. i feel kinda drunk because of your video though ;) maybe a tripod unless you're using a camera phone i guess. cheers

where's your igloo?

@dylanlewis9349

9 жыл бұрын

only Inuits have igloos, hardly any Canadians build or own igloos, as a Canadian, i know this shit, i live in a bungalow, not an igloo, note, i'm not trying to sound like a prick, sorry if i sound like one

@djchinatown

9 жыл бұрын

dylan Lewis Dude, I live in Vancouver BC... It's a stupid remark. I do use molasses, as well as brewed compost tea, but when I'm lazy, I just add molasses since it will help out with the microbes in the soil. My garden kinda sucked this year. facebook.com/604778Gardening Oh yeah I need help identifying a melon or squash. I have no idea what grew out of my compost.

@dylanlewis9349

9 жыл бұрын

djchinatown it's a stupid remark, even if we got three feet of snow in our front yard

Honey canna bus

WRONG ..SUGAR CANE

Organic, ppssh .Super phosphate, Potassium Sulfate and Ammonium Nitrate all a garden needs.

Phil, I like to get high and watch u :)....did u watch a lot of Bob Ross as a Kid? For the bennies would u like a high Brix/ high test molasses or a BlackStrap

No, it comes from sugar beets......

The word "organic" needs to be dropped. Let the OTHER way of growing things take on the burden of an adjective! >:|