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hi, how do you apply molasses to your patch? all the ones I have ever seen are really thick.thanks!

4/29/2007 12:26:28 PM

Dummer Twp - Ontario

Dilute in warm water and mix in with foliar feeding or with water barrel and compost teas

4/29/2007 3:51:29 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Mix 1 oz per gallon of water. It might help to warm it first. Spray it on everything a couple times a week to keep bacteria levels up. This is supposed to also raise the brix levels of the targeted plants which may increase disease & insect resistance.

4/29/2007 4:31:42 PM

President - GPC

4 OZ, in warm water spray 2 weeks into soil 1/2 inch deep to feed the microbes...Whole patch

5/1/2007 8:59:17 AM

Ontario

Don't spray on foiliar use ground application only. Anyone familiar with agro k knows that molasses creates a film on the leaves and clogs the pores of the leaf making it unable to breathe.

Drew

5/1/2007 2:28:33 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

I wouldn't spray the plants with 4 oz.

5/2/2007 12:28:17 AM

President - GPC

I agree, I only go with molasses in the soil, 4 weeks and 2 weeks prior to planting, whole patch, feed them microbes......then once a week around the stump at 1oz per gal, that may change this year with the aerobic compost tea taking its place.

5/2/2007 10:09:08 AM

Mill Creek West by god Virginia

i spray molasses mixed with fish 2 teaspoons full to two gallons of water for each plant, every other day spray foliar style and since ive started this my plants have never been healthier and they keep a awsome green color just my experience burrhead

5/2/2007 5:21:00 PM

Woodinville, WA, PNW zn 7b

You can take it one step further by using your expensive molasses to make compost tea. A few oz of molasses in a five gallon bucket, a handul of well-rotted compost as a starter in a mesh bag. A source for areation. And 24 hours later you have 5 gals of trillions of beneficial microbes with which to innoculate your soil. You can use this as a folar or soil surface treatment.

11/12/2007 8:01:34 PM