Been thinking of trying something out.... I know people use Molasses in a similar way, but i was thinking about using Brown Sugar (totally organic of course, no bleached stuff etc) as an additive to the soil to see if it will help sweeten the weed up.

What do people think? I might just try it as a test on 1 plant and see how it goes.....

Don't bother t will just mess your plants up, in compost your plants should be sweet enough as is, you got a sweet tooth?

Ok, in what way do you think it will mess them up?

, havent got a sweet tooth, but love the sweeter side of weed, like bubblegum and blueberry those sort of strains

It will knock your ph out for a start making nutrient uptake difficult for the plants, even with mollasses you can easily over do it. The exact science of why you shouldn't I can't tell you, am sure someone else will put you straight soon enough

E2A: if you feed biobizz nutes, the grow is mollasses based, I see no real need for adding more TBH.

Adding molasses or other sugars to soil has absolutely nothing at all to do with 'sweetening up' the plant. It is done to feed the microherd.

You really need to do some more reading and understand what you're doing before you go chucking random stuff at your plants.

Easy fella, i've been growing for years mate.

How do you think people found out that for instance, bat guano is really good for plants? Just trial and error isn't it?

To be totally honest with you mate, a plant will take characteristics from whatever medium it is grown in, thats just how plants work. So Molasses will as you say, enhance the environment for the micro organisms, but the plant will also pick up on some of that too, which will leave a residue/deposit within the plant that will effect its taste/flavor/colour whatever, depending on what your growing.

Brown Sugar is very slightly Alkaline, so i can adjust the PH accordingly.... also for your reference, check this out..... doesn't seem like a bad feed to me.... Taken from nutrition website:- ''One more noteworthy difference: a cup of brown sugar has slightly more calories than white, but it "also contains 187 milligrams of calcium, 56 of phosphorous, 4.8 of iron, 757 of potassium and 97 of sodium''

I've had friends use things like cinnamon before to heighten the flavor of the weed, but wanted to try another route

BTW thanks Goldie_2007, i'm using Ionic nutes at the min....

Sorry didn't mean to come across as a I just didn't want someone buggering their plants up

If you say that feeding your plants brown sugar will make them 'sweet' though.... well I disagree.

sugar will put the ec of your feed way up, whilst adding very little, blackstrap mollases does the same thing except it has a lot of other useful compounds which feed the microherd, it's not only the sugar that feeds the microherd, it's the phosphorous and all the other multitude of things contained in mollasses. sugar does increase bacterial growth RAPIDLY though, and too much bacterial growth deprives the soil of oxygen which is detrimental to the plants for obvious reasons. so add sugar if you like, but you'll likely burn the roots if not very careful, and you'll be adding very little in terms of benefits....

as for:

a plant will take characteristics from whatever medium it is grown in

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but the plant will also pick up on some of that too, which will leave a residue/deposit within the plant that will effect its taste/flavor/colour whatever


a plant simply takes on the nutrients available too it, a plant can't take on sugar though, it simply cannot be absorbed through the roots, except i believe monosaccharides, like fructose and glucose. found in fruit and honey.. by adding sugars/mollasses/other additives, you're simply making more of some, or less of other nutrients available, the plants aren't necessarily taking on the additives themselves. e.g. a plant will take on the pottasium from mollasses but not the sucrose

from this statement:

a cup of brown sugar has slightly more calories than white, but it "also contains 187 milligrams of calcium, 56 of phosphorous, 4.8 of iron, 757 of potassium and 97 of sodium

it sounds like you're talking about 'mollasses sugar' not all brown sugar is made equal, brown sugar like demerara has very little of the extra nutrients that mollasses sugar has for example. mollasses sugar still has way more sucrose in it than you want to be adding though, and so you'll be burning your roots if you add enough to get the benefit of the other compounds, so imo, i'd skip the sugar and get yourself some blackstrap mollasses (black treacle) or if you're using biobizz, forget it altogether, as biobizz (grow mostly) is chock full of the stuff

BB Grow is molasses bases. However stil like using Mollasses in my regime - as-well as the microherd benefits it's got useful amount of K - combined with BB Bloom gives a nice amount of PK for the plants during flower, without too much N from the Grow. I definately see a boost in bud growth after a dose of mollasses. I use a teaspoon per 6 ltrs of water about once a week during flower.

Brown Sugar.......I wouldn't go there.

i use plain suger. can't tell a differece.

IMO i still over countless years cannot understand why anyone on gods earth would want to through sugar in with there plants. i can come to terms with the mollasses business as its used to feed other things that are needed by the plant and its not for the plant directly. Try rolling a joint with suger sprinkled in it. You see the brown/black shit on your paper? that burnt suger taste nice? you can tell a mile off when suger has been used to spray or to grow with. But hey thats just my opinion.