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dice · January 25, 2012

The nice, thick, blackstrap molasses is about 5% potassium, plus some
trace minerals (iron, etc). So if I have something that is 4-3-4 at a
tablespoon per gallon, and I add a tablespoon of molasses to it, now
it is 4-3-9. Tomatoes demand for potassium goes up when fruit are
setting and ripening, so this is a good thing.

For the microbes, it is basically a sugar that any bacteria will feast on
and multiply their numbers immensely. It is a great thing to add to
compost.

I am still working on a gallon of this stuff that I got a couple of years
ago: http://www.agrisupply.com/Molasses-G...77/&sid=&eid=/
(It is marketed for wild game feeding stations, and it has a kind of
standard of its own: 27% Moisture Max, 43% total sugars, and 82 Brix,
minimum. As thick as any molasses that you would find at a grocer.)

January 25, 2012	#7
dice Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: PNW Posts: 4,743	The nice, thick, blackstrap molasses is about 5% potassium, plus some trace minerals (iron, etc). So if I have something that is 4-3-4 at a tablespoon per gallon, and I add a tablespoon of molasses to it, now it is 4-3-9. Tomatoes demand for potassium goes up when fruit are setting and ripening, so this is a good thing. For the microbes, it is basically a sugar that any bacteria will feast on and multiply their numbers immensely. It is a great thing to add to compost. I am still working on a gallon of this stuff that I got a couple of years ago: http://www.agrisupply.com/Molasses-G...77/&sid=&eid=/ (It is marketed for wild game feeding stations, and it has a kind of standard of its own: 27% Moisture Max, 43% total sugars, and 82 Brix, minimum. As thick as any molasses that you would find at a grocer.) __________________ -- alias