Molasses: When do you use it? How much of it? And how do you prepare it? - Page 2

**mdvpc** · January 26, 2012

Thanks folks for telling me how you dissolve!

dice · January 27, 2012

Hot water is the secret. I mix a tablespoon in a quart jar, then pour that
into a gallon container, then fill the gallon up with cold water, which lowers
the temperature enough to be usable immediately without undissolving
the molasses. (I leave a little room in the gallon if I want to add something
with biological organisms to it, so I do not scald them to death up front.)

tuk50 · January 27, 2012

This doesn't directly answer your questions, but is posted as other uses of molasses. I make a strong tea of:
1 cup molasses
1 cup liquid kelp
1 cup cold processed fish
1 bottle non alcoholic beer (no alcohol)
into 5gal bucket and stirred a few times for 24hrs
I then use this to activate my biochar, made in our smoker while cooking. I save the charcoal crushed into a large tub about 10 or 12 gal size. Just pour over the charcoal and leave for a couple of days. The remainder of the tea is then used to drench my 2000sq ft garden in spring when night low temps reach upper 40's. then a week later I plant tomatoes, eggplants and pepper sets.
My grandpa used beer and molasses back in the 50's when I was a kid and have always used this in spring, and am convinced it works well. I've added the biochar, kelp and fish in recent years and the years I don't use this its noticeable.

I mix a tbls or 2 of the activated charcoal in the bottom of each plant put out in the spring, and start my new compost pile for that year with the remainder of the charcoal to be used that fall after first hard freeze.

January 26, 2012	#16
mdvpc Tomatoville® Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 4,386	Thanks folks for telling me how you dissolve! __________________ Michael

January 27, 2012	#17
dice Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: PNW Posts: 4,743	Hot water is the secret. I mix a tablespoon in a quart jar, then pour that into a gallon container, then fill the gallon up with cold water, which lowers the temperature enough to be usable immediately without undissolving the molasses. (I leave a little room in the gallon if I want to add something with biological organisms to it, so I do not scald them to death up front.) __________________ -- alias

January 27, 2012	#18
tuk50 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tucson, Arizona (catalina) Posts: 413	This doesn't directly answer your questions, but is posted as other uses of molasses. I make a strong tea of: 1 cup molasses 1 cup liquid kelp 1 cup cold processed fish 1 bottle non alcoholic beer (no alcohol) into 5gal bucket and stirred a few times for 24hrs I then use this to activate my biochar, made in our smoker while cooking. I save the charcoal crushed into a large tub about 10 or 12 gal size. Just pour over the charcoal and leave for a couple of days. The remainder of the tea is then used to drench my 2000sq ft garden in spring when night low temps reach upper 40's. then a week later I plant tomatoes, eggplants and pepper sets. My grandpa used beer and molasses back in the 50's when I was a kid and have always used this in spring, and am convinced it works well. I've added the biochar, kelp and fish in recent years and the years I don't use this its noticeable. I mix a tbls or 2 of the activated charcoal in the bottom of each plant put out in the spring, and start my new compost pile for that year with the remainder of the charcoal to be used that fall after first hard freeze. __________________ Hangin on for dear life!