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Farmerville, Louisiana

How much mollasses do I need to add now to a 2500 sq. ft. patch!

2/21/2008 7:23:33 PM

Sheridan . NY

mix 8 oz to the gallon of water -- it turn the dirt from light dark --using water can --5 gallon bucket with holes in the bottom or sprayer with LARGEST Nozzle you can get or hose end sprayer --- just as long its run 8oz's to the gallon--

2/22/2008 8:53:23 AM

Seattle, WA

You want unsulfured blackstrap molasses.

2/28/2008 2:30:29 PM

Ontario

Does black strap molasses from feed mills have sulfur?
The Mill couldn't answer my question.

3/1/2008 7:45:26 AM

Sheridan . NY

not to be a wise guy--but you need to check all ammendments you are thinking to buy -from molsses to compost to alfalfa pellets---you mill is pulling your leg-- they need to beable to give ingredients or makeup of any thing they sell --unless Canadian laws are diffent than the USA---

3/1/2008 8:08:07 AM

Seattle, WA

You'd have to check with their supplier. The sulfur is a preservative that kills microbes, exactly the opposite of what you want for your plants, hence the unsulfured requirement. Some grocery stores have it available too.

3/1/2008 6:13:42 PM

South Bloomfield, Ohio

I did a web search under "feed grade molasses" and located a site called "The Mountain Laurel". It gives a very simple definition of molasses types.

1. Unsulphured molasses is the finest quality. It is made from the juice of sun-ripened cane and the juice is clarified and concentrated.
2. Sulphured molasses is made from green sugar cane that has not matured long enough and treated with sulphur fumes during the sugar extracting process. Molasses from the first boiling is the finest grade because only a small amount of sugar has been removed. The second boil molasses takes on a darker color, is less sweet, and has a more pronounced flavor.
3. Blackstrap molasses is from the third boil and only has a commercial value in the manufacture of cattle feed and other industrial uses.

So there is really know way to tell if the molasses contains sulpher without knowing what kind of cane it came from or having it analyzed. The question from here is: is the amount of sulpher in molasses significant enough to worry about?

3/1/2008 7:43:29 PM