The Thomas Dykstra youtubes will explain it really well, but in a nutshell, bugs can only process very low amounts of sugars.
Too much ferments to alcohol in them and kills them.

There are tiers from aphids up to grasshoppers, and each tier has bugs that can handle those levels.

Above 12 brix and it pretty much gets bug proof, but grasshoppers will still take a nibble to about 14.Bugs know this so they don't even bother once brix are above their tier.

The high brix also boosts plants immunities, so they can ward off disease better too. Say good bye to bugs and molds.

Sugar is also the prime ingredient in ATP, which is sugars and P mostly, and it's the energy cells run on, so high brix plants also have more energy, and it all gets shared with the soil biota, so as the plant gets healthier, so do the microbes/fungii, and it snowballs.
ahhhh....enter the molasses.
I will check out some vids tomorrow. Thank you! Now get outta here. Lol
 
ahhhh....enter the molasses.
I will check out some vids tomorrow. Thank you! Now get outta here. Lol
I just bathed The Idiot, Chunky Von Poopenheimer. She knows when her backpack gets loaded it's road-trip time.

Me: Chunky, wanna go for a trip?

Chunky: Huh?!!
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Me: Are you bringing your toys?

Chunky: I bring Tug-Tug!
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Me: Is that all?

Chunky: I get Snakey too!
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Can't forget Snakey, she's had Snakey her whole life.

She ran downstairs to get it and bring it to me.🥰🤣

Now she has to wait til the morning🤣

Dad's a Dikk😈
 
I just bathed The Idiot, Chunky Von Poopenheimer. She knows when her backpack gets loaded it's road-trip time.

Me: Chunky, wanna go for a trip?

Chunky: Huh?!!
20250109_150718.jpg

Me: Are you bringing your toys?

Chunky: I bring Tug-Tug!
20250105_164854.jpg

Me: Is that all?

Chunky: I get Snakey too!
20250109_150726.jpg


Can't forget Snakey, she's had Snakey her whole life.

She ran downstairs to get it and bring it to me.🥰🤣

Now she has to wait til the morning🤣

Dad's a Dikk😈
Never have I connected scary with adorable at the same time. :rofl: What a cutie, even with the glow eyes!
 
Never have I connected scary with adorable at the same time. :rofl: What a cutie, even with the glow eyes!
She's a hundred plus pounds of full love lapdog..... until she's not.

When the adrenaline runs she's pure fury and spit flying hackled demon, and Momma is her golden egg. You don't want a piece of that, but otherwise, she's a love machine. She loves laps.

Even folks who don't like dogs end up under her loving it. She's relentlessly snuggly, and warm and velvety. Irresistable and tenacious

Adores people, kids, cats, and dogs.

She's an unusually large Boxer, so she's all about love and kindness like Boxers are, just don't screw with Momma or a kid. Any kid. She no likey that. The kids in the 'hood love her to pieces. Everyone knows her.

Most Boxers are 60-70 pounds, and She towers over them. No fat, all muscle.

We've always had Boxers, but she's an exceptional one. And a raging idiot🤣
 
ahhhh....enter the molasses.
I will check out some vids tomorrow. Thank you! Now get outta here. Lol
The molasses is actually for the microbes. It is a surrogate for high brix root exudates, and gives them a big boost of carbon, causing them to be temporarily very robust, and they poop out higher nutrition for the plant, which in turn can return the favor with extra exudates, like priming a pump.

You can only do it once a month or even less tho, or the microbes become sugar junkies and won't work for myco anymore and brix crashes. But as a one time thing, it's a cash injection for the brix business model. Very effective.
 
Good evening Mr Gee, that's a good looking pup you have there.

One question before you head out on your grand adventure. In these bigger pots, 7 gallon, should I wait to flip to flower when the roots have completely filled the pots edge to edge?

I was digging around to kind of see how far the roots have progressed and to see how the moisture content is holding up. The roots are about 1" from the edge of the pots, best I can tell. I know in flower that they can continue to grow but that's not a priority for the plant. I'm planning on flipping this weekend but I want to make sure that if these plants triple in size the roots will be able to support them.
 
Good evening Mr Gee, that's a good looking pup you have there.

One question before you head out on your grand adventure. In these bigger pots, 7 gallon, should I wait to flip to flower when the roots have completely filled the pots edge to edge?

I was digging around to kind of see how far the roots have progressed and to see how the moisture content is holding up. The roots are about 1" from the edge of the pots, best I can tell. I know in flower that they can continue to grow but that's not a priority for the plant. I'm planning on flipping this weekend but I want to make sure that if these plants triple in size the roots will be able to support them.
They will still grow, especially in stretch. How old are they? I go 8 weeks minimum and the 10gals are always completely full with root tips sticking thru the bottoms.
 
They will still grow, especially in stretch. How old are they? I go 8 weeks minimum and the 10gals are always completely full with root tips sticking thru the bottoms.
Hmm that's a good question lol I would say between 7-9 weeks, my journal was started on the 17 of November lol so at least that old.
 
I can feel them close to the edge when I probe around with the water meter but I haven't seen any poking through. These pots fabrics are much thicker than any I've had before, I'm not sure if that's a factor or not.
 
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