Anyone ever heard of using brown sugar diluted in water to increase trichomes during flowering? Any input would be appreciated,thanks in advance 
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Yer I would agree with bear - adding sugars must throw the osmotic potential (ability of plants to take in water/nutes) into a strange state. As I don't grow indoors or with hydro systems there may be a place for sugars - I'd imagine it would slow the final flowering stage allowing longer for bud to fatten.
I used to work in labs cloning potatoes we used a complex sugar called Manitol to add to in-vitro growth media so we could put plants into a sort of suspended animation at low temps in growlight low temp incubators - our cloning collection. The manitol had two purposes - to slow the normal uptake of water and nutrients from the growth media (changing the osmotic pressure) and once it was in the plant cutting it also protected the plant material from being put in suspended animation at low temps.
I'm sure there are many way more wise than me on this subject in relation to growing but it always struck me as a bit weird, although it may have a place in the final weeks before harvest in stopping the plant from absorbing water and other nutrients (tricking it into making a final push to get seeded by producing a final flowering flush?), a sort of organic finishing-off additive which could be useful if your trying to finish one plant and leave another in the grow room to flower to continue to maturity?
I may of course be completely wrong in my chemistry but I still think it a bit weird....
I used to work in labs cloning potatoes we used a complex sugar called Manitol to add to in-vitro growth media so we could put plants into a sort of suspended animation at low temps in growlight low temp incubators - our cloning collection. The manitol had two purposes - to slow the normal uptake of water and nutrients from the growth media (changing the osmotic pressure) and once it was in the plant cutting it also protected the plant material from being put in suspended animation at low temps.
I'm sure there are many way more wise than me on this subject in relation to growing but it always struck me as a bit weird, although it may have a place in the final weeks before harvest in stopping the plant from absorbing water and other nutrients (tricking it into making a final push to get seeded by producing a final flowering flush?), a sort of organic finishing-off additive which could be useful if your trying to finish one plant and leave another in the grow room to flower to continue to maturity?
I may of course be completely wrong in my chemistry but I still think it a bit weird....
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It's already been said back strap molasses. Some use more often than others. I at the last 2/3weeks give them some well a container of coconut water lowest sugar you can find and least amount of anything other than just coconut water. Try it it's all about trial and error.
sugars feed bacteria, which feed the plant ( in soil ). a teaspoon of molasses in a gallon of water no more than a couple times in a grow. IMO, organic growers get too eager to pour on the nutes just like bottled nute growers do! Start with a good but simple soil mix and add water, nothing else. You likely have one of your best grows ever!
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