Honey

[Iamthewitness]

Can I use honey on my plants in the same way as I've been using molasses , wanted to give some to a girl whose got a few weeks flower left

p.s. I've got some high quality honey from vermont and I usually git some very nice honey locally

 

[A-Train]

I cannot speak from first hand experience but I wondered the same a while back and the summary foem all the answers I found is yes you can use it and no its not as effective.... not sure if its true but one guy stated that in organic soils the honey is a natural antibiotic and can kill benificial bacteria in living soil....

Hope this helps

 

[A4]

Can I use honey on my plants in the same way as I've been using molasses , wanted to give some to a girl whose got a few weeks flower left

p.s. I've got some high quality honey from vermont and I usually git some very nice honey locally

Normally I would say use anything natural. In this case please do not use honey. As atrain said, honey is a natural antibiotic and if you are growing with living soil it can wipe out your microbes, beneficial bacteria and beneficial fungi. It can be used when taking clones for an antibacterial on the stems but that is the only way I would use it for gardening.

I cannot speak from first hand experience but I wondered the same a while back and the summary foem all the answers I found is yes you can use it and no its not as effective.... not sure if its true but one guy stated that in organic soils the honey is a natural antibiotic and can kill benificial bacteria in living soil....

Hope this helps

Good recommendation atrain! Glad to have more organic gardeners answering questions.

 

[Iamthewitness]

Ok thx guys good to know, I'll stick to the molasses

 

[Eyes on Fire]

i know guys who use fresh hive honey in small amounts as a fermenting agent and added as an inoculate thas eaten up as a food source in soils and slightly in teas built out over 2 days.from what I understand it adds smaller enzyme eating properties.but ive not used it much myself/.used it once and had no issues but was an experiment lol.

said they had fair results but i cant confirm this.but ive used it in a small hardy tea and a soup molasses style once with no apparent slowing of the growth.only did it once.but worked fair enough the cpl times ive used it.tea didnt skip a beat man.soup i really couldnt say..:Sharing One:

edit:also if its got surfactant properties could you use it to essentially strip the soil with say a yucca mellow watering as a pre rinse for pure meds and curing prior to choping it and also getting some mellow sugars too? just thinkg about it is all.

 

[Iamthewitness]

I don't know enough about honey to make sense out of that eyes lol someone might find it useful, reason I asked is cause I was looking at one of swamp mans threads and he said he used honey with good results but I decided to ask first cause I can barely understand most things swampman says

 

[Eyes on Fire]

oh yeah dude swamper buddy and foreman(A4) you should listen to ofcourse.I know I do.but A4 is right but what Im talking about is the microbe amounts.you can add many things as long as the initial dampening of killing on some cases with adding things is to make sure you invading stuff(IE:Honey in this case) can be easily dominated.also in a tea ive used it lightly but again same principle allpies imho.but when used in soil such as my buddies i mentioned they lightly drizzled it over some dryer soil and covered it with a well worked copmpost and added inoculate and let it dry up and mix it and borke up all the busted dry pieces of honey of fresh hive stuff and then worked the soil as per normal.you can use many things like that but always making sure your good microbial life will dominate for the type you want and to maintain.so they'll provide food and enzyme builders and like foreman said for cloning its great too.you could essentially use it for a multitude of things imho if you figured out the right ratios to use it.but again less is more in many cases as you knwo bro lol!!

 

[Iamthewitness]

Interesting... I also have some high quality honeycomb is there any use for that ? Before it reaches my belly that is...

 

[Eyes on Fire]

it is exactly that..lol interesting. but is it real honey comb or the cereal?lmfao!!sure im sure you could use it in some fashion.especially if your doing an outdoors compost pile that building well.small pieces and turn it through completely maybe even soaking if spraying some sugar water on them and mix with a little frass or similar if you have something like that. or a small trace mineral batch like a shake n bake lmfao!!keeping it simple and providing them with builders for the pile and to help them break down and attract them beni bugs that your looking for.again its about balance and the activity of the soil.and imho it also can be used in mellow manners like honey itself.but thats how id do it actually.hopew that helps a lil:Sharing One:

 

[Iamthewitness]

Yes I think, makes me think if I was a honey farmer I'd could be doin stuff like that