Hi mate , i wouldnt chop branches off myself , it will hurt it more an slow your grow ! the thing with using soil is what you feed gets stuck in the soil and not all what you feed will get to the roots an runs off and makes the soil hotter & hotter and burns them easy ! i would feed it 300ppm total thats including the water ppm combind and make sure there is some cal mag in there ! mate ide beware reading the back of nutrient labels as they mostly give you such high advertised amounts that would fry them easy !
Andrew-- this has nothing to do with the molasses mate, even at 1T/L, that's no where near toxic proportions... Molasses has Ca, Mg some K and a little Fe in it, plus the sugars help fire up the soil/medium herd which in turns helps cycle nutes better, and this helps the plant,.. What I see is longer term nutrition issues overall (purple color on main stem is a clue), and most of the leaf wasting is P defc., also causing the poor bud setting,... you say you have whole branches that have gone tits-up? Hmm, this plant is FUBAR, question is why,... pH issues are the [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG] suspect, but to help you avoid this in the future we need more info! Go here, and fill this out please, and we'll see....