Good Organic Source of Potash?

LumperDawgz2 · Aug 11, 2011

Black Strap Molasses

Molasses is made from sugar cane, sugar beet, and citrus. It is most commonly made from sugar cane.

There are three major types of sugar cane molasses: unsulphured, sulphured and blackstrap. There are also three major grades of cane molasses: first molasses, second molasses, and blackstrap molasses.

When sugar cane is harvested, the leaves are stripped, the juice extracted by crushing or mashing, and then boiled and processed to extract the sugar. The results of the first boiling and processing is first molasses â€“ this has the highest sugar content. The results of the second boiling is second molasses. Second molasses is darker in colour and has a slightly bitter taste. Black strap molasses is from the third boiling.

Unsulphured molasses is the finest quality first molasses and is made from the juice of sun-ripened cane and the juice is clarified and concentrated. Sulphured molasses is made from green sugar cane that has not matured long enough and is treated with sulphur fumes during the sugar extracting process.

There are a number of different types and sources of molasses and some have already had the maximum amount of sugar removed and will therefore not be sweet. There are two main types of organic molasses: HTM (High Test Mollases) and Black Strap Molasses.

HTM is a sweet syrup with a high brix content of 80-84 percent. (Brix is a term originally used for pure sucrose solutions to indicate the percentage of sucrose in the solution on a weight basis. Molasses contains, glucose, fructose, raffinose and numerous non-sugar organic materials, as well as sucrose. Therefore the Brix value for molasses will often differ dramatically from actual sugar or total solid content. It really represents specific gravity.) The high-test molasses is a heavy, partially inverted cane syrup (no sugar removed), however molasses is a term generally used to designate material from which sugar has been removed.
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HTM = Hi-Brix Molasses

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Husky42 · Aug 11, 2011

mike 0ryezal said:

not to be a dick but high-brix means high in sugar brix is a term used to determine the actual sugar content

without putting it on a refractometer it would be hard to tell weather or not it is actually high in sugar content but regardless that is what high brix means

edit* didn't see another post regarding me response
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Yea no shit?

I'm talking about this specific product. Its formulated to work in hyrdo and what i read on it explained that this had lower sugars. Maybe the info on this specific product was wrong, i only passed on what i thought was correct based on what i read on this shit.

I like the stuff and my bud looks pretty decent. So whatever.

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