Fertilizing or watering plants. Molasses is a by-product of making sugar. Molasses has a tiny amount of nitrogen but it has a lot of trace minerals. Sugar has none. Molasses doesn't do much for plants per se, except for the minerals. It's main purpose is to feed soil micro-organisms and the minerals are just an added benefit. Sugar is nothing but carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Sugar and molasses contain the same amount of carbohydrates, 15 grams per Tablespoon and these carbohydrates are what feed the soil microorganisms. Sugar has more carbon content than molasses at 42% for sugar and about 25% for molasses. But the main difference is the cost of sugar vs molasses. So, in short, sugar will do the same thing molasses does without the benefits of a little nitrogen and all of the trace minerals. I don't see why you couldn't run sugar water through a drip system. All you would have to do is run water through the lines after the sugar water to clean them. The added carbon content of sugar comes from cattle bones which are used as a whitening agent for table sugar. So I suppose sugar also has some properties of bone meal also.
Why not blood bone and fish meal? Well let me rephrase that since prions are not alive and to my understanding cannot be sterilized. There are risks. Why not something more organic?
It isn't linear so far. At least for the first two weeks of the test. Linear would be 3.75 inches per week of increased penetration. Thus far none...zero, nada in either test plot. The soil has been frequently drenched with 1% solution and the rain has picked up substantially which should aid penetration naturally, but none so far. Two weeks and 7.5 inches behind already. Not looking good for the one hand, 5 ft rebar penetration...but its early.
Especially when there are 50 BILLION in an average tablespoon of soil.
Now don't forget I was using jobes tomato tone and epsom salts too. I was running it as rich as possible because more is more right? You might as well plant something there if your going to all this trouble.
I wish you luck in your examinations.
"Is that the US billion ten to the ninth or the English billion ten to the twelfth?"
Don't know. I only report the news, not make it. It is what google said but it didn't say who, what or how to count 50 billion."Is that the US billion ten to the ninth or the English billion ten to the twelfth?"
"Not sure, I'll just check. One, two, three ..."
Maybe you should have a control patch as well. One with just sugar, one with sugar, epsom salt and fertiliser, one with nothing. At least on a three horse race I could start a book, give odds for penetration increasing 0%, 10%, 50%, 100% or five foot.