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Originally Posted by Treelore  Mollasses used a s a food in a biological innoculum is fantastic because this will select when aerated correctly beneficial disease suppressing bacteria which can then be placed into the ground and utilized by the tree as it needs. |
On one hand you suggest that the use of molasses is great and then slam the idea in the next sentence.
As with all things, moderation and use in the right circumstances allows for molasses (mixed with additional "soil activators") to bring back to life microflora and fauna in the soil otherwise absent from long held beliefs in the use of salty petrochemical fertilizers, developers who drag off the top 12 inches of decent soil when building, etc.
I don't use it routinely and I would encourage anyone who "fertilizes" trees to first get an understanding of soil biology and soil chemistry.
"The problem with carbohydrate drenching and sugar water is you are feeding and activating biomass without an understanding of what you are causing to proliferate. It is food across the board and does not select for disease supressing organisms but allows all to flourish."
And no, I don't drench soils with "sugar water."
As a biologist with a chemistry minor and 34 years of doing this kind of work, I have a better grasp of fertilizing trees than 99% of the folks in my part of world will ever have.
We always inject the fertilizer combinations under high pressure on closely spaced holes to aerate and fracture the soil. Very heavy soils or compacted soils are treated differently than sandy or loose soils.