Molasses as Legume Inoculant?

[WtFugarwe]

One guy told me that since inoculant is difficult to come by in Farm quantities --he uses molasses. Interested in the insight of others. Cheers.

[teletiger]

http://www.permies.com/t/17936/organic/Soil-Inoculant-Fix-Nitrogen-legumes

Would EM do the same thing?

Regards.

[tw25rw]

Sounds like he is using molasses to make compost tea, but that is to provide an energy source for the bacteria in the compost. Molasses on its own would be fairly sterile I would have thought.

[rice555]

Hello All, there has been several threads on inoculants and someone menshioned

where he picked some up.

The inoculant I was using was from the US, www.groworganic.com and depending

what you are growing, an 1.5oz. bag of inoculant will do 300Lb's of soybeans or 50Lb's

of alfalfa/clover seed. You need to have someone remail it as some won't ship outside US.

It only take a few grains of the stuff to work, it doesn't need to be coated like an M&M

peanut, its a really fine powder. I used a spray bottle with milk, spray the seed and let dry,

start filling a bucket with the seed, some inoc, more seed, more inoc and mix and plant.

With the real stuff, you need to treat the seed OUT OF THE SUN!!! Don't leave in the sun

and plant all you treated.

I thought there was a home brew method made with cowshit that I read online to treat

the seed.

The 1.5oz. bags are U$5-10.

rice555