IIRC the forum got shut down because there was a big legal problem with giving advice for growing MJ without verifying that the person you're advising is licensed to grow it, or something like that. It just wasn't possible to keep the forum open without it blowing up in their faces, so they just shut it down.
I could be wrong on that, but that's what I remember.
"30 percent of their product line is molasses" - 100% of that statement is hilarious. Molasses + hydroponics = nightmarish fungus/mold/slime growth. 9 times out of 10 if you dump molasses in a reservoir you end up with a res full of crud. I think we'd have heard about that by now if AN's stuff was packed full of molasses, don't you agree?
Oh, and people do use AN on other stuff. There's examples on this very forum.
http://www.gardenscure.com/420/flowe...-contrary.html