no arguments necessary brother especially not from me... we are all hear to farm and grow weed right?
:D
with that said... i dont think Genetics have anything to do with it...bare with me...hear me out
i kinda always laugh at my cali socal boys... they be swearing certain stuff needs a special recipe...while i agree different plants grok different ratios.... the rest is total bullshit. I compared the strain/cut they gave me that "needed special feeding ratios and all other bullshit crap"... we compared and needless to say... they dropped their theory about special formulas and stopped drinking that koolaid.
However, like said above, if you are referencing how different strains may want more of something, i agree with you. I cant pinpoint as to what you are specifically talking about because from your words... "Aqua Flakes A & B clearly did *not* have everything that my plants needed while running in RO" is too vague... but you mentioned RO water...that sparks or brings to mind or makes me think you are referencing cal/mag, no?
If this is the case... hear me out, bare with me some more...
Most folks tend to misdiagnose cal/mag and when they do have it, they also mistreat it...and then expect for it to be fixed.
if cal/mag rust damage is apparent/there on leaf...then there is no fixing it as it is cellular/structural damage. However new growth from there on out will be fixed. When that "rust" spot on the former/older leaf is not fixed, the grower tries to increase dosage of cal/mag further compounding the problem and making your situation even more complexed. This is the starting of the problem in my humble opinion... not saying this is your situation just saying in general.
then you have situation numero dos....where folks arent actually feeding the plant enough of the House & Garden nutes. Thus they will see minor def. in their plant.
This can be fixed by feeding either the proper dosage from h**p://www.house-garden.us/PrinterFriendly/index.html with normal....or you can increase the dosage by usage aggressive...or kind of freestyle with the mL if you know what you doing... dig?
Once you increase the base a & b, things will be fine.
situation numero tres if im growing multiple plants and i only see one or 2 plants have a def, i will foilar feed.... hell even if all of them have a def and its minor and i dont want to change the res...ill foliar feed. I really didnt like any types of foliar feeding cuz i didnt think the messyness outweighted the pro's....that was until i tried
magic green...that shit is like leaf crack.
situation numero cuatro .... the strict feeding of normal and/or aggressive doesnt work, nor does my freestyling of adding a little more work either, nor the foliar feeding.... Well this is why i said in previous post
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also, for the record, stay away from cal/mag unless your plant is specifically SCREAMING at you to give her some... Reason being is most nutrient brands are manufactured and feed charts ARE based off of RO water...mostly 000-001ppm source...
with that said, House & Garden has put 11-12% of cal/mag in the "a" bottle of all its nutrients...so there is PLENTY of it in there, REGARDLESS if you are using RO water.
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the part i bolded was what i was referencing, if she is lacking in
calmag and you've tried all those ideas...then by all means, of course, give her cal/mag....just dont expect to fix already 'rusted' leaves
hope this helps brother... and i didnt take your opinion as an argument...imma laid back type of dude...just wanna grow pot and pay it forward. :D