Hahaha, yeah, I figured you had gone through the whole thing when I got over 90 notifications over the course of last night and this morning :eek:
Thanks so much for taking the time to read/look through everything I have posted! There really is a ton of information in here, and the users like you who take advantage of it will be a step ahead!
The reason behind not switching from hydroponic medias like Oasis, Rockwool, or Coco is because the ideal pH to provide ideal nutrient availability (different nutrients are more or less available at different pH) is different for hydroponic medias compared to soils. Soils I think are ideal around 6.5-7 pH and hydro medias are ideal around 5.5-6 pH (some say 5.8-6.2). If you have a little rockwool cube for rooting clones, and you plant that into a soil pot, there probably wont be any major problems. . . since the rockwool makes up such a small portion of the volume for root mass. But if you planted a 2 gallon coco grown plant into a 5 gallon pot of a soil based media like
FFOF, then you are gambling between having the best of both worlds (nutrients available at both pH ranges because you have both medias) and having the worst of both worlds (very difficult to find an ideal pH for feeding when half your media is ideal at 6.5 pH and half your media would provide more nutrients at 5.5 pH)
Common sense might tell you to feed at a pH of roughly 6, right in the middle, but that isn't how the media chemistry works, and you will just make the nutrients less available in both medias. Make your life simpler, pick one media type (hydro or soil), not both.
I hope that answer clears things up for you, thanks again for checking out the whole thread!
-Meeks