I think that some people use too many nutrients, and some people use few. I think it is unclear to people of what the plants need, and also what strain you are growing and what they need as well. I think environment and temperature and skill of the grower is also so vital to growing good, high quality, marijuana.
I started growing marijuana probably 6 years ago, and I went through so many errors purchasing things I did not need. I am not a big fan of
bud candy personally, I just thought of it as a money waster. Considering that it was difficult to make money for me to grow when I was spending so much money on Nutes, I did some intense research. Really, the plants do not need much to survive and THRIVE and yield to its fullest.
Simply said, plants need their N-P-K, and they need their vitamins, enzymes, auxins and proteins. A good source for the proteins are cytokines.
So I ended up getting the same results purchasing a base product system like G
eneral Hydroponics cheap grow line consisting of flora micro, flora grow, and flora bloom, and buying one other product called
Golden Tree as the additive to use with the other stuff that would give my plants everything else other than the N-P-K.
My results ended up being better with this nutrient line than using the 10 other nutrients that were costing me too much money to make money from.
In the end I only ended up spending like $50 on nutrients per pound I pumped out.