i use the golden tree it is some stanky shit,but has a purpose enzyms too,by no means am i saying lay them down,but understand them first,best thing i can tell you to do as i have many before you,take a glass or cup and how ever many bottles of stuff you use or want to use ,make that many cups,same amount of water in each cup,check ph and ppm of that water,write it down,the take 1ml of each product and check both ph and ppm of each product in there seperate glass ,then you know what you have and what it does to your over all numbers if you dig,you can take some of those difrent products and use as ph up or down,take cal mag for example,raises ph right,so that said and reason i mentioned to take your regular mix and cut the nutes by half and check them is because losing the silica alone will drop the ph.
another example ,i was doing a hydro grow outside past summerin a 33 gal trash can,do you realize how hard changing that res water was with a watermelon plant coming out of it and growing into a tressil on a wall,didint happen but 1 time and i figured that shit out,the same way i describe with the glasses,so every other day i had to top off 5 gal of mix,i check the ppm which is minerals ,food,then check the ph,so if my ph was running low id add cal nit or if plant was yellowing,mag sulfate,when i added the food the ph dropped a lot,so ph low i give a little more food,if im not as green as i want to be i drop the food and add mag,you see what im doing there,im using the actual feed program to rise and lower my ph topping off 5 gal every 2 days was damn sure easier than dumping and restoring a 33 gal res every couple weeks lmao