If you use a drip clean type product you'll not have to worry about feeding every watering. You don't have to "sock em" EVEN, and especially if you feed every watering. For example, I use a base 6ml Micro/9ml bloom with Kool Bloom Powder "slams" @ days 15, 29, and 36 @ 1tsp per gallon (on top of the 6/9 base, one feeding on each day, then back to base). There are some basic additives along the way, rhizotonic,
cal-mag when needed, multi-zen through week 4 and some type of sugar, usually molasses. Also feed every single watering, unless the plants tell me to back off, then the remaining base in the res gets h20 added on top and they get fed the reduced solution until gone, ttips go back to green and the base is then brought back to full strength. Micro is cut in half wk 6 and then completely cut out week 6, the base becoming 9ml bloom through week 7, then flush week 8 and 9 = clean burning, tasty, smelly herb with no left over anything, total flush, only fed what they need through the cycle, but every single time that pot goes dry. They use it all up and get more the next watering, they do indeed, love it.
ps - you'll find only use for a ph pen w/ this recipe.... No ppm meter needed for anything other than curiosity. I don't own one.