High Phosphorous is necessary outdoors cause it leeches so redily. We don't need it. From what I've been reading,,,,an NPK ratio of something like 3-1-5 might be best for grow AND flower. Can't remember if it's Cal or Mag (or both) but they are used in numbers higher than P too.
There's a TON of new research out there showing this. Most of it is WAY over my head. After hours and hours of reading it makes me ask myself...howtheHELL do any of us manage to make anything grow without a degree in horticulture as well as a phd in chem??.. Sure wish I understood more of what these people go on and on and on and on about lol...but there is the odd scholar and degree holder who also grows weed. When they get involved in those "over MY head" discussions, a layman like me gets to actually glean some useful info and see some pertinent results.
Apparently, high P at beginning of bloom can shock the plant into creating more flower sets or bloom sites...and late in flower can be useful but all the way through...no.
Here's a link to a thread that's over 300 pages long. It's chock full of pissing and fighting and a lot of bullshit...but there is a lot of great info and a lot of links to studies and stuff. If you can stay open minded and wade through the miles of bullshit, you can learn quite a bit..without reading all 300+ pages:
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=191007&highlight=myth
It's what has got me looking more at DM. They seem to know at least some of the "truth". Now looking at the ratios of the Holland Secret base nutes I'm using, they seem to have a clue about this too.
Now, if I could just understand exactly how the numbers work and shit...I could try some different ratios just with what I have.
ANYWAY...I take it all with a grain of salt and..I'm having great results the old "wrong" way and I'm not really in a big hurry to turn everything upside down and have massive failures for the point of doing an experiment.
Now, if I had a bigger permit that would be a different story...maybe...probably not.
I have decided though, thanks to you guys at least in part...I'm gonna go with the DM Gold NUTRIENT Grow A-B and Flower A-B next time around. That wont be for a month or so though. I aint throwing the old stuff in the drain that's for sure...well I will but not before running it past my plants first lol.
PEACE and thanks again for all your input. FUCK AN....for now lol.