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It seems to me (and I've been practicing this, to great success), that you want to vary your PH. I use coco, so I'll feed it 5.8 usually for nutrients, but on occasion I'll go 5.5 or 6.3. When I flush (every 3-4 feedings) I'll give it 6.3-Straight-Tap. Coco buffers PH well, so I don't want to get a lot of Ph-Down stuck in my soil, affecting future feedings. I had another pertinent anecdote for this reply, but alcohol made me forget it.
One more outlandish idea that I agree with is my own hypothesis that if you have plants with very healthy/dense root masses, then having 'hot-spots' is beneficial... certain nutrients absorb more readily under certain acidic climates, so having spots which each are specialized in absorbing different nutrients might be the healthiest future for the plant
edit: DON'T OVER FEED!!! USE 1/3 OF RECOMMENDED DOSAGE TO BEGIN WITH, RAMP UP TO 1/2 THEN 2/3! YOU WILL DEFINITELY LEARN WHAT"S NEEDED MUCH EARLIER THAN TRYING TO OVERFEED YOUR PLANTS!
One more outlandish idea that I agree with is my own hypothesis that if you have plants with very healthy/dense root masses, then having 'hot-spots' is beneficial... certain nutrients absorb more readily under certain acidic climates, so having spots which each are specialized in absorbing different nutrients might be the healthiest future for the plant
edit: DON'T OVER FEED!!! USE 1/3 OF RECOMMENDED DOSAGE TO BEGIN WITH, RAMP UP TO 1/2 THEN 2/3! YOU WILL DEFINITELY LEARN WHAT"S NEEDED MUCH EARLIER THAN TRYING TO OVERFEED YOUR PLANTS!