Depends on a few variables, mostly my schedule outside the garden. If it was ideal I would be in much larger planters with that long of a veg time. Makes it easier to handle strains that are hungry or finicky about root space. Honestly there's always a slight bit of early yellowing in my five gallons with that long of a veg but I've only seen it affect yield if I'm negligible about watering, dry periods will straight wreck a blooming plant in that small of a planter.
When it comes to aloe I prefer it live just because there are compounds that immediately start to degrade. There may be a beneficial reason to using the dried version in some applications, but I'm not aware of any. I usually keep my aloe and coco ratios at 1:1, in regards to how much of each per gallon.. Depends on how tired I am, how much coconut water I have, and how big my plants are lol. Usually I'll drain two young coconuts which yield anywhere from a half cup to two cups depending on age, blend it up with roughly equal amounts of aloe, then depending on how much I have I'll dilute it at anywhere from a quarter cup of 1:1 coco/aloe per gallon of water all the way up to 1:1 ratio of water: aloe/coco. But that heavy of a feeding is more so wasteful than anything. I only do it that heavy when I have a small amount of soil mass to water and the houseplants aren't thirsty. Nothing has ever shown stress from how heavy I use either, never. Not even when I watered my seedlings with pure aloe/coco and humic acid.