I get what ur saying... the article i posted has rather simple instructions on how to determine what ur nuitrient content should be... and on what is being taken out by the plant and at what time.... therefore it seems rather simple to just put back what is being taken... my understanding was this is a huge part of why hydroponics was used in the first place.. resources..
so my question is assuming nuitrient balance and content goes well... is there any other reason?? disease? root discharge? idk...
what i was trying to show w the spreadhseet was if u look at what my estimate are of what weed plants are taking out based on that paper... its basically the same thing the whole time lol...
i think this is why u always hear bugbee saying 1.3 and 20-10-20 straight thru... that paper i think is his some of the reasonning their...
Bugbee has an array of lab equipment at his disposal, trying to grow exactly how he does is not the way to go unless you have hundreds of thousands to spend on all the lab equipment to constantly analyze everything and grad student slaves to do it for you.
Cherry pies, blackberry pies and apple pies. There are 10 pie eaters and 10 slices to each pie. However right now they prefer cherry and every day they eat all 10 slices of the cherry and split 2 slices of blackberry and 2 slices of apple. Every day though you bring a new pie of each kind. Very soon you will have no cherry every day but tons of leftover apple and blackberry pie.
In plants too much of a nutrient can be just as detrimental as not enough and cause lock outs and a plethora of problems. Of course if you have grad students and a full lab to analyze exactly what was eaten every day then you can replace according to need.
I love Dr Bugbee, but he also has all of this stuff at his disposal we don't. If you do have it, then well why even be here in the first place and I'm jealous.