Here's my take on recipes and deficiencies. If you monocrop a mom for a few years "dialing in" a nute regimen is a great production tool. All for getting weight - not necessarily bringing out the finer points of each plant.
But a seed mom will have different needs than her clone, and two seeds from the same bud on the same plant can have different needs.
Using that as a building block, there is probably a base - very light - recipe that will work for most plants. The more you give them, the more chance of missing that sweet spot there is. Why? Because we really don't know what the fuck they need at any given time
If we did there would be no deficiencies.
There is also the fact that it's an annual. Keeping a mom plant for a long time is unnatural. It is probably more prone to having systemic problems that look like deficiencies along with actual deficiencies if you are trying to 'cook' this plant on the back burner while taking clones on the regular.
I try not to preach, but this is the main draw of living soil. Instead of playing at chef, you are playing at gardener recreating a little garden for the plant to grow in complete with worms and cover crops and whatever. I ain't in any of the cults. Growing in living soil under fake lights in a tent in my spare bedroom ain't natural either
But is sure is a lot easier once you get going. And cheaper. With no metersand such.
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