You should try a dry nutrient like jacks or the like and make your feeding much simpler. Sounds way too complicated. Half the stuff your feeding probably isn’t needed anyway as a good nutrient program like jacks is all that is needed from start to finish then you could make up some gallons of stock solution and dose for the phases you want to feed. I’m not so sure I would even grow if it was all that complicated. It’s a weed it required very little to grow and be healthy IMHO
i hear ya. By the time I'm trafficking (hahaha), I'd use dry. Shipping costs alone are nuts. If only, for example, GH Flora Series were available as a dry. I'm just used to it. I'm learning stuff. Although it ultimately probably depends on the grower, I've noticed superior quality when using more than just the 3-part base liquid GH Flora Series; for example, $150/gallon Floralicous Plus has got to be dong something, but there are a few other supplements I can probably eliminate.
I've heard good things about Jacks, though I've also read comments about it running hot. I'll consider it.
Currently, it's not terribly difficult. The 15 ml tubes came in. So, I have a spreadsheet. I just type in the multiplier (i.e., # of gallons), and all my single gallon doses are multiplied by the #.... I'm loading each tube with a 2-gallon dose of parts A, B, or C for seedling, early veg, late veg; and bloom phases 2 and 4, 7, & 8. Each tube is stored in a box with 30-49 tubes of the same nutrient and dose. And in one box, I'm thinking I can combine 2-gallon doses of Floralicious Plus, FloraBlend, etc. into one tube and multiply 30-49 times.
So, now a ~13-part system is reduced to 4 + the remaining nutes are in such small volumes I might just go straight to the source (e.g., monosilicic acid, Cal-Mag). So, then, it's up to like 6 parts. I probably won't add silica for phase 8 (ripening), maybe not phase 7 either. I have 10 ml glass pipettes and a Ninja blender (if needed). I just combine my capsules into a 2.5 gallon container with spigot, shake, pour into individual gallon containers or sprayers. sIMpLe. haha.
Instead of prepping weekly, I can get most of done pretty much monthly. The ~daily 2-gallon fill-ups will take a couple minutes to prepare. Space-saver though. Current setup with like 80+ gallons in the kitchen doesn't leave you with much cover when maintenance has to come over. hahaha.
Fresher, fewer/no precipitates.
Mids are unacceptable.