Thanks for the apology but don't worry about it. Negative can only help us reach the positive. I see what you mean about all of this, I think everyone might have took it the wrong way, or I wrote it wrong LoL. But I really do see what you mean. The main thing I was wondering about is hydroponics and aeroponics because they are composed or every nutrient a plant needs. I wrote that earlier but might have not really said the thing about hydroponics and aeroponics. Sorry ya'll.
I am loving it all. I like to hear about soil also because I am gonna grow in my greenhouse this year, when it warms up. The weather is not really in a growers favor lately. When we talk about soil and soil-less mixes I think it is a hard subject because you can have the same bag of soil and it have different nutrient and ph quality all thru out it. That is why usually when I grow I try to use nothing at all just neoprene holding my plants or a net pot with nothing in it. Sometimes hydroton but I kind of hate those as well because they grow mold sometimes or get nutrient build up. See in this topic it is good to hear different stuff because like you said one thing might work for one person, and not the next. Then come to find out they have a different strain of pepper that is not as vigorous as another!? That is why as detailed as someone can get on what they do is better, but keeping it short is good too! Patrick you are a good example because you have played around with a bunch of stuff from the hydroponic store so you may know better than others what is good and not. So the main thing people can do here is the nutrient that you hear the most, that people did good with then you might wanna try it, maybe. I am not saying go buy everything you hear on here though. Like that PH perfect thing I would not recommend going and buying it. I just got a good deal on it and looked at videos that showed the ph going into a good range., but this nutrient line has like a million other additives that also go with it that I don't use and I just add a liquid seaweed nute in there and it did fine. But when you are dealing with hydroponics you will always have to adjust something eventually. But the label said they can't guarantee it will be a perfect ph if you don't use their line of products only and I like to mix and match.
Hope this helps out and I took pictures of all my nutes and will load them in.
especialy by early fall there is a pepper jugle 5ft tall in my back yard, i did notice that chinsens like a little more ferts than annums youd have to have a difrent formula for each species or even variety for optimum groth,i heard alot of nitrogen gives pods a ruff taste, you hydro guys can chime in on that,,i think minerals are often overlooked, also i like all the new benificial fungus and bacteria the help soil, hydro is cool but im still playing in dirt, there is a hole lot that goes in to hydro stuff so what you are talkin about heore is important like guru mentioned you are on a good path, if i was in to hydro, i would try to fine tuune for heat and flavor cuz