Good to know about the fox farm. The current set of plants that I have are in the FFoF and my friend who is using it uses no nutrients, personally, I feel like that would be a very attractive option. I would much rather have to only think about watering the plants, and it would really cut down the need for any flushing at the end of the grow. Seems to me from an engineering perspective that going from clone into 5 gal cloth pot, veg, grow only adding water, no need to flush would really cut out a huge amount of work. Plus if you are only using water it would be much easier to implement an automated watering system...
What kind of nutrient toxicity do you think it is? Are you sure that is it not a deficiency like Mg? Maybe its just a balance issue, you added nuts and kicked the plant growth up a notch and the soil did not have enough Mg handle it? Everyone always seems to be saying that with the LEDs the plants suck up a lot more Mg.
BTW I am a newbie grower really still... only on like my 4th flowering set of plants at the time being... And I just had to add some Mg today
my nute issue was over fert burn and mostly Nitrogen tox, ,, how can I tell you ask, I had the classic CLAW of the leaves,, no other nute problem causes claw other than nitrogen toxicity,, and once your nit tox your screwed, it causes much less yeild and other problems,
Can you grow a complete plant start to finish is ffof,, yes several growers say you can, but your stuck, your stuck with that they give you and you cant change anything,,
My biggest mistake was not waiting for a nute def to show itself first, if ever a nute def even showed up, dont guess at nute issues, look at leaf charts and make sure what your seeing lines up with the problem, thats the biggest problem I am having with soil, quess work,, i hate guess work,, " how does it feel",,
the other biggest problem was not being able to flush, get your plants so you can either take them to the bath tub , or have them up on a grate and over a tub so you can flush, you say it would be nice to not have to flush, thats true, but what if your like me and something comes up, and your only solution is to flush to correct,
then I say if your going to the trouble to se t up to be able to flush,, then why not go hempy bucket,, and get the easy of soil, and the speed and big BOOM buds and speed of hydro,, if your going to measure run off and measure ph and other things in soil, then your already doing what hydro requires