Clonebranch--I think that most growers who grow both hydro and soil find that the hydro outperforms the soil grows especially during veg. I get a lot better and more explosive growth from hydro than I ever get with soil. Hydro is a lot harder than soil though. If you did not have good luck several years ago, it probably had nothing at all to do with nutes and more to do with pH, ppms, or root temps or something like that rather than the brand of nutes you used.
DGF, what is cheap is relative to how much money you have. I live now on an amount of money that most would find almost impossible. I have not tried Bloombastic--maybe I will try and work it into the budget :rofl:. But note, that clonebranch was talking about using only Kool Bloom and no regular nutes. Cannabis does not live on P and alone.