if you "have" to do it often, it's definitely self-inflicted. Needing to do it occasionally is pretty typicala with soil. it's fox farm, so the instructions are way out of balance and "hot." the canopy is likely to be damaged in flower most of the time unless you've learned some esoteric method through trial and error - a long learning curve, in general, for no reason. Well, they instruct you to do it this way for greed. i'm not a fan of soil that that is a personal preference. FF sucks.. that is a well-fortified opinion, lol. they instruct insanely high levels of fertilization and their soil comes with huge chunks of lumber in it and nowhere near enough perlite (or similar). Not a fan. They are as shady as AN.