Keith, those number are quite confusing. Nitrogen is, by, far the most prevalent nutrient element in just about any plant.
But, as has been driven home by several truly knowledgeable folks, tissue analysis tells you what the plant has been getting, and nothing at all about what it needs.
As far as fertilizers are concerned, to my mind, there cannot possibly be an “ideal formula”, as nutrient demands are quite variable.
I cannot speak for others, but K-Lite’s formula was not based upon tissue analysis at all. The role of accumulating potassium was speculation based upon two, totally disparate, non-plants facts - one biological and the other totally inorganic. A little searching of the literature however, supported the concept in plants, and was further backed-up by chemical analyses of the initial rainfall reaching epiphytes in tropical rainforests.
Based upon that info, a lot of folks started experimenting, and in about 2 weeks, we’ll reach the ten-year point in that experiment, and I’ve yet to hear any reports of issues that can be attributed to the fertilizer formula.
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