I was having crappy looking plants this past fall with coco and perlite. I ended scraping my grow.
A few weeks later I found this and in my current grow started just feeding daily until runoff.
My plants are much happier. Iβm using a mix of fabric bag and hempy style containers.
I do understand though that local water ph + coco quality can real factors. My local water is good and I must have been lucky with my coco purchase.