I try to keep the npk under 10. my veg nutes are 5-1-1 and the flower nutes are 0-10-10. It works great and little or no risk of burning the plants. you need n and a little pk for veg, you need 0 n and more pk during flower. The higher npk values just make the nutes hotter and gives more chance to burn the plants. You can use just about anything if your carefull.