Yeah, the scientific stuff is what we were conditioned to in the past with hydro growing
and honestly the best plants I have ever grown were outdoors in South Florida, and we did very little for them. Maybe water if it was dry (those gel polymers were best in this case) and feed.
Feeding was rare as the top soil was full of biodegraded nature and soil below was more sand like allowing drainage.
Science IS Nature!
We've lost this concept in the West. We commune with profits, indoctrination, regulation and avoiding punishment from the government. This mindset is behind the idea of autopsies----to figure out how things work----and synthetic duplication of what is found in nature. Drugs, not food, fresh air, exercise and spiritual health.
Instead, we should be communing with living things, producing food, Truth, Liberty and helping others....much of which is ILLEGAL!!!! This mindset is behind watching living things to see how things work, instead of cutting up dead things. it is behind using nature as it is, and not trying to re-create it in the lab. Food, fresh air, clean water, exercise and spiritual health.....not drugs.
So, the most scientific thing you can do is let nature do all the work, with us merely helping to put all the pieces into place.