Okay great one less thing in my budgetThis is my first time in coco, too, and I've been reading anything I can find on rez/head/lucas in coco for a few months now. Especially the 6/9 ratio. And time and time again I see where growers have stopped using epsom completely. Even Head did.
Your water quality has something to do with it, though. I think they found that RO water or well water didnt have the calcium needed and maybe they added a bit of calmag. But epsom was voted down every time.
Rez and Head themselves said to stop worrying, commit to 6/9 and forgo anything else. Both have said (and shown) it works.
I've been doing the same thing. One time I added 3ML of calmag to a gallon of nutes but felt bad about breaking the formula and never did it again. My plants are looking good, despite putting them into way too much coco