Here is my issue Joe. With the soil I created, I tested it on first run under good lights, not great and certainly not the most powerful. I got a baseline for what my soil would support in different pot sizes.
Now fast forward to this grow. I upgraded my lights to top of the line Fluence Spydrx Plus. I knew that the more powerful light was going to test the ability of my soil to support the growth the plant would see under the light. The issue I am running into is that I am running into a deficiency in smaller pots after 3 weeks. By smaller pots I mean 1 gallon pots. I was able to get about 4 weeks in 1 gallon pots under the old lights and then I would up pot to their final containers. I am not able to keep them in 1 gallon pots for 4 weeks with the new lights so that tells me that my intuition about the light testing the ability of the soil is correct.
So I need to figure out what deficiency is popping up and rectify it on future batches of soil. In the mean time, the solution in my soil is run in a bigger pot than you would under average lights. So now I am running in 2 gallon pots and seeing if I can get 4 weeks out of it before needing to up pot to its final container (5 gallons for males that i am harvesting pollen for, 7 gallons for strains with a flower time under 10 weeks and 10 gallon pots for strains with 10+ flower times). Keep in mind, I don't use nutes at all for feeding so my soil has to be able to support growth from start to finish. I do use Aerated Compost Teas for a little shot of extra stuff for the microbes in the soil and a tasty little snack for the plant, but thats it unless I see any sort of deficiency.
