We’ve balanced soils in both the indoor and outdoor growing environments and have identified key differentiators and similarities in these two worlds. The main difference is the soil volume/weight associated with the plant. Indoor soil volume/weight (pots) is usually small making the indoor growing system small. Small systems have no momentum so the growing parameters can change very quickly as result of any perturbation. On the other hand, when growing outdoors (plants planted in the ground), the soil volume/weight is larger which creates a much larger momentum factor and this making the parameters are much slower to change. Therefore, it’s much easier to control an outdoor system than an indoor one. That’s why considerable input is required by man to control an indoor system. Never-the-less, whether indoor or outdoor, 1st Choice Fertilizer products will greatly reduce the amount of input by you and allow you to move toward an autonomous system with far less errors/mistakes. To assist in the control of either systems, indoor and/or outdoor laboratory analysis will greatly help in identifying the whether the parameters have fallen out-of- the target ranges. Target data of the parameters allow a holistic approach for trouble shooting issue.