A turf paradox: better turf in soils with lower nutrient content

You can sometimes, perhaps more often than you would think, find soil under good turf to have lower nutrient content than does soil under poor quality turf. In this episode, I explain why that is, what the implications of this phenomenon are, and what you can do about it.
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In my planted tanks (lol), I would see very similar results. High light, which resulted in faster growth, would consume the nutrients faster and end the week with leaner water. And sometimes, go into deficiencies issues. And pretty fast if very high light and not much nutrients.
In a low light tank, nutrients would hang around for much longer. So end of week (week cycle of tests and dosing), and test would show much higher nutrients in water column. So we would dial the dose to do much less nutrients in low light tanks.
*we're using RO filted water, 50% weekly water change, weekly nutrient doses.
All that said, I never saw the connection of lower nutrient and better plant growth or quality. There would be differences and some quite shocking. Like some plants would show different shapes, color, and size with different nutrient levels. Its a common thing to limit nitrogen to get red comor on some plants. But that can also kill the plant if taken to an extreme and ive done that lol.
Too much nutrients would generally be associated with greener leaves and faster growth. Not always what we wanted.