I have problems just like everyone else. Let's talk about them and some other problems associated with no till.
I used Teufels compost...which isn't the best. I'm 4 1/2 weeks into flower on my second run and I'm struggling to keep up with them. Appears like I have an immobile element that's not cycling. I've been throwing just about everything in the book at em lately too. I'm not super surprised by the situation either.
First crop is done and harvested. So now I can work on making my soil come alive.
All my beds have recently been topdressed with 20gallons of a mix of Bu's compost, Stutzman Farms chicken manure, and soil from my old no till. I have 16lbs of red wigglers on the way...1lb for each 500g bed. Plus 4lbs of a wiggler/euro mix that I'll use in my old personal no till that now serves as a worm bin.
I've done about 20 cups worth of barley SST. Alfalfa/kelp/chicken manure teas. Fish hydrolyslate. Plenty of aloe too. Some
Protekt. Gonna buy some coconut water powder in the morning.
This was my bad for not getting worms and a really nice 2-3" quality topdress sooner. I know the beast I'm playing with here! Lol.
After a few years in the same soil...yeah it can become boringly easy.
Here are a couple things to watch out for that took me quite some time to realize. Be very careful if you switch light sources from early veg to bed. Unfortunately I go from T5 to double ended HPS currently. When I move them I turn the lights down to 50% and only have half of them on too for about a week before I transplant. This 'hardens' them off and now I transplant into the beds...always with an alfalfa/kelp/aloe tea.
I never transplant a root bound plant into the beds either...it can take weeks for them to recover from the shock. I try to time the transplant within a week from the veg plant needing water daily. For some reason smaller plants always seem to do better with no transplant shock. I prefer 3 gallon pots for veg.
And will you knock it off with the whole pest thing? In most circles I run in you wouldn't be considered a real pot grower if you've never had spider mites. Just saying. Lol.