@dickwhite Hi, how exactly can I make my coins 'wait' until the network difficulty is lower?  Thanks.

Why does it do that?  I guess that was my main question.  Why?  Why not deposit it in one big chunk again, so lets say in my case, it would have just redeposited 6.2k worth of coins?

the splitting is normal, you can use coin control to recombine them if you want. select the blocks using coin control and then send to yourself. Yes the default settings will pick the youngest coins to send out. Using coin control you can pick and choose. To enable coin control. Choose Settings > Options in the menu bar and click Display tab in the next open window. Check the display coin control features box and OK to close window. Now choose Send coins tab and you will see a new coin control button just below. Click on that and a new window will open with all info about your coin blocks including weight.

you can see from the above post he was staking blocks of 1 tekcoin without issue. there may be some advantage to larger blocks staking faster, however you keep earning stake coinage until the blocks mints. longer wait will pay you for more hours. I am not sure what is really the optimal strategy and it may even vary from user to user.

 I like to stake 1-2 larger blocks a day myself, just worked out that way for a few reasons for me.

i like to use the console command to shut off staking reservebalance=true 100000000 (some large number). Then i will use getinfo and watch the pos diff and hopefully it comes down to around .0000x (40%) currently it looks like .0011 (20%?). When i choose to mint i enter reservebalance=false and it will stake.

Last month i held off for 5 days staking during a diff spike.. but earned 5 more days of coinage when i turned it on, imagine now though the market was going crazy and you want to sell, do you break coinage? this is why i like to try and keep a sort of even daily amount staking, it lets me access fresh coins often without killing coinage.

It took some time but, yes, I merged small blocks to big ones and do so when they stake for several reasons:
- Because TEK has no min stake reward, blocks can be as big as you want and still get max stake. 30 day maturity also allows me to shut down the wallet for extended periods -- not so great for the network, though.
- Big blocks gain weight fast, which equals quick staking.
- I like to watch difficulty for max percentage reward. It is easier with big blocks as there are fewer of them. Why not just one huge block? If I delay a block from staking, I will earn more coins but lose on compounding. I think on average I delay only half my big blocks. YMMV.
- Many small blocks will raise difficulty, giving you less reward.
- Many small blocks demand more resources from your computer.
- Security wise, I think my strategy is safer since I only unlock my wallet a short time to stake as opposed to leaving it open 24/7. (We really need unlock for POS only GUI toggle.)
- I feel like a stud with big blocks. 

Seriously, it's just my strategy. You do whatever works for you. Cheers.