That looks great Jogro. I clicked your grow journal and saw your soil mix (nice!) and was wondering what nutes you used and how often. Did you just let the extended release do their thing, or add additional? Cheers!
Thank you.
Nutes for this grow were what was already in the soil (which is some extended release nutes plus whatever organic material was in there). Early in flowering I added a shot of epsom salts for extra magnesium, and did so again about 4 weeks in. Lastly, I also added a few sticks of the Miracle grow "spikes" potted plant food right after the first week of flowering, and one shot of soluble Miracle Gro about 5 weeks in, with a flush the last week. That's pretty much it. To be clear, I'm talking about these things:
On the Miracle Gro spikes, I deliberately didn't mention these in my thread because I didn't want the usual chorus of shrieking nannies clucking about how Miracle-Gro sucks, and how I'm ruining my plants with it, etc.
As you can see, empirically, the spikes work just fine. . .so long as you use the product in limited amounts, are careful about not over or under-watering, and flush thoroughly at the end of your grow (all of which I did). As it happens, I used these mainly because I had them lying around, and I knew from prior experience that they'd work pretty well. Also, with slow-release nutes already in the soil, I knew nutes really probably wouldn't be a limiting factor at all until maybe the very end of the grow.
I'm not in any way claiming that this are the "best" fertilizer around, and for sure there are better formulations out there designed for cannabis with more appropriate trace element content and better ratios. But ultimately it all comes down to meeting the plant's needs in terms of providing appropriate NPK and trace elements, and meeting YOUR needs with respect to cost, access, and convenience.
If you disregard the hysterical shrieking (mostly by those who haven't used it or don't understand what's going on) and actually check the label, this is a complete fertilizer product with good trace element content and a flowering-friendly 6-12-6 NPK ratio. Bluntly, you could do a lot worse. In this case, incremental cost to me was zero (since I already had the product handy) and I saw zero issues with nutes during the grow. So I'd say this worked fine.
Jogro your plant rocks. I use a 250 myself and have had some good results since I learned how to train and be patient. As far as potency and yield. I grew a kandy Kush under my 250 in a 3.5 gallon pot. Did just a little LST and yielded 4+ oz's of some serious potent weed. I plan on scrogging my last Kandy Kush seed. Im sure I can hit 6-8 oz's with her. The few people I did share with are still talking about it 2 years later.
Thank you.
8 ounces out of a 250W HPS is fairly tough with most strains.
To be clear, final yield on this plant was about 2.25 ounces dried and absolutely trimmed to the bone. That's not much in absolute terms, but again it was only a 27" plant grown under half of the 250W HPS. The only things I did in terms of yield/training was top the plant once, spread out the tops a little by bending (ie "supercropping") to let more light in, and prune off the lowest branches right before flowering. After that there was negligible maintenance other than watering. My overall setup also sacrifices some efficiency for stealth, so I'm not quite using the full potential of the light, either.
Despite all that, I think the picture basically tells the tale of what you can expect with this strain in terms of plant/bud structure and potential yield. Williams' Wonder used to be known as a "cash-cropper" strain of high potency, and I think its easy to see why. . .this is just a high yielding strain.
I'm sure a good grower with a high efficiency setup and proper training/organizing should be able to reach the benchmark 1g/w that everyone talks about with this line.
