I should know better - but here's the dumb question anyway

hi folks:
i've done two grows in two years and have pretty much just paid attention to what was happening to my plants and used good judgment. HOWEVER, i have this question: when a plant description says 8-9 weeks for a flowering time, does that mean flowering will be at it's peak in 8-9 weeks? i just bought some nirvana white widow seeds and have seen some vegging for 10 weeks alone (which seems excessive). i'm planning an indoor grow with 125W fluoro (which worked tremendously well with master kush last year).
thanks for your help.

id say start the budding and the 8-9 weeks on the description shows the time needed for when u switch to 12/12.

Booch

You are correct...the descriptions indicate the amount of time flowering is required generally to reach full maturity.

yea wtf are u talkin bout d1kraziethug?? its the flowering time, not the vegging time.

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Originally Posted by mellow mood

yea wtf are u talkin bout d1kraziethug?? its the flowering time, not the vegging time.

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read his post again, i understood what he meant, and he doesnt mean veg time 8-9 weeks
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to clarify my first post -- i saw reviews of nirvana white widow that said they vegged for ten weeks - then went into flowering for another 8-9 (i haven't grown it yet).
last year with the master kush, the plants started to show sex after five weeks. i immediately switched to 12/12 and harvested in another five weeks (the odor was simply too strong to cover up and the plants had to go). however, i'd say i cut only a week early. about fifty percent of the pistils had changed colors. the total growing time was 9-10 weeks (total growing time). hence, the questions of what the 8-9 weeks (or 73 days - or whatever) "flowering time." the kush last year flowered and matured in half the time indicated as "flowering time." any and all comments are welcome (and the master kush was a blast!)

Id say if you were to let it grow more after the alternating branches showed you would have done yourself better in the end.

and thanks for the defense notanovice ;-)

da1 -- i understood what you meant too (and you're right about the alternating branches). however, i started late in the summer so by the time the grow matured all the windows in the house were closed. the smell from the grow room permeated the house like stink on a monkey.

you coulda put some money into getting an air pump to suck all the stink out a window. If it was getting cold you could seal the open part of a window. Might be a little ghetto but I'd say it woulda been worth it.

da1 -- what is your opinion on ozone generators