well by spending almost no time in veg, and 9 weeks in flower, your missing out on the huge amounts of growth that just one or two weeks of veg would add to a plant
The purpose of the first flower is not for yield, per se, its more for getting the cross of the strains that i want and have that small plant produce seeds only. I am not looking for any smokable product out of the first run. If i were to flower these for longer i would get a crap load of seeds and i dont want that, i only want a few seeds that i can then grow out and select the strongest of that group and then cross them. This is all part of making a stable strain. The more you can cross it back the more the genetics will be solid. Alot of people have actually produced seeds, but they think they are bad. In a sense seeds are bad for those who only want the smokable product.

Thanks everyone who has been posting, this is going to be alot of fun, and i will be posting alot of eye candy during the process.