Quote Originally Posted by Rusty Trichome
Sats in my garden take around 8 or 9 weeks for flower. I use a couple of 400w HPS's, tho, and I don't usually chop the plants during flower.
If that's from the onset of 12/12 to harvest, that's actually not too bad. I had a Swazi Skunk strain that took forever to mature... I can't remember exactly how long, but it was easily over 10 weeks. There were only three females, and they shared a 600w HPS for flowering. I kinda regretted letting them get so tall, because the flowers never got very dense... primarily the flowers on the main stem.

If you've ever trained a dominant sativa before, how well did it respond in flowering? Did it help them mature any quicker when they got uniform lighting to all the bud sites? I still have a few Swazi seeds, but don't plan on touching them until I can better understand the needs of sativas.