Wow thanks dude this really clears up a lot for me. I have another question though, at what point when the preflowers begin to appear do you actually consider it to be fully flowering? It would helpful to know because I wanna keep track of exactly how many weeks they're into flowering so I can really guarantee a peaked harvest. I know you have to check for trichome maturity too, I'm gonna be watching out for that as well.

By the way this is my first time having plants that are actually going into flower and are females. Last year I only had one plant and it was a male but I didn't know until mid august and it was already 6 feet by that time. I've started some other plants successfully but all those were stolen/killed by weather eventually.