I am not sure what you're referring to when you say "are these what I hope they are", I may be completely blind but I'm not seeing a whole lot in that picture.

As far as your deadline goes.. it realies heavily on your strain, as well as your personal preferrences. Flowering time could be anywhere from 8 weeks all the way up to 14 weeks without giving me anymore info. Drying typically takes about 5 days to a week and beyond that, curing is all up to you. Two weeks is a solid timeframe for curing, again thats personal preferrence, some people cure their bud or two months. The longer you cure it the better smell/flavor/smoke you're going to get, as long as you're curing it properly. However when needing to meet a deadline for something, its potentially ready for consumption right after the drying period.

Good luck, and maybe post some other pictures to give us a better indication of what you have going on. Or perhaps someone else can see something that I can't in your pic.