Captain they vegged officially 10 weeks. But they spent 4 weeks in peat pots as tiny seedlings, shocked (and killed) by my blunder of putting the seedling tray in my outdoor greenhouse. The temp in the greenhouse read 120F when I checked on them in the afternoon. Most of them died. Eight survived. Of those eight, five were female. Four of them are in the group budding, the other is a mutant that I don't know what to do with. Anyway, the answer si that their early lives were stunted, but their main veg stage was 9-10 weeks.