I started one of the plants from seed.< blue dream. it took about 10 days for the seed to sprout and begin to grow upright. I used the humidity dome until the little seedling just touches the top of the dome. once the dome came off though, she took off like a rocket! my other plant, however, <GSC. was actually already budding when I received it. it was only about 10 inches tall and had just one fat bud. I took it out of the soil pot and cleaned up the roots, trimmed off the bud, and put it in the aerogarden the same time as the seed. this past month I had been working on converting it back to vegg with great success!!!!!!!!!! they are now both the same hight and growin!!!!!! ill upload pics soon.