I believe when I started my search for "trip weed" back around 6 years ago is when I stopped caring about flowering times.
I used to only purchase seeds based on breeders harvest dates. Then after I got a whole big bunch of years under my belt, I realized that unless you are growing out a landrace sativa, or heavily sativa dominant plant such as hazes, thais, zamals, crosses of those etc, the date advertised on that pack of seeds honestly did not matter.
You might get a pack of northern lights and find phenos finishing in 7 weeks and some finishing in 9 weeks. You get yourself some Zamal or Thais and you might as well be expecting 14 to 20 weeks.....
Then, say if one is planning on growing out lets say "Stardawg" crosses you better bet your gonna be looking at 9 weeks plus if you are familiar with stardawg and know your strains. It is always a good idea to read into the history of the plant you plan to grow such as "Stardawg" which has a tendency to run 70 plus days.
But anyway what I was getting at was when I started my search for trip weed, I finally bit the bullet and grabbed a bunch of Ace Seeds gear. Malawis, Golden Tigers, Thais, pure hazes, Zamaldelica... Etc etc..
For the first time I ran a plant over 14 weeks. Took Zamaldelica to 18 and a half weeks and still could have went longer. But I have to say the yield made up for the lost time as I scored an astounding 5 ounces off the Zamaldelica in a 2 gallon container of some very potent psychedelic flower. Everyone thought she was laced. Everyone was having panic attacks and heart attacks like they had never experienced before trying to swallow the knot in their throat.
People paid well for her. Golden tiger the same. Malawi the same.
But after running those it kinda "seasoned" me and broke me in. I have since ran at least 9 grows consisting of those long flowering NLD plants. So these beans that Gu~ offer really is nothing to me on the flowering time issues.
I can't wait till we can get this grow off contest up and running. I am so ready for it!