Pat me on the back first. After smoking tobacco for over 60 years I am to day 40 days a quitter. Old Vietnam vet , age75 , hanging on to the day when I first got high in 1969. It was Cambodian Red one week after I arrived in VietNam. OMG I love my weed. I smoke to blow my brains out and also most important for the medicinal effect for old age issues. I am a farmboy born and bred, and know my stuff when it comes to soil health. Currently growing outdoors and in the ground of an old feedlot barn lot, which had animals for over a century tromping and fertilizing all over it. It has a very high population of night crawler worms and so, nature works for me. Anyway a friend gave me what he said was White Widow feminized. Well here it is last of May and the plants (5) are all in pre flower stage. 3-4 ft tall. They are also emitting that intoxicating aroma which I dearly love to breath in. So who has idea why they are maturing so fast. I planted them at same time I usually start tomato seed which was this past mid April. I assumed they were a full season plant but maybe not. Get it raised and yes indeed it MUST be cured correctly and it takes a while. You have to have patience with the whole process.