It's worth mentioning that this is the prime beard growing season right now. Beards (and all follicles) grow faster during summer months, but if you're starting from clean shaven, obviously you don't want to start growing a beard in early summer or it'll just get itchy. So if you're wanting to sport one over the winter, mid august and early september is really the time to start. If you wait until mid fall, you'll miss out on your best growing months. Not a problem if it comes in nicely anyway, but if it takes you a month just to get beyond the patchy phase, you're asking for trouble by leaving it too long.
Personally, I'm a bubbling crock-pot of dihydrotestosterone. A glorious beard is the consolation I get for being pretty-much bald in my mid-30s. And it's a beauty: mostly reddish brown, with blond flecks below the bottom lip, and a few distinguished-looking white hairs appearing.
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