Those doses are too high for a first cycle, he doesnt know if he is gyno prone or anything and taking 35 mg d-bol ED could cause problems(unless he has an anti-e on hand), but he would grow fine off 25-30 mgs so why take the higher dose. As for the deca I know plenty of people who have taken 200 mg on their first cycle, and that is a little on the low side so I would bump that up to 300 mg if you have enough(dont cut your cycle short though), but there is no need to go any higher. With a 500 mg/wk test for 10 wks, 300 mg/wk deca for 10 wks and 25-30 mg dbol ED for first 4 weeks your probably going to gain in excess of 20 lbs, and be able to hold on to most of that because you should lose most(if not all) of the dbol bloat before the cycle is over(but you will hold some water from the sus). To answer your original question the dbols kick in within a couple days, should see a weight/strength change by the end of week 1, the sus has a few different esters in it, and so within the first week or two you will see some gains, and then at about week 3 is when you will start seeing some serious ones because that is when the deca kicks in also(but just because it kicks in at week 3 doesnt mean its too drastic, around week 5 is when you see drastic changes in yourself).