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It depends on your dominant hormone and how long you've been on it. If you're on E and continue to be on E you'll get most of the fat redistribution done by 2-4 years. If you're really skinny, you might not have obvious changes until you gain weight. Breast growth can take a long time, I've heard of sudden breast growth even with 10 years hrt.
For people that are unsatisfied with their fat redistribution, fat transfer surgery is an option for breast, hip, buttocks enlargement. Its usually about 10k USD for say a 2-3 cup size increase in the breasts, which is competitive with implants on the smaller side without needing to worry about silicone in your body. Plus side, if you gain weight, you get bigger boobs. You can take fat from wherever you don't like it being.
According to surgeons, silicone must be replaced every ten years and can have some pretty bad side effects.
From what I've seen of fat transfer surgeries, they also tend not to scar much, they redistribute the fat by sucking it out with needles.