Are these ready?

HI this is my first time grow and my plants are starting to look nice n bushy. The one on the left is 13" one in the middle is 9" and the one on the right is 9.5" not sure what the lil ones doing but it's had alot of root damage through out its grow I don't think it'll make it. My question is do you think the other three are ready to go onto 12/12 or should I let em veg a lil longer? I have a 600w mh and a hps waiting for the flowering period.

Depends on how much room you have to grow ....
Some strains double or even triple in size when flowering.
As long as you have enough vertical height ( allowing enough space above canopy ) for your lights .

You can do a little cropping or LST and slight defoliage on them to " open " up plant to more available light .... Look at your pic and SEE the dark shadowy areas. Then allow some time for plant to recover then flip. By " shaping " plants you can get a more even canopy and better plant harvest.

MY 2 cents .... Plants looking pretty good so far !

Budzbuddha said:

Depends on how much room you have to grow ....
Some strains double or even triple in size when flowering.
As long as you have enough vertical height ( allowing enough space above canopy ) for your lights .

You can do a little cropping or LST and slight defoliage on them to " open " up plant to more available light .... Look at your pic and SEE the dark shadowy areas. Then allow some time for plant to recover then flip. By " shaping " plants you can get a more even canopy and better plant harvest.

MY 2 cents .... Plants looking pretty good so far !

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Thanks for the tips, I have been defoliaging you should have seen them before haha, and I got around 3 feet of vertical space left and I can raise my light one more foot if needed.

if you have the space then i would wait but you did not top them so they will only have a few bud sites and from my experience i would put them into 12/12 now you will not pull much more because its not topped . light wont penetrate more then a foot or so your growing style so wait or do it now no difference same yield . smaller plants easier to work with if your new . my opinion .

bryan oconner said:

if you have the space then i would wait but you did not top them so they will only have a few bud sites and from my experience i would put them into 12/12 now you will not pull much more because its not topped . light wont penetrate more then a foot or so your growing style so wait or do it now no difference same yield . smaller plants easier to work with if your new . my opinion .

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I have topped/pinched them all. there already starting there new colas

hard to see that in the first pic . it looked like one single branch . as stated above good advice they often stretch 2 or 3 times the size .