9 nine leaves! mature

Hey everybody hows it going. Im new to this org and I think its great. I have bag seed plant growing, and its about 1' tall. The top leaves of my plant have nine leaves, does this mean my plant is mature?

No.

And if by mature you mean ready to be switched to the flowering light cycle (12 hours on , 12 hours OFF- NO light) probably not at 1 ft.

Alot of people say alternating branch nodes (google it), showing preflowers (ditto), unless you Sea of Green (take a guess); those guys/gals don't seem to care what people say

non-alternating/alternating nodes:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://rollitup.org/userpix/26_Non_Alternating_1.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/726-when-flower.html&h=472&w=550&sz=19&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=blCdyqCau4DrgM:&tbnh=114&tbnw=133&prev=/images?q=alternating+marijuana+nodes&gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=en&safe=off&sa=G

It doesn't mean your plant is mature, but you can definitely switch to 12/12 for flowering.

Yeah Pseudonym, I am actually about 2 switch some plants over when they hit 8-9 inches (small area), I just figured with one plant, and it prob. being in soil, he wasn't aiming for a budsicle plant.

But yeah dude, you totally could switch it now. You won't get very much but the bud is not any lower quality. (From what i have heard)

thanks for the info!