Should i switch to 12/12?

the plants are about 5 weeks in .... and there all 18-22 inch's tall first time grow and just wondering if now.... or how soon i should switch

andddd just by looking at them would anyone be able to tell me indica/sativa?... there relatively fat with really thick leaf veg but since it was a first grow they where just bag seeds

they are an indica and they tend to double in size sometimes triple when they are in 12/12 also what lighting u using and id play around with them remove wat is uneeded due to light penetration being very important at thsi stage and it look s abit crowded in there

deffinately a indica dominate strain,you can switch them right now if you wanted,i do 5 weeks veg and go into flower too

Ya I definitely grew beyond my means lol didn't realize how big they would get... But what do u mean by get rid of what isn't needed??? And ya going to transition them tonight into 12/12 =) about fucking time haha

he's talking about cutting the fan leaves that are in the way of the lower nodes,i would try to just tuck them first or you can cut them if you want to get better light penetration but i would give a little bit to heal before going in to 12/12

well what im waiting on ... not really hoping on but expecting is i used 100% bagged seeds there was no sexation of them... so im assuming that out of the 8 plants i have... that most likely with the percentage of chance applied being male/female....50/50 ... that if left to percentage chance 4 out of the 8 will be male... thus freeing up alot of room..i mean say there's 5 male... thennn even more free room... say there's 3 male... it'd still free up more then enough room for me to open the floor for more space/light... because this is the only place i have to grow them its a closet ... thats 3.5 ft/ 6 ft. perfect size... excellent little grow box... just didnt anticipate the size of the 5 gallon smart pots lol.. when i ever looked at them inside the closet i was like... fml... these fuckers are huge LOL and reading up on cutting big large shade leafs... being my first time.. im going to go with an article i read on cutting shade leaf's i'll post it

LET IT GROW.

don't cut, cutting the fan leaves off might create a metabolic imbalance.


"Removing large amounts of leaves may interfere with the metabolic balance of the plant. If this metabolic change occurs too late in the season it could interfere with floral development and delay maturation. If any floral inhibitors are removed, the intended effect of accelerating flowering will probably be counteracted by metabolic upset in the plant. Removal of shade leaves does facilitate more light reaching the center of the plant, but if there is not enough food energy produced in the leaves, the small internal floral clusters will probably not grow any larger. Leaf removal may also cause sex reversal resulting from a metabolic change."

marijuana botany chapter 2.

its all a matta of opinion im not saying go wile and cut everything lol jus cut wot needs to be cut

Lol ya I understand I'm just going to wait til I can definitly sex the plants to worry about shade leafs because once I get the dudes out I'm sure the amout of light reflection in the room will grow signifigantly because more of the reflective plasic will be visible thus making more light bounce around

if you remove the fan leaves do it in veg, there is a better chance it will affect ur plants if you cut them in flower