Slow grow, help please.

So I started a few seedlings outside July 10th I realize its a little late but I'm not looking for a big harvest, first frost ain't till late October, only reason why I'm planting late is family issues and couldn't get them planted , but I planted them they're about 20 days or so old and not very big, about 6 or 7 inches and look nothing like most plants I've seen at this point, 7 kc brains kc 36 stand, I recently transplanted them to large 3 gallon containers I'm.thinking maybe they were root bound and therefore could not grow so.I'm hoping transplanting them will speed up the process, and thoughts I'm gonna upload pics later today.

I started one last year late July and got 10 grams off of it. Hope thats all your're expecting. If not, you might be a little disappointed. Good luck.

Yeah, my guess is they are starting to flower now. You get a growth spurt then it slows down and flowers.

Yeah I'm not expecting much that's why I just put 7 in to hopefully get a decent amount, but my question is how would they start to flower when there's still a 15/9 light cycle, 6 am light to about 9 pm, don't they need more dark to induce flowering

Yea, you would think they would.
Mine turn at about 13.5 to 14 hours of daylight.

Are they shaded from morning sun?