Time to flower or wait? Suggestions..

I started my first indoor grow a month ago, and would like some advice/suggestions as to what i should do.. I am trying to decide when i should flower my babies..

Originally used MG soil... have since repotted w/ FFOF and using Fox Farms Grow Big..

Plants are 4 weeks old (grown for 2 weeks under flouresents, then switched to hps)

4 plants are right about a foot tall as of yesterday.. 2 are a bit shorter, unfortunantly stunted very badly from the MG nute burn...

Now in 3 gallon pots...

250 watt hps with 18/6 lighting schedule..

Closet is lined w/ mylar wrapping paper.. local hydro shops didn't have mylar rolls at the time... don't intend to buy supplies online at all..

light is kept 12-16 inches away from plants

Temperature in room is between 72-78 degrees w/ humidity on average about 50%...

2 fans inside closet.. intake and exhaust VIA duct fans... both 6 inches... no carbon filter installed yet, but will be looking into it in the near future...

Watering about every 3-5 days.. have fed plants two feeding w/ Grow Big (1/2 teaspon per gallon of water)

I have 5 ft to work with.. So the plants could get around 4 ft tall, leaving around a foot between the top of the plants and the light... I know they can double or triple in size once they go into flowering... They have anywhere from 6 to 8 nodes, with the top nodes producing 7-9 blades...

At 2 ft, if they tripled in size, i would run into some problems... lol... This is my first indoor grow as mentioned before, and i'm not using any topping, fimmin, scrog, etc.. techniques this time around.. I want to go through the growing process indoors once before trying any of those, but i will be utilizing them in the future..

Should I flower, or wait another week?

first two pics are from yesterday, last pic is from a few days prior... camera phone pics suck, but it's all i got right now..

any advice/suggestions appreciated..

IMO opinion it is actually up to you...You could easily wait another week no worries and be ok...Happy Growing!

you have a 5 foot closet, there in a 1 foot pot, so they have around 4~ feet of growing room. thus you flower them when they are 1 foot (12 inch's) tall, if they tripple in size they will almost touch the light, if they only double you will have a nice comfterble grow space.

easy answer: flower your seedlings when they are 1 foot tall. keep the light close to prevent streching.

TheDifferenceX said:

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Originally used MG soil... have since repotted w/ FFOF and using Fox Farms Grow Big..

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You will be very glad you did this. Everything else sounds like you are on a promising road. I also agree with Corbat.

thx for the advice everyone...

Any suggestions on how long I should leave lights off before flowering?

I don't think I wan't to do a 36 hour darkness... trying to decide between just 12 hours of dark or 24 hours..........

up to you bro, i just switched them from 24/0 to 12/12, they didn't seem to mind but I guess the extra darkness kinda slingshots them into flowering? But so does adding flowering blooms a week prior to putting them in 12/12.. Yet to do either but I am going to add bl;oom nutes before flowering this time around.

look good man. mine are 2 weeks old an i think im gonna do the same thing flower at 1 foot or a little less.