Resuscitate more or flower?

Okay so these are my first two grows.
They've been through a lot and for a point I even stopped watching after them. Since they've been dried and burned so much from lack of water and close contact to light I just decided to pluck out or trim off any parts that were dried or really yellow. The first grow on the left is deficient of course but I decided to fill up the top with about 2 more inches of oceans forest and have that as it's food. This is the maximum height these plants can grow. The options are to keep them alive and take better care and maybe buy a small pack of nutrients or just switch to flower and start fresh with good quality seeds as well.

I am a bit concerned to actually smoke the buds because of quality but if I continue to let them flower and add nutrients can I restore the herbs to top shape?

Just my opinion.

Let them recover for a couple of weeks before flipping, a strong healthy plant is always best. When a plant is in flower it's in reproduction mode, not recovery.

Good luck

If that is your max height then you have a problem as they will get 2-3x as large once you flip to 12-12...

resuscitate more

Give a few more weeks or just put in flower now. The extra few weeks of veg will not really matter - Remember use veg nutrients in the 1st week of 12/12

if the extra few weeks wont matter, why waste an extra few weeks?