Some general questions and pics of my first legitimate(?) grow

Hey whats up,

Back-story:

I've only grown twice in past. First I vegged and flowered a bag seed under a single CFL in my closet. It actually yielded a small jar's worth to my surprise of some pretty good stuff. But it was as noob as you can get.. Basically just water and a shitty light lol.

Second time I grew I tried to do 16 plants simultaneously with a roommate, but cops showed up outside our place one day and like 3 cars in the parking lot and kept seein suspicious shit over weeks before that so we panicked and grinded em all up and flushed em down the toilet in like 10 minutes lol.. was a sad day. They looked good too.

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So now this my third and hopefully more professional grow. Due to lack of money, I germinated 10 bag seeds, started them under a CFL and moved them up into 2.5 gallon pots and put em under my MH. One didn't survive the xplant, so I'm down to 9 now but they look healthy for the most part. Today is day 35 of the grow. I went and got a second job specifically so I could afford to do this right so I really don't want to fuck it up. Would appreciate any and all feedback.... unless it's something like "yo bro ur grow sucks cawk".... I know... I'm doin the best I can w/ what I got

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Okay so right now my biggest questions are:

1. When should I flower? I'm at 5 weeks... 3-4 of them look big enough to flower, but the rest look a little on the small time so im a little hesitant.

2. I included pics below of them all, including one close up of a..node?... whatever u call the part where leaves sprout out from the stem and the gender shows (sry). I think this is a herm plant cuz it appears to have both ?genitalia?, can u confirm for me? I've heard that bag seeds are generally herm plants and u cant flower herms.. Really hope at least 3-4 of these are female lol.

3. How necessary is transplanting? If I flower soon following the rule that they will double in size im lookin at plants around the height of 3-3.5' probably.. Since I have 2.5 gallon pots would that really be necessary?

Any other comments u got or advice is appreciated. Thanks again. Here are the pictures:

The three thumbnails were taken before after I didnt water for 2.5 days but they are perky again now.

Start flowering now.

What size are the pots you have them in? 3G?

either 2g or 2.5g

It woulda been better to have them in at least 3G, but I'm pretty sure for the plants sake it's too late to transplant. Don't quote me on that though.

You can flower anytime, I sometimes flower after 3 wks veg, as you said it all depends how big you can grow in your space.

Okay thanks guys, maybe I'll start flowering this weekend then..They are all bag seeds anyways and I think a couple are herms/males so by the end if im lucky I'll have at least 4-5 females. And then at least ill have a momma plant.. After I get my set up solid I am gonna try to order some feminized seeds and try out some crazy strains. Until then I guess this will be a good learning experience to get some errors out of the way on a trial batch. Got a paycheck tomorrow so can actually buy supplies to buy a nice set up.. Gonna use a pallet as the base, and buy 4 thin plywood boards.. Then I'm gonna put hinges on them so they all stay up like walls around it... staple mylar to the inner walls and cut 2 circular holes in it for air intake/outtake. I'll take some pictures of the final set up. Gonna make it so one side can swing open like a door and if I wanted to be able to fold all the walls down flat onto the top of the pallet to make it more portal/easy to take down.

Good thinking on starting with bag seed. Wish I would have been that wise.

Well, as much as I'd like to pretend it was my brilliant idea it was more of an accident... I planted 10 plants thinking "this is gonna be awesome Im gonna flower 10 plants!"... lol... then it hit me oh wait, no thats not gonna happen since they arent feminized lol.. Eventually I wanna run a veg room in one area, and then have my grow area down in the basement to keep the smell down, and have it inside a relatively air tight room with good ventiliation to be safe... I want to be constantly rotating 8-9 plants thru the flower room, and while im flowering have 8-9 in veg so I dont gotta wait 3 months for every harvest. We'll see, hopefully it all works out.