Time to transplant? pics and questions

Hi guys, are my plants looking ready to transplant or should I wait until they grow another set of leaves? I'm thinking of using 2 liter pots with 20% perlite 80% organic soil (with time release ferts). I'm planning to keep them in those pots all through and not start adding nutes until they're at least a week into flowering because of the nutes already in my soil. Can anybody see any problems I'll run into doing that? Thank you.

I would go ahead and transplant. They look strong and the bigger pot will let them grow faster. And I use 2 gallon pots and that makes a good size plant. If you want like a 3-4 foot plant I would go with at least a 2-3 gallon pot. a 2 litre pot will get root bound

Get better lights if you want finish this plant/ go ahead and transplant.

oh yea you need more lights. there are good threads on here about lights, but get at least 4 more cfls for veg, and you need some 2 400w hps for flower or something, i'm no pro, just on first grow

Thanks, more lights are on their way but I'm sticking with CFLs for the whole grow due to power usage and heat concerns. I've decided to go with 2 gallon pots and hope I can LST the height out of them, as getting root bound would be difficult to deal with for a novice like me. I'm only veging for a few weeks (following that Buds For Less book a member on here published).

Here's the thing: I'm going to try and vege the plants under 150 watt of 6500k CFL and 60 watt of 2700k, then add heaps more lights for flowering stage. There are 9 plants here but many will be pulled once they show their sex. Will that amount of light vege 9 plants enough to get them ready to flower? I don't really want to buy heaps more 6500k lights because they get pretty pricey in my country in bulk. Any experience would be appreciated. Thanks.

Also, I'm a bit worried about the time release fertilizer in my soil... Will waiting until a bit into flowering before I start adding nutes keep the plants happy? Sorry if that's too much of a vague question, my potting mix is organic and says it contains NuFert which is a time release organic fertilizer. I could dilute it with seed raising soil as well as the perlite if anybody thinks that would be better?

How am I looking? That was some hard shit but I've got a good method to move the lights up and down easier now. Ran out of pots so 2 of the plants are in significantly smaller containers, but I'll test it out. Cheers for any feedback.

ive seen lots of people use that time released fert and no extra nutes through a whole grow.

They look much happier now that you transplanted. Good luck.

nice little settup you have going on. dont worry about nutes for a while. they will show you when they need to be fed. feed before that and youll invite problems to your garden. i think space is going to be your biggest concern. plan your garden, its kind of hard to tell from the pics but that seems like a small space for even half that amount of teen/adult plants. looking good so far. keep it simple. goodluck