How early can I start to flower? **help quick**!

I'm leaving to go somewhere december 20th. I started my plants on september 6th. they are all 8-9week flower time, so in order to have everything finished by me leaving i'll have to harvest near december 1st. Do you think its too early to start flowering the end of this week? (on sept 25 or 26) Three started from seeds, if you check out my journal you can see how far along I am. The last one is a clone which is easily ready to flower now.

Heres a link to my journal if you want to see pics to make a judgement: https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/367901-blue-mystic-bubblicious-slh-triple.html

thanks

you can flower whenever you want you just wont harvest as much as you would if you wait.

understood, thanks. i suppose i'd rather harvest SOMETHING in december then possibly ruin everything by not being around to harvest and cure... agreed?

i have no idea how much you will get in the end because of your setup, i will follow though. but yea, flower anytime, i let em get a foot in a scrog then flower unless im taking clones. are they still in the pre veg stage? they looked pretty new

no, they are vegging. if you check out the most recent pics on the journal you'll see.

some look fine to flower some i wouldnt. id at least wait til there at 8"

besides the yeild, what are the negatives to starting to flower now?

I'm just really worried about losing out on everything because it ends up taking too long and I leave before it finishes.

that's about it. less yield and less satisfaction in the end. '_'

your potency shouldn't be affected, if thats what you mean.

Ok. Thanks, maybe I will start them sooner. Is 2 weeks of veg way too short? If needed, I guess I can go to 3 weeks, but how much will that help my overall yield?

Some people have done 12/12 straight from seed with good results