thanks torog/ jadeius/project eight
yeah i can understand ya thinking that leaving them a little longer in veg will give ya more yeald at the end of the day,...... these plants will give me about 1 to 1 1/2 onces of dry bud at finish,

by starting 12/12 now it will keep em fairly short around 3 ft without toping, thus not interfering with its growth speed, toping will slow the plant a little as it has got to recover from the toping process before it starts to generate additional side growth
if you grow commercialy and you have plenty of space then there is a good reason to top,
if like me you grow enough plants to keep ya going till the next grow finishes then i would not top, i much prefure the rock hard huge sticky as fuck soild colas i get on top, i still get a fair amount of smaller side buds, and they smoke just as nice, but to be honest theres nothing more rewarding than tokin my pain away on the tops of my ladys..........

..my pain is like a river of molten lava, my weed calms the river and builds me a bridge..

........... peace to you all ...............