help, color Q and transplant!!

[TheHemperor4:19]

god... i just made a super detailed post that got "lost" haha... man... alright so i'm going to sum this up fast, its a 2 part question.
2 plants, 2 females, Northern Lights X Sour... something, the seed packs downstairs, 400w hps, only 2 survivors of 5 seeds, fem seeds, foxfarm growbig nutes since about week 2-3. minor nute damage, however large over feeding of nutes they're survivors, haha.


1) Some of the side branch stems, not the main stalk, are starting to turn red... small red speckles, giving them a red/purpleish hue... no buds, no leaf color, just the stems. Plants are still on 24/7, going to switch to 12/12 on oct 1st. Pistils are starting to show and a light, sweet, stanky armora is starting to develop.

WHATS UP WITH THE RED?!

2) The 2 survivors, are planted in soil, in 3.5-4.25 gallon pots, size is unknown, were originally 5 gallon and i had to cut them. They appear to be 2 diff phenotypes, one is a lot taller, probaly 12-13'', and not real "lanky" but more so compared to the other plant.. its probaly 8.25-MAYBE MAYBE 9'' and a lot more compact/bushy.

PROBLEM: Small pots, the soil line i noticed today is a lot lower, so it looks like they're maybe in 3 gallons of soil total, their growth has slowed alot in the last 4-6 days... i topped them YESTERDAY, but they've been slow before that.

QUESTION: Should i get some 5-7 gallon pots, and make sure the soil is FILLED and transplant them into the bigger pots? They'd have a good 5-7 days to recuperate and flush out before the 1st of october.

but i dont want to stress them too much before i start flowering... these can't go hermie, but they NEED to have a BOMB yield, as i was hoping to have ATLEAST 4 out of 5.... maybe 3.... but im left with 2....

[wootas]

I'm also about to repot a very large 4 month+ old mother about 2 weeks before I flower it, so any thoughts would be interesting..

[TheHemperor4:19]

great.... well nvm with the help yall, not like anyone answered, but SWEET, im about 99% sure i just fucking killed the short bushy one by trying to transplant it.... easily took out 75-85% of the root system..... i feel like such fucking shit right now...

job search is going to shit, i was counting SO HEAVILY on this first grow... and it's going to absolute shit, and i fucking wasted some serious $$ on some beans.... ARGGGG i just wanna fucking die....

1 plant.... 1 fucking plant left.... its not even worth the risk to grow 1 plant.... but i know i dont have the heart to rip it down.... but god damnit....

yall don't know how bad i needed this harvest.... started with 5, ended up with 1... ARGGG....

i
want
to
die...


<sigh> thanks for letting me rant yall.... to the one dude that did post in this forum, from my expierence, dont even fucking try to transplant a plant that big....