Beginner Gardening: Leggy plants, 0 by michaelangelo

michaelangelo wrote:
(Hopefully) I'm uploading three pics and would like opinions on if these plants would be considered leggy, and if so, if you think they will survive and bloom well. They are two different kinds of Dahlias (Victoriana and Collerette), planted from SEED but forced to be kept indoors in a sunny window for longer than they should have been due to weather here. I also wonder if cutting them back so early would kill or damage them and if that would make them bushier as with some herbs, for instance.

Pics 1 and 3 are victoriana; pic two is collarette, and it oes seem that it's all the Victorianna (I have 12) are the ones that are so much taller and thinner.

Please see the 2 following posts for the other two pics