Early season mistake causes early flowering, any path back to veg?

[radrichie61]

So as I’ve already mentioned in the past I made mistakes in my nursery early in the season which caused my plants to early flower when it went outside where daylight hours were much shorter and in just a few weeks we’re flowering. I have utilized some vegetative nutrients from roots organics hoping that perhaps that would do something but of course that was just a shot in the dark, light is the key. Does anyone have any ideas to get these gals back into veg? I realize it’s probably not but you don’t know until you ask and thanks for everything. Hey, seems some people suggest leaving a light on 24 hours for a week and that could help kick them back in to veg. Sounds weird to me…

Or, would you treat them nutrient wise with flowering nutes, or do nothing?

 

[GoldenDragondnw]

Can you get them back on a longer light cycle? Idk tbh I let mine just flower after stressing into early without veg for my clone. Lol its probably not suggest3d what I did.

 

[radrichie61]

Can you get them back on a longer light cycle? Idk tbh I let mine just flower after stressing into early without veg for my clone. Lol its probably not suggest3d what I did.

Outdoor plants.

 

[yetanother]

So as I’ve already mentioned in the past I made mistakes in my nursery early in the season which caused my plants to early flower when it went outside where daylight hours were much shorter and in just a few weeks we’re flowering. I have utilized some vegetative nutrients from roots organics hoping that perhaps that would do something but of course that was just a shot in the dark, light is the key. Does anyone have any ideas to get these gals back into veg? I realize it’s probably not but you don’t know until you ask and thanks for everything. Hey, seems some people suggest leaving a light on 24 hours for a week and that could help kick them back in to veg. Sounds weird to me…

Or, would you treat them nutrient wise with flowering nutes, or do nothing?

Yes, you will need to use artificial lighting. If you make sure the days are longer than the nights (or if you interrupt the night time with one hour of sufficiently strong artificial light, as in GLR) they will switch back to veg, and will stay there until the nights become once again longer than the days. But check the times of sunrise/sunset in your area to ensure you'll have a long enough short-day period for the plant to start and complete flowering when you want it to, otherwise you may need to use a tarp for the flowering phase...

 

[radrichie61]

Yes, you will need to use artificial lighting. If you make sure the days are longer than the nights (or if you interrupt the night time with one hour of sufficiently strong artificial light, as in GLR) they will switch back to veg, and will stay there until the nights become once again longer than the days. But check the times of sunrise/sunset in your area to ensure you'll have a long enough short-day period for the plant to start and complete flowering when you want it to, otherwise you may need to use a tarp for the flowering phase...

Well, went by today and maybe some signs of revel. Very slight, thoughts?

 

[DJK12]

Definitely possible, I was curious to look it up since the same happened to my two outdoor but they are about 3 feet high so ill just let em ride it out. I've seen some friends accidentally go back into re-veg without taking the buds off and it rendered them useless if I remember right.

 

[yetanother]

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Typically the first signs of re-vegging are 1- to 3-pointed smooth leaves (without the characteristic dents along the edges). I don't see that in the pics, but if it's getting more than 12 hours of light, rest assured they will begin to show up soon enough, and after a couple of weeks you'll notice the buds shrinking, and eventually nearly disappearing.

 

[Harpua88]

DJK12 got it right, it's best to remove the buds (within reason, don't butcher the plant), and old growth, but leave as many leaves as possible, as well as new shoots.

I've deliberately re-vegged and re-flowered and always had success getting a 2nd harvest, but that's indoors. Either way you have to reasonably strip the plant down and let it re-veg, even if it's outdoors, see if you can add at least 3-4 hours of light either before sunrise or after sunset (or both) to further stimulate growth.

 

[radrichie61]

DJK12 got it right, it's best to remove the buds (within reason, don't butcher the plant), and old growth, but leave as many leaves as possible, as well as new shoots.

I've deliberately re-vegged and re-flowered and always had success getting a 2nd harvest, but that's indoors. Either way you have to reasonably strip the plant down and let it re-veg, even if it's outdoors, see if you can add at least 3-4 hours of light either before sunrise or after sunset (or both) to further stimulate growth.

I was thinking about trying that. Removing buds.

 

[F.Dupp]

A couple of those are deep into flower. If I were you I would germinate more seeds to replace those plants immediately. We're still early in the growing season. In the long run, new plants should outperform the very confused plants that you currently have. Those are gonna take some time to get back to a vegetative state, and they're gonna be all sorts of fucked up along the way.

 

[F.Dupp]

I just put some seedlings out yesterday. But I'm in MN. It could snow tomorrow for all I know.

 

[BudgetGrower]

Looks good to me, could take 3-4 weeks for the normal growth to start, the plant likely to turn out massive, you don't need to train the plant but you will need to fin her out 4-5 weeks time, just done mine(small one indoors).

 

[BudgetGrower]

I was thinking about trying that. Removing buds.

I would leave every bud, each bud could turn into 3-6 main shoots all from that bud site, looks really cool

 

[BudgetGrower]

Will there be enough time to fully reveg before the daylight hours drop below 14 or you may need to add lights outside.

 

[DJK12]

I would leave every bud, each bud could turn into 3-6 main shoots all from that bud site, looks really cool

That's fricken awesome actually. I've seen pics of that happening, but didn't know it produces shoots like that! Weed never ceases to amaze me

 

[Harpua88]

I was thinking about trying that. Removing buds.

Most of the advice you'll read involves removing the flowers, as well as the upper branches, leaving leaves and only the smallest lower buds. Also, give it a good dose of nitrogen. These are things that help to signal re-growth. This, and hitting it with extra hours of light. If you can make it a decent grow-light, bulb......even better.

 

[BudgetGrower]

I have taking clones off a flowering plants and reveg the whole plant , cut the bud in half to reduce the chance of bud root, but the op plants are well on there way to reveg, buds have opened up and the risk of bud root has passed, indoors you would trim the buds back because the shoots will grow in all directions but outside, who cares, the wider the plant they higher the crop.

 

[GNick55]

it would probably be faster to start/plant new seeds..
or get clones from somewhere..

 

[Oldchucky]

I think they are out in the bushes. So no adding light. Just have to see what happens. And maybe start some new ones. I I put some out in solos last year way too early and they started flowering. They didn’t get a chance to revege! I lost it and murder them all on the spot! And started some new ones and came out all right.

 

[radrichie61]

Typically the first signs of re-vegging are 1- to 3-pointed smooth leaves (without the characteristic dents along the edges). I don't see that in the pics, but if it's getting more than 12 hours of light, rest assured they will begin to show up soon enough, and after a couple of weeks you'll notice the buds shrinking, and eventually nearly disappearing.

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