my babies are about two and a half months. I put them outside about mid may and now I have flowers already starting to grow. I didn’t put them out until the light cycle was more than 12 hours before putting them out. But I didn’t take into account the temperature. Because it was cold it fooled the plants into flowering thinking it’s almost fall. My question is will it go back into veg mode now that it’s warmer at night then it has been the last couple of weeks. And will I still yield a decent amount.
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Cold cannot trigger flowering. It’s not biologically possible. Only the lighting period can. Cannabis is capable of flowering with 14 hours a day of light (and often do.) 12 hours is used as a standard because it guarantees flowering for plant that might be more stubborn. How many hours of light per day at your location? Is it 14 or less?
Days will continue to get longer for only ~3 more weeks and then day-length will begin reducing again. It would take longer than that to reveg them. Your going to have to deal with what you’ve got. Yes, they will still produce.
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I’m in jersey and right now I’m getting 16 hrs. Of light a day. Sunrise is at 530 am sunset is at 820pm
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You might want to check to see if you’ve mistakenly gotten autos. Unless they were previously exposed to less than 14 per day, they shouldn’t be flowering.
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They might have sent me autos. By mistake. Wow that would be messed up.
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Are they from ILGM? Do you have the bag the seeds came in. You would be able to tell from the label code on the bag.
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@Papo17 if you are sure you did not order autos, this would ruin autos.
Maybe just do 1 or 2 plants if you are not sure. But I have done this a lot.
Anyway, when I have had spring flower creep up from a too early start, I found that cutting away the flower growth is helpful. It removes the flower hormones from the plant faster than it can flush them itself. Cut off all the buds.
Honestly, if those weren’t so tall I would say hack em back to the knee caps. I probably still would the plant most into flower. Ideally you notice the spring bud sooner on the smaller plants and intervene sooner. Also, as @MidwestGuy pointed out we are rapidly approaching the solstice. You are getting preciously short on time to pull this off.
The problem is, if those are photos, they will figure out on their own to reveg. But it usually takes 4-8 weeks to completely reveg. So you find your plant misses its outdoor (start flower) cues of the solstice and keeps on reveg thru July. Then is late to the bloom party starting in august and never gets decent buds. Just a big weird looking mess of a plant with half ripe buds at first frost. No beuno.
The root mass of those plants is large and developed. If you hacked them down to the knees those roots would force an explosion in top growth. We do this all the time to damaged fruit trees in fruit growing. It’s called forcing top growth.
Maybe show a closer up pic of the plant. Depending how extensive flowers are I would do a combo for your own data points.
-Hack the most along ones to the knees.
-hack away all flower buttons on the middle sized buds leaving the plant structure intact.
-leave the least along ones alone as a control
Don’t do this to autos.
This is probably the only bad thing about getting an early start. If they spring flower cut it out.
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I don’t grow out doors but do grow autos. And looking at yours. I would bet they are not autos. How long you were able to veg them to get to this point would give you an idea too. If they were autos, They would have all ready started to bush out by flower time. Especially for as tall as they are. My thoughts would be to bring them back indoors and run them on a 20/4 light for a week and see if that stops the flowering. I will tag @AfgVet and see what she thinks. She is pretty good with these things 
The plants look healthy though.
If you really want to see these bush out. I would try some of the BBP. That stuff does promote lateral branching and works great. One of the few additives I use.
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I think I do thank you I’m gonna check that out as soon as I get home from work and yes they are from ILGM
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Great. There will be label on the bag that identifies it. Post a pic of it here and we can sort it out for you.
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To be truthful at this point I’m all in. What ever happenes or how much I yield at the end of this will be a learning experience. I know next year I’m not popping any seeds until the first week in may that’s where I went wrong. . If I can still get a nice yield from them I’ll be grateful.
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