How to stop plant from flowering

Hi guys!

I'm a first timer here, awesome site by the way!

I am wondering if I can stop the plant from flowering, or better yet, how to delay it from flowering. From gardening perspective, I would expect if I trim the buds the plant will postpone the flowering stage and grow more, is this valid for marijuana plant as well???

This is what happened, I got into experimenting growing my first plant without much investment. I got the seed started and planted it in dirt. Okay so far. Then, due to a lack of constant sun light the plant has been growing slowly. It's been over 2 months and it's a little over 2 feet tall. Yeah, i know...
I had a watering system setup due to traveling issues and was gone for 4 weeks. I got back today and I see that the plant was thirsty and started flowering.

Can I still save from early flowering?

change the lighting to 18 hours on and 4 hours off and it'll go back to vegitation stage. They only flower if they get or get less than 12 hours of light

They do show sex if they are mature in vegitation, maybe that is what you're seeing

umagrama said:

Then, due to a lack of constant sun light the plant has been growing slowly. It's been over 2 months and it's a little over 2 feet tall.

Can I still save from early flowering?

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Outside, guys. Outside. Look for key words.

If you're outside, you're pretty much left to the mercy of mother nature. Unless you want to set up a generator and some CFL's, but that's just not practical.

If youre growing in shade then move it to get the most sunlight, otherwise dig it up and transplant it indoors and give her at least 18 hours of light. it will take 1-2 weeks for it to revert back to vegetative growth, then flower when youre ready by reducing the light cycle to 12/12.

its time to flower outside so just let it do its thing! trimming buds back now will only hurt your yield in my experience. once they start to flower it takes a week or two to turn them back around to veg and vice versa. the earlier they start to flower just meens more time to get mature all the way just watch out for mold in the late stages.

Thanks for all the response guys! This was an awesome experience, I just learned a bunch from you!

I gave it water today and the plant should be feeling better already. I am gonna give it lots of sunlight and hope it will grow some more. Like I said, I am experiencing with it so that I can learn from this and do a better job next time. I am down in Brazil and there is lots of sunlight here (but my house is small and there is not one spot that gets a full day worth of sunlight). Initially I wanted to do it indoors but all the lights I could find were for 220 volts and my house only gets 110 volts.

By the way, I just got back from Redding and seen the most amazing "stuff" there! Keep the good work all of you!

I was thinking that because of the lack of water the plant was trying to reproduce before dying of thirst asap. But now I understand that it's just it's time due to lack of full sun light.

Could I clone it and start it all over? I only got this plant, no more seeds and it came from somewhere special. I'd hate to loose this chance!

ya you can take a couple clones and put them under lights indoors but you have to give them 18 hrs or more of light to keep them vegging. good luck and happy farming