Small bud

I have 5 females in a hydro system. I force flowered early to weed out the males, and then tried to get the females back in to a veg state. They refuse to go back and the bud is now small. how long after they are done budding before i can put them back into a flowering stage??

how long have you been trying to reveg? budding and flowering are the same thing...

surely this cant be done the light cycle will be messed up also the change in food wont help i wouldnt advice this bad idea.

They have been budding for about 5-6 weeks. I changed out the nutes to a grow nute and change the light spectrum to optimize growing but they did not go back into veg. (wasn't sure if that was even possible), I'm fine with letting them bud I can wait, I was just curious how long until i can get them to bud again. If anything they will get bigger, I will get some more lights and more bud ... hopefully.

You never want to alter the photo period for flowering, if you switch to 18/6 or 24/0 or anything longer than 12/12, you're hurting your plant, and hurting the flowering process.

If it's flowering, its always recommended to go with 12/12 to flower, especially when they're already flowering.