Have one plant flowering early - can this negatively affect the rest in any way?

I have one plant that is flowering too early. It just started this week. It is in an outdoor garden with many other plants still in veg.

1) Is there any way to return this plant to veg state? (topping?) It is still on the same nutrient (high N) and light (outdoors) regimen as the others.

2) If I can't stop this plant from flowering, does it need to be removed? Can it negatively affect the other plants in any way? (for example, by inducing them to flower early?)

thanks!

What do you mean by flowering? Do you mean actual buds starting to form at the tops or just flowers at the bases of the branches having pistils sticking out? That wouldn't be unusual. If it's actually budding then you have identified an early maturing individual and you should take a cutting from a lower branch to keep it for growing in other years as clones. Obviously, that plant flowering before the others has no negative effect on anything. You'll get some product earlier with that plant, that's all.

that is a good thing....

Thanks. Good to know that it won't induce the others to flower early!

Is there any way to put the plant back into veg state? I've heard you can pinch the tops?

Let her flower! Now you'll have an earlier batch to smoke while waiting on the others.

Old Fat Hippy

Sure you can go back to veg state by adjusting light hrs. Some keep plant mothers in Veg state for years. Why would you want that? Top the plant for multiple buds....Take some clones as it appears you have a good subject plant. You want early flowering so the process of growing speeds up rather then drags out. winner.....

why do u not want your plant to flower...its some smoke to hold u over untill your other plants are done =]

Relaxed said:

Sure you can go back to veg state by adjusting light hrs. Some keep plant mothers in Veg state for years. Why would you want that? Top the plant for multiple buds....Take some clones as it appears you have a good subject plant. You want early flowering so the process of growing speeds up rather then drags out. winner.....

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If you have 18+ light and plan to keep it light that for a while longer, top it. If you plan on swicthing to flower, then you should not top. It's jus preflowers or maybe hairs, wont hurt anything, actually you want to have that. Good sign

He said it was outdoors, so he can't just change the light cycle. He would have to interrupt the dark with a short burst of light in the middle of it to put it back into veg state. He would also have to make sure the light hit that full plant and no others, which would be practically impossible.

Topping will not force a plant back into vegetative growth, it just stops the vertical growth of the main stem. The only problem with a plant flowering early is that when the buds start forming they may block the light from reaching the other plants' buds that will develop later.