Clones Outdoor Flowering Early

Hello , happy people .

First post , first question .
I'm growing 6 plants outdoor this season , all of them clones .
3 of them I picked up early February , 3 early April . All six are starting to flower , the 3 earlier ones started 4
weeks ago , the later ones started a week ago.
It seems early to me and was wondering if that's normal or are there ways to trick the plants to go back into veg.state ? I'm outdoor only , no artificial light source , so far I only used fish emulsion every 2 weeks , around 7 hours of direct sun , earth is 2/3 potting soil , 1/3 compost , a good amount of worm casting , one cup of bat guano and one cup of Dr.Earth veggie fertilizer mixed in .
It's my first experience with clones , last year I grew 2 plants from seeds and they started flowering mid July and finished mid October . I'm based in SoCal .
Maybe someone here can give me some insight what to expect , are they going to continue to grow , or do they go into full flowering mode ? Should I continue to feed them nitrogen or support the flowering stage with different ferts ? Or just relax and let it happen ?
 

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indcolts77

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Yea man that happened bc they're sexually mature clones going from 18+ hours of light to 12-13 hrs outside...I would try to get them more hours of light to force a reveg...you're going to lose about 3-4 weeks of growth tho while it transitions...not a good situation my friend but not all is lost
 

Tomiie18

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I wouldn't force the reveg, let them flower. ( second picture looks like nitrogen toxicity, very dark green leafs )
 

obijohn

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Yeah, aside from the fact clones are usually under 24 hour lights, you put them out way too early. I wouldn't go outside without supplemental lighting even now...I did last year and they all started flowering.

As said above, try to give them a few more hours of light, if you have T5's or anything. Then first of June you should be ok if they've stopped flowering.

Last year mine didn't start revegging until AFTER the summer solstice, and i put em out mid May and they started budding
 
Thank you for the replies ! Sounds like it's the best at this point to sit back and let nature take it's course ...
I'm still curious if there's a chance some of them will go back into a veg. state , or will they continue to flower and be done
by the end of July ? Also not sure if I should support them with some bloom nutes , lay off the fish emulsion , or not worry about
fertilising them all together at this point ? Maybe I should just sit next to them and play the bamboo flute ...

peace
 
Time to put the bamboo flute down and work on canopy management of the clones . 4 reverted to growing , one Afghani didn't make it and one Hero OG stayed stunted but produced a quart mason jar full of niceness . In the meantime , not knowing if my clones would revert to vegging , I started more from seeds around May 15th .
 

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