autoflowering seedling is starting to bud. Can I stop it?

[solianri6]

So I've got an autoflowering Critical Purple seed, that is still a seedling, but looks like it is starting to bud already. Am I screwed?

I posted about this particular plant before: https://forum.growweedeasy.com/foru...hat-s-wrong-with-my-little-guy-turning-yellow

She grew 2 inches, and then started turning yellow and stopped growing. I think the consensus was that I was over watering it, and giving it nutrients too early. So I put it in a bigger pot, cut down on the watering, and it finally started turning green and grew a little bit.

But now it looks like it's starting to bud. I had some issues with my light, the timer was wonky, so some days it would stay on all day, and some days it wouldn't turn on at all. (i've got a new timer now, so at least now I'm keeping it at a steady 20 hours). But I thought autoflowering seeds wouldn't be effected that much by changes in light?

Is there anything I can do to convince it to start growing again, instead of flowering?

 

[Cloud]

Sorry nothing you can do. Trash it and start over is only thing i can suggest.

 

[Canuck147]

You confused it with your transplant - it was probably okay with its first home - had her roots spread out, rready to grow vertically - then you transplanted and now she has to spread her roots again, when all she wanted to do was start growing pistils.
Nothing you can do to stop it - just work with what you got.

 

[quirk]

That's not a seedling, it's six weeks old. Go to tutorials, click on How to grow in 10 easy steps and everything is laid out in layman terms. KISS is my motto.