Early Flowering Question?

Due To money issues, I have 2 months before I have to move. I have a fairly large plant growing outside in the open. I wanted to make sure to get some buds from the plant so I started tarping over it to induce flowering. I only had to take out about an hour of sunlight for roughly a week before it started.
I have been tarping it everyday at the same time for about 3 1/2 weeks since.
My question is, if I were to stop tarping it about a month into flowering will it go back into the vegitative stage or what will happen?
Any input would be awesome.
The pic is the plant about 4 feet tall before it started budding.

With this time of year it shoudl be fine. Because the nights are long. However, this depends on where you live also because how many hours of daylight are there where you live right now?

I live in southern California, Riverside, desert
Ill have to check tonight to be positive about the times but about a month ago it was getting pitchblack at about 8:00pm. I started tarping the last few days of aug at 6:30pm and untarping as soon as it got dark, the sun would come up at 5:40am. the time still seems close to that.

souuld be fine