will significant darkness force budding faster?

im doing research for my college botany class im doing a project on marijuana growth.
Will putting a mj plant in darkness for say 2-3 days force budding? or will it just kill the plant from too much darkness?

Hermie gets my vote.

what if there's already signs of female sex?

Showing sex doesn't change anything. The plant was already a female or male since seed, and just developed enough to show it.

Messing with photoperiods generally stresses the plant, which may influence a female to produce some male parts.

Light in the dark period is worse than dark in the light period.

thank you very much, your info might get me an A, are there anyways to enduce budding faster?

Well I can tell you right now that you leave the plant in darkness for a few days the plant turns bright bright green where new growth should occur before the plant starts looking like it wants to die.

will longer than 12 hours of darkness affect it growth?