Wtf---early Flowers?

so this is my first grow. and i see what i can only assume are flowers, with two hairs coming out. i've been on 24 hour light the whole time. however, the 250w MH i was using freaked out(under waranty) and the hydro store lent me a set of T5 floros while mine gets repaired. it's it's been about a week and a half under floros and it's started flowering. i know the pic isn't very close up but you can see the hairs dead center. there are about 5 of these structures on the plant, all near the top
i guess my question is why and is it bad, could it go hemaphro when i put it back under the 250 MH? Is it way stressed from my shitty rookie growing ability???
FYI there are two plants in the same grow area and the second shows no signs of flowering

Are they both the same strain?

Yea I can see the 2 hairs

Very strange

Must be an auto flowering strain

Or somehow you created somthing crazy lol

Peace
-Tek

it might be a hermi look at the balls at the next node up.

Hey at least you got a female!

I had a plant start flowering after 24 hrs of weird lighting (switched from MH to HPS + 12 hrs of darkness).

The plant looks big enough to start flowering anyways, so yeah you should just flower her.
But if you wanted to keep vegging, I beleive you can just stick to 24/7 cycle and she will revert (or "devert" as it were) to veg mode.

You should be OK. Most of my cuttings autoflower under the two 20 watt fluros I root them under. They'll pull out of it once back under the HPS.

Vi

Lots of weed throws out indicator flowers when they get a little older, I don't consider that plant to be flowering, as in budding.
Just indicating.

Let it be. It gave you a hint, anyways.

24 hours light is pointless and studies on this board have shown 16 hours light 8dark is best for our plants. And I agree with the post above its not flowering but preflowers a sign the plant is maturing and probly ready to flower

Preflowers, as opposed to full blown flowers, generally appear after the fourth week of vegetative growth from seed. Check carefully above the fourth node. Please note that preflowers are very small and impossible to differentiate without magnification. A photographer's 10x loupe is handy indeed when examining preflowers.

As the images below demonstrate, the female preflower is pear shaped and produces a pair of pistils. Frequently, the female preflowers do not show pistils until well after the preflowers have emerged. Thus, don't yank a plant because it has no pistils.Pistillate preflowers are located at the node between the stipule and emerging branch.

Female (pistillate)



Female (pistillate)


Image courtesy of Uncle Ben

The male preflower and flower may be described as a "ball on a stick." Frequently, a male plant will develop mature staminate flowers after prolonged periods of vegetative growth. These appear in clusters around the nodes.

The following image shows a male plant in early flowering. Staminate flowers are located at the node between
the stipule and emerging branch. Note the clusters of flowers.

Male (staminate)


The image below shows a male pre flower after 24 days of 18/6.

Image contributed by: surfed

Nice thorough post Major Toke....

Xenu... you win. indicator flower. My current grow has a hermie.. Grrr... found that in week 5 of flower.. barely any male flowers so I'll just leave it in the room... damage is already done.

Your picture doesn't look hermie.. (but I'm not inspecting the actual plant.) Your picture is also not an auto flowering strain ... like my first grow was.. that was wierd. there were actually flower... not a little pre-flower bud. Suspect crossed with ruderalis strain.... ... it was okay but not very potent.

Your picture looks normal to what I've seen in my garden... flower it before it gets too big... like I did. you can run out of room fast.

how long has she been growing.