Early flowering: what did I do wrong? and some questions.

Hi guys,
I am a bit worried regarding my first grow ever. It's day 23 since my two babies sprouted, and 25 days since they germinated. They already show signs of flowering but they are still very small! First of all: let my explain the situation.
biggest plant: Green Gelato automatic from Royal Queen Seeds
smallest plant: Fat Banana from RQS.
sprouted from earth: 22 may.
Medium: 10L (2.6 gallons) of regular potting soil --> planning to add some more soil with perlite later on as there is some space left in the pots.
lightening: I keep the plants on my terrace when it's hot enough and in front of the window when it's too cold, when I'm not at my dorm (I'm a student so I am not always present at my dorm).
Nutrients: I treated the soil before planting the seeds with RQS easy boost mix designed for cannabis plants (it sais that it will keep the soil boosted for 10-12 weeks). link: https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/growing/334-easy-boost-organic-nutrition.html
That's all for now but I ordered vegging and blooming nutes as well so I will be feeding them some grow nutes from later on this week.
Training: the smallest one is untrained but with the biggest one I made the mistake of starting LST too soon. It turned out ok though.
Ok I guess that's all the info I can give.

So here are the questions that I have:
Is it normal for auto's to be showing signs of flowering at day 23? When I look at growjournals and yt videos it doesn't really seem so...
Secondly: Will I get any yield at all? Will it still grow and develop side branches? The small one hasn't even got any branches yet whilst the bigger on is developing them.
Thirdly: Should I keep training the biggest plant now that it is showing signs of flowering? Have these plants officially entered the flowering stage? :p
Forthly: should I start giving them flowering nutes? I personally feel like I should give them some veg nutes first.
last but not least: should I romove that one leaf my finger is pointing at in one of the pictures because it blocks the sun for the fresh leaves/branches?
and that's about it!

some notes:
-The weather has not been good here so far and espessialy the sun hasn't been much present in the past weeks.
-I had some trouble with bugs (markings are visible on pictures). This problem has been taken care of and the dammage is very limited.
-I am a total noob but I would like to learn from my mistakes for my future grows!
Any advice is appriciated!
Thanks in avance fellas

EDIT:
I forgot some of my most imortant questions!
I would love to keep my ladies outside when I'm not at my dorm as they would catch sun. But I'm scared to do so as the temerature sometimes drops to 12 degrees celcius (53.6F)(that is the minimum though). Anyone has any experience with it? would it harm my plants?

I know these are a lot of questions but any answer helps!
 

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Mrs. Weedstein

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Hi guys,
I am a bit worried regarding my first grow ever. It's day 23 since my two babies sprouted, and 25 days since they germinated. They already show signs of flowering but they are still very small! First of all: let my explain the situation.
biggest plant: Green Gelato automatic from Royal Queen Seeds
smallest plant: Fat Banana from RQS.
sprouted from earth: 22 may.
Medium: 10L (2.6 gallons) of regular potting soil --> planning to add some more soil with perlite later on as there is some space left in the pots.
lightening: I keep the plants on my terrace when it's hot enough and in front of the window when it's too cold, when I'm not at my dorm (I'm a student so I am not always present at my dorm).
Nutrients: I treated the soil before planting the seeds with RQS easy boost mix designed for cannabis plants (it sais that it will keep the soil boosted for 10-12 weeks). link: https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/growing/334-easy-boost-organic-nutrition.html
That's all for now but I ordered vegging and blooming nutes as well so I will be feeding them some grow nutes from later on this week.
Training: the smallest one is untrained but with the biggest one I made the mistake of starting LST too soon. It turned out ok though.
Ok I guess that's all the info I can give.

So here are the questions that I have:
Is it normal for auto's to be showing signs of flowering at day 23? When I look at growjournals and yt videos it doesn't really seem so...
Secondly: Will I get any yield at all? Will it still grow and develop side branches? The small one hasn't even got any branches yet whilst the bigger on is developing them.
Thirdly: Should I keep training the biggest plant now that it is showing signs of flowering? Have these plants officially entered the flowering stage? :p
Forthly: should I start giving them flowering nutes? I personally feel like I should give them some veg nutes first.
last but not least: should I romove that one leaf my finger is pointing at in one of the pictures because it blocks the sun for the fresh leaves/branches?
and that's about it!

some notes:
-The weather has not been good here so far and espessialy the sun hasn't been much present in the past weeks.
-I had some trouble with bugs (markings are visible on pictures). This problem has been taken care of and the dammage is very limited.
-I am a total noob but I would like to learn from my mistakes for my future grows!
Any advice is appriciated!
Thanks in avance fellas
I was going to say that maybe they’re just preflowers, but then, there really are quite a few of them, huh? My guess is this is probably normal for autoflowers and they’ll continue growing since the plants look healthy enough. However, someone with experience in autoflowers may have better advice.
 
I was going to say that maybe they’re just preflowers, but then, there really are quite a few of them, huh? My guess is this is probably normal for autoflowers and they’ll continue growing since the plants look healthy enough. However, someone with experience in autoflowers may have better advice.
Yeah that's what I was thinking. Guess I'll only find out by seeing how it goes. Not sure what to do when it comes to nutes tho. Thanks for the reply :)
 

Gentlemencorpse

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Yeah, it's completely normal to see preflowers around 25 days for some autos, and they will flower prematurely when stressed. Yours are really small for their age, but your environment hasn't been ideal ... not enough light is definitely hurting you here ... window sill/balcony grows are really challenging, especially when the weather won't cooperate
 
Yeah, it's completely normal to see preflowers around 25 days for some autos, and they will flower prematurely when stressed. Yours are really small for their age, but your environment hasn't been ideal ... not enough light is definitely hurting you here ... window sill/balcony grows are really challenging, especially when the weather won't cooperate
That's true, hope I'll get more sun next week. The tallest plant has indeed been under some stress as I trained her too soon and maybe a bit too oppresive. Do you think they will develop some more and hopefully produce some yield?
 
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