Too late to top plant when long pistols are everywhere?

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AdamAce

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Helping a friend find answers... Started from a seed found in an impressive bag of what was sold as "granddaddy kush" but not a purple variety. I don't know if its auto-flowering or photoperiod. But its at or below 12 inches tall, and has long white pistols on almost all the nodes, many 3/4 an inch long. At the top, there are approximately 4 sets of leaves folded in and pointing straight up like it is well into the flowering stage... But it's been under 24hr lighting with only a 32 watt LED. None of her sisters (hoping) have shown any sign of sex yet and are still between 6 and 10 inches tall. I know the biggest ones spent a few hours in the corner under the big light one day, so I'm wondering if that could have triggered pre-mature flowering. But just looking for some experience as to whether this is an auto that will be hindered by topping it this late? Also the growth pattern seems very indica dominant: wide broad leaves, short and stocky, symmetrical growth, and 5th set of leaves were 9 leaf clusters. Not really the narrow wispy growing I've seen in autos. Also, it's still in a 1 qt pot, so if its auto, it may need bigger pot.
 
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AdamAce

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All all of the previous plants I've seen, they would show hairs before flowering, but usually they were tiny thin singular hairs. These hairs are larger, thicker, solid white, usually in groups of 2 or more and clustered in all of the tops of new growth. And the top of the plant looks like what's typical of week 2 or 3 of flowering...
 
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AdamAce

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This girl has only seen about 4hrs of darkness in her entire life. She's been under 24hr 32watt lighting. But the light was cut off for about 4hrs one evening and I think that may have triggered this flowering. I don't believe she is an auto-flower because none of her sisters have had more than a couple hairs show, and all the seeds came from the same nug. Any theories on what could cause the indica strain to autoflower like this?

What I'm thinking of doing is lowering this low powered light to about 2 or 3 inches above the plant, so the main kola won't grow taller yet, and it will give the side shoots a week or so to catch up before she gets moved to the flower room. Any thoughts on this from more experienced growers?

And it shouldn't cause a problem keeping her on 24hr lighting for another week or so since she did all this while under 24hr lighting, right?
 
go go kid

go go kid

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you will have to lst (bend and tie down) the main cola to stop it gaining more height and allow it to side shoot to keep it low
 
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