White pistols popped out everywhere on my female, look at the seam of the branches and you can tell whether there a female or coconut tree, thats how i look at it, enjoy!
It is starting to flower but you need to take pictures at the uppermost internode to determine if there are female pistils coming out or male preflowering areas.
NO it means it is flowering, look for white pistils growing by the 6th or 7th nodes. My guess is it female just by the look of the plant and from the pics I have seen, but in order to be 100% you must find the pistils. If there are none as of yet then there will be in the next week or so.