Ready for flowering? (pics)

This plant is 40 days old and 10-12 inches long. It formed preflowers 15 days ago although it was under 24 hours of light. Current lighting schedule is 18/6. What do you think, are these preflowers or flowers? Should i switch to 12/12?

you can def switch to 12/12. remember the plant is still going to get bigger during the flowering phase, as much as double or triple the current size.

Those aren't pre-flowers. You're in flowering. It must be an auto-flowering strain. You might as well go ahead and switch to 12/12.

Thanks.

Is it possible for some below-average bagseed to be of an autoflowering strain? I have some other plants which were seeded at the same time with this one but somehow got burnt under the same conditions. I cut the dead leaves and tops, now they're recovering. These small (wildly pruned because of burns) plants also have white hairs at the nodes, they look like little plucked chickens though, what to do with them?

It would be nice if you guys can check the journal of this grow from the link below and give some advice...