Nope, I didn't say that. In Missouri the law reads that any plant that is showing any pistols is considered to be blooming as far as my blooming plant count goes. They know what we're doing and they know that if we can veg for 2 months, we are producing way too much medicine.
That being said, let's treat this as a learning moment. I have never believed that flowering starts as soon as many people think it does. I wait at least 7 days, sometimes as much as 11 days for blooming or flowering to actually occur after I've changed to 12/12. A few pistols here and there doesn't cut it. I want to see instead of green leaf Mass coming out of the growth tips, instead the plant is developing flowers. If that isn't happening, the plant technically isn't blooming. It can be pollinated at this point and you can play with it a little bit, but until you tell a photo plant to go and then wait a week for it to actually do it, It's not blooming.