The pistols you are seeing is the plant beginning to show sex. It is not starting to flower just yet though but will soon if it is an auto.
I really think it’s your light, my guess is it may look bright to your eye but humans have a very poor sense in how many photons are actually being admitted because our eyes have the wonderful ability to shrink our retina to allow less light in when light is too much.
On the flip side, if you can download a PPFD or LUX app on your phone. Your camera on the phone will be able to measure that light coming in by keeping the shutter and F stop white open and measuring the photons the sensor receives over a 1 second span.
My suggestion would be to download that PPFD app and test the light. Raise/lower the light to the heights that the plant will be getting roughly 550 PPFD. And if you cannot get to those numbers with the light being a safe distance away from the plant then the light is junk and you will need to get something different.