flowering at that stage is normal, sometimes they vine for meters, sometimes they flower when they're just shrubs. Some species of the thorelii aggregate flower at the actual rosette level and that's quite peculiar.
Your plant is already vining, and if it wasn't because we need more proves to say that, I would say that this kind of "thick vining" is typical of females, while males produce the much longer and faster growing internodes and proper vines. You can take a picture of the upper half of the stem, let's have a look.
Anyway, the page where you bought the plant says "no id, it could have some thorelii in it", you say "probably it's n. 18". I don't understand how it is possible to produce, buy and sell plants without having idea of what they are

But at this point that could be (globosa x andamana) x (globosa x mirabilis) x (kuchingensis x mirabilis) :D
Plus, if you'll use it to make other similar hybrids, the actual ID becomes less important.
To prevent other people to fall in the same problem, don't label these plants as globosa, please label them as ?.