Everything is going well with the flowering specimens. They trooped through the storms so far, and loved it. I always noticed that a good rain helps them develop the floral clusters. I think it stimulates them in some way, perhaps the female pistils sense and interpret the wet rain as a threat to the spread of potential pollen. Therefore, as a response, they grow longer pistils in order to better the chances of pollination. Just my hypothesis though.
Storm 3 moved out after raining all night long, they arose to some nice and clear Sunshine. I shook the stems to take off the residual water from inside the developing buds. UD is becoming more and more purple, which is nice.
From comparison, there is a huge difference between natural winter flowering and regular spring/summer flowering. In the winter, growth rates are a lot slower, there is less pistils, yields and buds are a lot smaller. However, there is no difference in the quality of the medicine, it comes out as good, sometimes even better than other seasonal batches. A positive is that the winter flowers get no bugs at all, too cold for them all, spring/summer you see a lot of bugs flying around, as expected with warmer temperatures which are more conducive to the insect eggs hatching.
The JD/UD right now are producing a lot of trichomes, and sugar leaves. I can see they have put out small, but nice little "flower skeletons", and hopefully we can get those sites to swell and grow to an acceptable size in due time.
Really looking forward to another trip around the Sun and some Spring flowers
Good analogy 
It may very well be a wet Spring due to El Nino, but I'm looking forward to the warmer temperatures, and so are my specimens! 
