Not too much effect from this el nino. We are having a pretty normal summer, but had a cool spring. My two bag seed tester strains are 1 and 2 weeks into flower, but just a few of my seeds are starting to show hairs. I didn't take notes last year, but it seems to be about the same time. {13 hours 18 minutes of daylight today} I did have to pull some a week or so early because we had 7 straight days of rain in October. I'm going to do some crosses with the BST's to get an early start.
I haven't seen any rattlers this year. I live in great rattler country though. 8 or 10 years back there were something like 7 big ones killed within 200 yards of my crossroads. Strangers were coming up to the house and asking for a gun, and my wife would give them one. But it's Cottonmouths that scare me. Those fuckers don't give you any warning. I do a lot of my prep work at night when I'm camping, so I do worry about them. But we have more Copperhead this year than normal. Several folks have been bitten walking in their yards at night with open toed shoes. The guy who does the grounds here at work has killed 5 or 6 this summer.