I’ll post daily pics of the OHuck girdling experiment here.
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
The control is catching up with purpling. Not seeing gold except on the margins of a few leaves.
Day 7
Day 8
Cut their heads off today. Picture doesn’t show but they’re getting brown. Girdled pheno seems to have MORE green.
Day 9
Day 10
The apical buds are getting dry and ugly pretty evenly. I am pruning those.
One noteworthy observation, the branches below the girdle show far less purple color and age. I wonder if those branches are receiving what is cut off from the top. Could be powerful.
Day 11
Ideally this would be done with clones rather than sisters. Relative to the deep purple sister I get the distinct sense that the girdle has slowed the onset of senescence.
The girdling is visible right above the large flower on the main stem.
Day… May have missed one. Call it 13. Everything continues to age except the buds below the girdling.
Day… Don’t remember… Think this is done.
