My girl raised an interestin question to me... I had given her a week early bud I snipped cuz it had this beautiful pink and purple tones to it, she asked me "How do I keep it like this?" ....... Shit I dont think you can, anybody out there got a way of preserving a flower in stasis? maybe some kind of glass coating or something? I told her the best thing I could do was take a picture but that would be cool if there was some kind of way to preserve the bud in its ripe full of life state.