In order to help my Aji Amarillo plant get some more sugars produced by the chlorophyll in the leaves, I've decided to try some low stress training (a technique normally associated with growing cannabis).
Low-stress training is a way to increase the yield of a particular crop without causing too much damage to the plant, such as pruning/topping (a form of high stress training). With this spicy pepper plant, I have "topped" it once during its early vegetative stage (cutting off the very top of the plant to produce more shoots), and it actually healed itself in a way that seems like I haven't topped it at all (although it is growing two separate shoots extremely close to where I cut it).
A few days ago, I found some loose "string" of rubber lying around on the ground and I decided to use that to tie down the plant close to the rim of the container. Noticing today, it seems to be trying to regain apical dominance at the "top" of the plant, but near the base of the stem it seems that the plant is trying to grow new shoots as quickly as possible. From my perspective it is growing faster than the apical buds. Currently, there are no flowering buds just yet but I'm pretty impressed by how quickly the plant is bushing up by simply tying the plant down and letting the leaves get more sunlight.
It's just a small little experiment and I hope to try more of this in the future, with far more plants. I'll definitely do an update on this later on.