Blooming Magick – how much longer can we make flowers live?

[Moon1ight]

I'm always looking for ideas on how to measure magick. Rob writes that "a BTU is equal to the amount of energy needed to heat one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit" and so we can also make a unit that equals to causing any quantifiable effect. The difficulty is of course in producing a quantifiable effect reliably.

Recently, I've read this about "An easy experiment you can do at home":

Buy a bunch of fresh flowers. Split it in half, so you have two bunches. Both go in water. Put them next to each other on your windowsill or table, or wherever you like.

Flip a coin to determine which one will get energy healing. Put a piece of tape on that vase.

Each day, take that vase off the windowsill. This makes it easier to target only that vase with the healing energy. Take a few minutes and send it healing energy. For those of you in my classes, use the broad healing energy, and simply place your hands around the vase and flowers, making sure to get the entire plant from stem to tip. Then place those flowers back on the windowsill.

If you want to be scientific, you can also move the other flowers around, to control for any stirring of the water, but that shouldn't matter. If moving flowers made them last a lot longer, our mothers would have told us to do that.

I am of course intrigued. Apparently fragrant roses last 7-12 days. So we could quantify how much longer the treated roses last, compared to the untreated ones.

To my science-loving friends, the above description is a bit lacking in rigour, so I'm trying to create a better protocol. Here are my original notes:
I buy two identical vases

I buy eight roses, ideally fragrant ones. First because I like the fragrance, but also I've read that fragrant roses last less long then non-fragrant ones. Less long is better, as it allows for more runs, faster results.

I somehow mark the vases, draw a circle on one and a square on the other or so.

I send healing energy to the flowers in one but not the other. Alternatively, I send life to one and death to the other. Yet more alternatively, I transfer the life of the flowers in one to the other. These are obviously separate runs with new flowers each time. The florists will be very happy 😁

I change both vase's water every other day and then also swap their places on the windowsill.
Now I'm reading more on caring for cut roses
https://www.southernliving.com/garden/flowers/how-to-keep-cut-roses-alive
https://www.tomflowers.ch/pages/rosen-pflege
https://www.heinens.com/stories/10-tips-to-keep-roses-looking-great/

Notes:

• The vase should fit at least two thirds of the stems, so 40 cm vases for 60 cm roses (the stems become shorter with each cut, so the vase should be be shorter then the initial stems)
• The water should be hand warm and fill the vase to two thirds. Add flower food.
• The roses should receive diagonal cuts of 3-5 cm length (trimming the stems) before being placed in the water – "You have about 10 seconds to put each stem into the water". This requires a very sharp and clean blade.
• There should be no leaves beneath the water line, and falling leaves should be removed
• The water should be changed... when it becomes murky? "Every few days"... 2 or 4? "this is a good time to re-trim the stems and add flower food to the fresh water."
• Apparently one should keep them away from direct sunlight, drafts and heat from a heater.

Edit: Changing the water every other day, re-trimming and adding food of course adds effort and room for differences ... I was thinking of maybe just doing it once initially, and leaving it be afterwards, only swapping the positions of the vases every day or so, to equalise differences in heat and light...
Interestingly, the flower food I'm looking at even says "No need to change the water or to re-cut stems during the period in the vase." and rather to only "If necessary top up vase with water containing [...] flower food" – I like that. So top up the vases to two thirds on every other day, swap places and otherwise leave them be (except for the magick of course :D).