Silly plant, it is producing buds on day 33. Doesn’t it know that it is in senescence (dying)? Why would a plant with about a week to live, grow new buds. The Wisconsin Fast Plant step-by-step instructions tells the student to terminate the buds so that the plant can channel its energy toward seed growth. Why doesn’t the plant know this? Even while dying the plant’s instinct is to create and not give up reproducing. I wonder if the horticulturist did not give this deadline to terminate new buds, if these buds would flower and seed. Plant are tenacious, clinging or adhering close to life. My guess is that the pruning is done to complete the life cycle to the convenience of the horticulturist not the plant. For a plant in the wild, this DNA coding to keep budding may mean a few more plants are created and may mean survival of the species. Life is tenacious.