Thank you! I just copped a valuable lesson, not only growing, but also in certain people.....
I can't honestly tell you which of the two plants was closer to the light source, as I was moving them around in the tent a fair bit over the past couple of months, but that was my first thought - less light will result in more stretchy growth. It's not a product of nature, but of nurture.
To extrapolate that, it would stand to reason that keeping a Bonsai version of any plant as a Mother would work, as you're just preserving the genetics. Taking clones from that plant & growing them out would always be dependent on HOW they are grown. Yes?