Two things .....

[james mickelso]

Yeah. It drives me nuts. The bud comes out, grows really well, and then all of a sudden it turns reddish and I tug on it and ...pop!!!... out it comes. I could see if it got water in it or was overly wet but there is no ryme or reason for it to do this. I had one of my wianie (?) leopards get all the way to throwing out a huge flower bud cluster and then went out one morning and booom!!!! All dead and rotted at the base. Just pulled the whole mass out. I know lots of cuss words and used them all. Frustrating.

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Originally Posted by james mickelso

Yeah. It drives me nuts. The bud comes out, grows really well, and then all of a sudden it turns reddish and I tug on it and ...pop!!!... out it comes. I could see if it got water in it or was overly wet but there is no ryme or reason for it to do this. I had one of my wianie (?) leopards get all the way to throwing out a huge flower bud cluster and then went out one morning and booom!!!! All dead and rotted at the base. Just pulled the whole mass out. I know lots of cuss words and used them all. Frustrating.

I hope your plant heard all those cuss words and smartened up! Mine usually do it when quite small. Never had one get that far along! And it doesn't happen a lot but it makes no sense to me when it does.