Problem with aloe stalk?

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Oleg
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Problem with aloe stalk?

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A few days ago I took a walk round the balcony and found something strange with my aloe delaetii plant:
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Is it a stalk or something else looking like a snake?!
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Hi Oleg, I have had something similar happen a few times. The flower stalk seems to get caught and double back, if I try to free the stalk it usually just breaks! Rather a nuisance.
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Hi,

What a nuisance. If it were mine I would just put a nick/cut in the leaf base which surrounds the flower stem and leave it to sort itself out from there.

Are you sure that this is A.delaetii?

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juster wrote:Hi Oleg, I have had something similar happen a few times. The flower stalk seems to get caught and double back, if I try to free the stalk it usually just breaks! Rather a nuisance.
Hi Juster, thanks for your experience sharing; I've tried to shuffle the "nuisance" today - it really felt to be pretty
breakable!
topsy wrote:Are you sure that this is A.delaetii?

Hi Suzanne, thanks for the tip - I'll try it tomorrow...
Yes, it's a. delaetii - I posted the plant's photo last year; there was a discussion which came to that definition conclusion in the end. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=166391
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