Thank You All for Your Kind Words and Thoughts. This is a sad time. He was the definition of Unconditional Love. He was involved in so much in his life. From leading the first teachers strike in CA in the sixties (against Gov. Ronald Reagan's school cuts), to Opening/Re-Opening Parks for better public use of public lands. I am struggling with writting a euology I wish to give at his service. I was (even when I attended the same High School He taught at) always so very proud to be his daughter, and still am.
As for the plant, the husband thinks it got messed up in the stalk when it was cloned. It was not a real young clone, so what ever it was developed slowly and that final watering just closed off the place in the stalk that fed the rest of the plant water, possibly.