Ok here are some pics of the rot problem. Last night I cut out the rot that was at the base of the pstem. I was concerned this week because the growth seemed to have slowed and so today I took a closer look at the top of the stem and found that even though it had put on one leaf the next cigar leaf was rotten. So I started cutting back the pstem about a half inch at a time and of course I found a lot more rot. I ended up cutting off ~2ft of stem until the whole section was green.
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