If you meant the split at the top of the cutting I wouldn't worry about it.
If you mean the tan colour at the base just above the soil I think it is just the cutting maturing and the bark changing from green cells to more mature woody cells and I wouldn't worry about that either if this was mine.

Cassie, that looks normal to me.
When you have a cutting on which the top is cut like that, the tip of it is going to dry and eventually fall off down to the first node where the new growth is coming from. It no longer needs that top piece, so it is getting rid of it.
It'll be OK.

Thank you so much ruth and daniella, I was just growing thru my cuttings with a fine tooth comb after that scary talk about StrangleBrand. I have never herd of such a thing. Scary! Does any one know of a good book to get I look at BGI but Im not a member so I can't access a lot of the information.
Thanks
Cassie

I also think your cutting looks fine.

Honestly, I don't think there is a good place to get info about stranglebrand. About the only thing you will find are pics of it, there is really nothing you can do about it besides get rid of the infected plant.

Shawn

It looks perfectly fine to me too.

I think BGI has some free info for the public. You can also go back & just read the posts in here & soak up a lot without even trying. We'll try to answer your questions & we asked them ourselves when we were newbies.

Linda

Thanks Shawn and Linda,BGI wont even let me look at the post.so i was checking out how to become a member and the fee is like 10 for a year lolol SO how silly. Im so gonna do it I'm sure it is well worth it. Yeah what eveyone says makes sents I think my cuttings are good looking. I just freak at the talk of SB and now im trying learn about things like that.
Thanks
Cassie

Cassie, you said "I just freak at the talk of SB". As a person new to collecting brugs it is understandable. But brace yourself, chances are that you will get SB at sometime in your brug life. So just chalk it up to something that comes along with the territory. I don't know of anyone who has not lost a brug to SB. It hurts when you find one of your brugs infected, especially when it is a special one or one that has a great deal of sentimental value.

Most of the time you can find a replacement for that cutivar. What really hurts is when it is one that just can't be replaced.

I wish you well.

David

I agree with David. The only thing that frightened me when SB hit home, was that I had just shared cuttings. But like I mentioned before...I have kept old and new plants and cuttings so far isolated...that I really had no sweat that I passed it on.

But the THOUGHT is just there :-(

So newbies just make sure that if you ever have a SB plant and it was close to others...I would not share cuttings at least for 1 year of growing again. To make sure it was just one plant and has not affected others.

I mean you will not know if the virus lies dormant somewhere...but at least you are sure that SB is not active.

Just my thoughts and how I handle SB

Lucy

Oh Lord! I have no idea what SB is but I will find out!

Yeah Thats a bummer. David you sound like you have lost a very special brug. What happened? I know some things are gonna happen, its just a bummer!. Well I think I'm okay for now. Thankd David, Lucy, and its a scary read texasfern.

Cassie