on first pic, doesn't look like inflo, looks like a dried up baby branch to me. as to straightening plumies, if there were any way you could stick a heavy wood or metal stick/stake, thru the pot and into the ground, then attach plumie to stake, that plumie would be straight in a month. It is much more difficult to straighten in a pot b/c whatever you use doesn't have a solid support so it would follow the direction of the plumie and nothing would be accomplished.

Ok! Thanks!! It just worried me after I cut off the black rot last night I don't want to loose my plumie!

That first pic, I would prune below the dry part until you get free flowing white milky substance, then stop and let it heal.

I never like to see stringy growth, but some varieties tend that way. If you can stake it in some way to take the kinks out of it, I'd do it. Also, I would repot it and reorient the trunk so that it grows more upright. It doesn't hurt a bit to score around the edges of the rootball to stimulate new growth.

I have a large tree that has a tendency towards the same general growth pattern as the example shown. I have several cuttings from the original tree and there is no doubt, it's a little more rangy than I'd like, but as they say, it is what it is; as long as it's healthy and produces inflows, I'm happy.

Good luck. El Bee