Thank you. That makes me feel much better. Now that I think about it, I guess if I took the yellowing/dying leaves off the plant would look much better. Maybe most people do that, and that is why plants look so much more pristine in other pictures of flowering plants that I've seen. I don't know.

I'm going to leave the dying leaves on though. I have this theory that the plant sort of uses them as a trash can for excess minerals and wastes at this stage. I dunno... that's what I would do if I were a plant.

I definitely hope the buds fatten out a good bit more in these next few weeks.