Some things just take time.

The Mexican agave plant can take up to forty years to bloom, especially, if it is growing without cultivation at all.  I asked the Lord, who would want a plant that is only going to bloom once in their lives.  If they are lucky, they may catch a second bloom, but no one will live to see the third generation of the plants offspring for the plant dies after blooming.  They call this plant, the century plant.  The impressiveness of the bloom makes it all worth the wait.  Some crops will just have to be waited on.  They are not late.  They are not delayed.  They are not sick.  They are not denied.  They are on time.  Your harvest will come, it just takes time.  People who cultivate this plant put in work for years before they see the bloom.  If they stopped watering the plant and taking care of it, you run the risk of not seeing anything at all.  What a shame and waste of time and energy.  The old folks used to say, " I believe I'll run on to see what the end is gone be."  They did not judge a thing before it's time.  At weddings, they were silent.  Baby christenings, they just smiled.  They knew that time was going to tell what that marriage or that child would grow up to be.  Only after the manifestation is there a proclamation.  They knew this.  All things are revealed by time.  All things.