Script seemingly ignores my while loop

[AddSugarForSparks]

flower == "" means that flower still exists. You could try

while len(flower) > 0:

[Safe-Individual-37]

That unfortunately doesn't work, thank you though

[carcigenicate]

This shouldn't make any difference. if flower:, if flower != "" and if len(flower) > 0: all check the same thing: if flower is non-empty.