Originally Posted by Trish

Originally Posted by elllla_Wtwins

Originally Posted by Harry174

Simon was finding it hard to keep up with this lesson. "Professor you could kill the plant if you over water it and you could kill it if you don't." Simon said, he was sure about that.

Originally Posted by Starbreeze

Finally, a question Eino could give a proper answer to! Even though he had done fairly well so far. "With over-watering," Eino said after raising his hand "the soil won't drain all the water, meaning the roots cannot breathe due a lack of oxygen. There is also a chance that the roots will rot. In addition to that, fungus might grow under those circumstances, and further damage the plants." Well, he was giving specifics as to why the plant would die, but basically it would die, which was the same case with under-watering, but someone else would probably know the details better than him. "It may be possible to help a drowning plant, some of it requires re-potting, but it can be prevented by adding some sand to the soil or earthworms." Re-potting plants was always very hard and risky work so it would be best to always avoid that.

Originally Posted by nogoodforyou

Whaaaat?

Helena didn't expect professor Bentley's question. She just said 'special', not exactly thinking why. Now... think, Helena. Think. "Does it have anything to do with the full moon?" The girl suggested, but almost hoped that the woman wouldn't hear. She had no idea what to say.

Anyway. Moving on.

Watering. "Plants can... drown? If we give them too much water, but they also dry and eventually die if we don't water them at all. It depends on the plant. Some are more pretentious than others. As for the effects... well, if the plant dies, I don't think it is reversible." Or maybe re-planting or something may work?

Originally Posted by Magical Soul

Louisa nodded her head while she listened to the beautiful teacher's explanation. Was it just her or did this one really have a great skin? The young girl found herself automatically patting her cheek. They were fine... except for little pimples on her forehead. Hmmm. If she'd use a polyjuice potion only to her face, she'd use her teacher's hair. Just sayin'.

She was snapped back to reality when the bucket of poop disappeared. She shook her head and scowled at the empty table, since when did Louisa care about her looks? Hmph.

Must be the heavy dinner last night.

Moving on.

She raised her hand, "Both could kill the plant." She answered, "And I would say that some plants can be fixed while others can't...?" Again with the questioning tone. That girl knew almost nothing about the subject before so..

Originally Posted by Samira Malfoy Potter

Um..."Because too much moonclalf dung and too much water can kill the plant. I guess it depends what kind of plant it is, and if it can be fixed."

Originally Posted by AuroraQuinn

Aurora frowned a little, scouring her mental encyclopedia (thoroughly lacking in many areas) for something near to the answer. "If you over water a plant it will drown... because all the cells swell up with water and explode. And if you under water a plant it will shrivel up because there isn't enough to feed all the cells... you can use a shrivelling potion in small amounts to undo over watering if you use it earlier, and can use a conligo-hydro potion to add a lot of water without drowning it. But once they're dead then there's no way of reversing it..." was it conligo-hydro? Or inedia-hydro..? It was one of them, her mother used to make them a lot for Rufin... and they'd done the shrivelling potion in class so she was pretty confident about that. She scratched the side of her nose and fiddled with the ends of her long, red hair as she tried to remember and waited to see if she'd been right.

Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley

William raised his hand. " If you use too much water, you are bithering the environment and if you uae to little water, the soil will dry out" Willaim told the professor. " Also, the plants will die" Willaim said to the professor.

Originally Posted by bone_baud10

Ohhhhh!!!!! Stella knew the answer to the question. She raised her hand with enthusiasm, even though she looked a bit stupid, she said, "Both of the situations can make the plant die, and ummm... Professor I have a question, do the plants die the same way when they are over-watered or under-watered?" she asked felling a bit awkward because probably everybody already knows the answer.

Back to her answer, "And professor it depends how much water they need or how much water they need to lose, like, if the plants just have a small loss of water and you add a bit of water the plant will be back to normal, but if they have a huge amount of water loss then no matter how much water you add the plant will still die." She put her hand own feeling satisfied by her answer.

Originally Posted by hannah_bry27

Lucas raised his hand again. "I think that over-watering and under-watering can both kill a plant. If you give it too much water, it sort of drowns, I think. Like... It doesn't have room for air or anything because it's saturated with water." He wasn't really sure if that was right, but it sounded good to him. "And if you don't water it enough, it'll die. Plants need water to live, so if it doesn't get it... Well, that just seems to follow, doesn't it?" He thought for another moment. "It might be reversible, I suppose. If you gave a plant too much water, you could maybe drain it or soak some of it up to let it recover. If you didn't give it enough, well, you could just water it, right?"

Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Kurumi wrote down a few notes about mooncalf dung, and had to giggle that she was actually doing so, before sitting back in her seat and thinking about Professor Bentley's next question. As her other classmates chimed in, Kurumi had to keep rethinking her answer so that she wouldn't essentially offer up the same information. "In both cases, the plant will wilt and be heading towards death," Kurumi said perhaps in a little too strong of a matter-of-fact tone. "Depending on the plant, they require more water or less water than others." She supposed that it could be a matter of trial and error. "You can check for which why testing the soil. If it is crumbly to the touch, then you are under watering it. If it is feels soggy, the opposite. I am not sure if the case is the same for all magical plants, but dropping yellow leaves is also an indicator of over watering and the plant's roots rooting." She nodded her head towards Eino for him bringing up that bit of information in his answer. "Dropped brown leaves indicate the opposite."

Kurumi bit her bottom lip for a momment. "I think that you can reverse the effects of either over watering or underwatering, but could run a risk of hurting the plant more." Speaking from personal experience here. "Under watering a plant and then increasing the water intake suddenly could result in over watering." And then send the plant into a state of shock. Or something like that.

Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Sierra blinked and then glanced quickly up at the professor. Dear Merlin! She'd spaced out and missed a good half of the lesson. She frowned, knowing she should have gotten more sleep last night. Now all she wanted was a nap. She blamed that blasted Ancient Runes homework, though. The school year was only halfway through, and she was already sick of the homework.

She raised her hand. "You chance killing the plant either way," she answered. "If you don't water it, it's not getting what it needs to grow and survive. If you water it too much, though, you're pretty much drowning it. It cuts off most of the plant's oxygen." She paused and thought about reversing the effects. "I think it can be reversed, yeah. I mean, I've seen some plants before that weren't taken care of at first, and then they did much better once they got the right kind of care."

Originally Posted by Blackboard

Over-watering may lead to suffocating, drowning and root rot. The effects are generally irreversable.
Under-watering results in dehydration. The effects are generally irreversible.

It is easier to reverse the effects of under-watering as opposed to over-watering.