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Term 44: September - December 2016 Term Forty-Four: Year of the Poltergeist (Sept 2090 - June 2091)

 
 
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FOUR multi-paragraph entries that include lots of VIVID details about the plant. Be creative, include as many details as possible, physically and also the demeanor of the plant as well. Is it droopy? Has it changed colors? How is it reacting to water, how is it reacting to sunlight and shade? Does it need a large amount of nutrients or is it okay without them? Since this plant is kind of your character's creation, be creative about what it looks like/the other attributes about the plant. Even if students combine the same plants, they probably won't look or act exactly alike, since this kind of crossbreeding is very unpredictable and more for fun.

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FOUR detailed drawings of the cross-bred plant in the four stages. As Paul wanted his students to do, I would like labels of all the parts of the plant and which physical attributes go with which plant. Does your cross have ashy petals? Or sprouted thorns? Or maybe your mandrake coughs ash now--THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS PLEASE BE CREATIVE HERE. Colored or non-colored pictures both allowed. Hand-drawn or computer drawn pictures allowed. I'll even accept some...graphic-y smushing together pictures of plants too, if anyone can figure out who to do that xD

To make it easier on you guys and so that you can do the four posts/pictures not all at once, but at your own pace, and I have made this thread for you to post in. Your four things are due by December 1st, and if you don't have a chance to do all four, I'll give you points for what you have posted thus far on that date. I will lock this thread on December 1st. Only post ONCE in the thread, and keep editing your post when you add in either a drawing or an entry under the spoiler tags. If your character did not attend the lesson, this is FINE you can still do the extra credit. Just pick a plant from the greenhouse to combine with either Floo Flowers or Fire Roses. Talk to me if you are unsure of what's going on and want to participate and don't feel like stalking.

Have fun. Be creative. Make me laugh, make me cry, IDEK give me EMOTIONS GOSH GOLLY.

Feel free to make your entries as journal-like as possible.


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Harvey loved colours. He decided he would make this a colour experiment. So, he brought over some of the colour changing roses and planted them right next to the Rosa Igniferas. He wasn't quite sure how all the pollination thing worked, but he was pretty sure this way the smoke would affect any seeds from the colour changing roses and any new plants would have the properties of both. Or so he hoped.

He did know that usually the pollination worked through bees and other insects, carrying pollen around and stuff. So... this made sense.

Shrugging off any lack of certainty about this, he decided to trust fate and leave nature to nature. He left the roses next to each other and made a mental note to check on things in a few days to see what would happen. And then he could start the diary. There wasn't really anything to write about yet...

Rainbows, he hoped!


SPOILER!!: Week One

Week One
I had left the roses next to each other. The smoke from the Rosa Igniferas seems to have pollinated the colour changing roses. I found tiny little shoots growing in the earth in between the plants. I'm guessing that these are the cross-bread flowers. At least I hope they are.

I decided not to move them since I don't know how fragile these new plants are. The shoots are multicoloured. This is strange, I think, since the stems of both plants are green, and it is only the flowers themselves which display burning or colour-changing properties. They look pretty, though. The colours change like on a gradient, tones and shades and colours seamlessly next to each other so you can't really tell when one starts and when it ends.

I touched them - the shoots are a normal temperature to the touch. They don't seem to have any properties of the Rosa Igniferas, at least not yet, though I know that's a pretty big claim since the flowers haven't appeared yet. The fact that there are shoots already seems weird though - should flowers pollinate and grow so fast? I need to check this. I should know it really.

In terms of texture the shoots feel the same as those of a normal rose. I checked some of the shoots in the greenhouses of both these kinds of roses and they all feel the same. I watered all the plants the same amount. To see what happens with their response to light, I placed two bright lamps directly over two of the shoots (there are six in total). Perhaps I shall experiment with different amounts of water soon - though I want to make sure they will actually survive before I start doing that. We'll see.


SPOILER!!: Week Two

Week Two
They've grown. That's the first thing I noticed. The shoots were practically teenagers this morning when I checked on them. They were almost the same height as the roses - both kinds. All of them, regardless of how much light they had.

The ones which have had more light, so two of them, have thicker stems and bigger buds. All six have rosebuds that haven't opened yet. They are surrounded by green leaves for now for protection, just as normal roses are. Except that these are colourful on the roses which have had more light. All the leaves, in fact, are different colours, as if they are autumn flowers or something.

The remaining four flowers are all green so far. Including the buds. Which is a bit odd, I think. Hopefully that will change. But at least because of the coloured leaves I can tell them all apart very easily now. They are all also war to the touch, still. Like they're storing heat or something. Maybe they are, so that they can all burn later?

I watered four of the flowers today - the two which have had more light and then two which haven't. I gave the remaining two half as much water - I don't want them to shrivel up and die or anything, but I also want to see what happens if they have less to drink. And now back to waiting...


SPOILER!!: Week Three
They're all different! This is so exciting! I didn't think it would actually work like this... anyway, so the two flowers that had more light and normal water have opened up. They are still all colourful - autumn-coloured leaves and totally multi-coloured petals. They are also smoking a little bit - but really it's more like steam, barely visible and kind of thin, and the plants seem to be normal room temperature. I watered them again, hopefully it will resemble fire a bit more next week - though perhaps that's too much to hope for...?

The roses which have had the normal amount of water have also opened up, and they are smoking like crazy! It's almost like fog. And - it's colourful! Well, at least I think it is - since it's smoke it's not exactly solid and it's hard to get a good look, but I'm almost certain there are shimmering and changing tones of grey and blues. Their petals are just read, so nothing crazy. They're really hot to the touch.

And the last two which had had less water look a bit... burnt. And dry. They haven't opened up yet, and there's no smoke coming from them, but there is a definite sense of heat rising from the rose buds. They are still all green - a much lighter green than the others though, almost like they're fading... I really hope I haven't killed them!

A really exciting thing happened just as I was about to leave, too, when I opened the door - about half a dozen butterflies flew in. It was weird. Almost as if they were waiting for me to open the door. And they all flew to the roses which have had the normal amount of water and light. So I wonder, are they sending out some sort of smell that I can't smell myself bu the butterflies can? I did try to shoo them away, but I had no success. And to be honest I kind of want to see what they do so... I left them in there... I did leave them some water and fruit though (I think that's enough to sustain them, that is what I saw at the butterfly conservatory last summer anyway). Until next week!


SPOILER!!: Week Four
The butterflies are way more colourful than they were last week. Or maybe that's just the flowers? And there are caterpillars which are multicoloured too! How does that work?? I really hope we can leave them for longer to see what happens! I'd love to see what butterflies these caterpillars turn into!

The two flowers with a normal amount of light and water are on fire now. Multi-coloured flames. It's brilliant! Like sparkling gems! and they are so hot when you get too close. They look so alive, they're mesmerising.

The two which have had more light have finally opened up their multicoloured petals, and they are burning too, but much much less than the others (which is strange isn't it?) though the colours of the flames and petals seem... fuller. Unnaturally so. A bit creepy. If colours can be creepy, that is. What's even weirder, these have now become really cold to the touch, which makes them seem even creepier.

And the two with the least amount of water are still smoking thinly and looking rather dry. Nothing has changed. I think these crossbred flowers really do need water to survive. SO that's that! What does all this mean?!
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Azura just adored Roses, they were in fact her favorite flower and if she was honest she had always wanted to try and breed a rose that was either blue, her favorite color.. or purple to match her eyes..

So this would be an experiment to see how well she could do all that. Sure it seemed like Floo Flowers and Fire Roses made the process a bit easier.. but it was a shot!

Despite her earlier pick of Flutterbies, she changed her mind and went straight to the color changing roses.. she decided all the smoldering colors would be super pretty.. besides who wanted a smoldering bush?

Not her!

She carefully took one of the Floo Flowers that she had repotted in the lesson and some color changing roses and carefully planted them next to each other in a small little out of the way corner of the greenhouses.. lest she end up with the Floo flowers pollinating everything! She set up some spells to protect the two of them from the elements and from other plants and after watering them both.. leaned back to smile at her plants..

"All right you two.. I'll be back tomorrow so play nice hmm?" She grinned as she gently patted their leaves and headed off!


SPOILER!!: Journal Entries!

This is the Journal of Azura Luna Snow, documenting how Floo Flowers and Color Changing Roses cross breed!

SPOILER!!: Week One

Week One: So I've been visiting my little flowers every day, to see if anything has happened or not. I've been watering them faithfully.. and finally after five long days.. several shoots have begun to sprout out of the ground in between the two parent plants.

They aren't the proper bright green they should be though, I seem to have managed to have grown jewel toned plants!

Well okay for right now just the shoots are jewel toned! One is a deep emerald green, one a lovely shade of magenta, one pretty much the same shade of purple that my eyes are, a brilliant sapphire one and a deep ruby red one! I was stunned Professor Meyers! And so overwhelmed at how pretty there were!

All of the shoots were cool to the touch, and there was no scent of smoke in the air. But again these are just shoots.. I watered them all and I'm going to keep them out of the sun just in case. But for now it seems like I just have multi-colored plants!

I'm going to continue to visit them every day and keep watering them. Also, I want to visit them, because I don't want them to be lonely.. I was thinking about naming them as well..


SPOILER!!: Week Two
Week Two: I've been visiting the plants nearly every day and they are still growing well. I've watered them daily and have allowed them an hour of sunlight, they seem to like that! So next week I'm going to up to two hours to see how they react to that. Also, I've been exposing them to moonlight.. Part of me was really curious to see how the shoots reacted to the moon.

The stalks actually seem to sparkle in the moon light! So not only do I have jewel toned shoots, but jewel toned shoots that kinda glisten in the moonlight! They really are marvelous plants!

I've named them as well, Jade is the Emerald Green one, Rose is the Magenta one, Violet is the purple one whose stalks looks like the color of my eyes, Arya is the Sapphire blue one and Ruby is the red one! I think they like their names!

So far the stalks are not hot to the touch, in fact they seem rather cool, except when you leave them in the sun, then they heat up a bit..That could be from the heat of the sun though? I shall continue watching this.

No buds or leaves yet, just stalks. No scent of smoke in the air either! They seem to be thriving with what I'm doing so I'm going to keep it up this week.. and see what next week brings! These plants are so special Professor Meyers! I love them! Thank you for letting us do this!


SPOILER!!: Week Three

Week Three:The stalks have grown buds!!! I've been so patiently wait for them to flower in some way. Quite honestly Professor Meyers I was getting a bit discouraged. Day after day I would come and visit my pretty stalks, and though the stalks grew bigger, no leaves or flowers have appeared on them.

I was trying everything as well. Watering them different amounts, seeing if they wanted more time in the sun or shade, I.. actually even tried singing to them. I read that plants grow better while listening to classical music.. well okay.. muggle plants do. So I wasn't sure if magical plants did or not. I tried it anyways though. Various One Direction songs mostly. I think they liked me singing "Perfect." to them, their stalks bent a little towards me as I sang that song.

Plants are so fun!

Anyways! As I said the stalks have been growing just fine. I water them morning and night, and have been giving them two hours of sunlight. They seem to like that. Also two hours of moonlight as well. Any more and they start to droop. They still glow in the moonlight as well, but after two hours it starts to wane as well.

The stalks feel a little warmer now, and I touched one of the buds and they seem to have a heat emanating from them. I'm super curious as to how the blooms will look when they've opened.

Also leaves.. they need leaves as well! Hopefully soon!


SPOILER!!: Week Four..

Week Four: They.. have.. bloomed. I can't believe it! I've been waiting for so long and now.. my precious flowers have bloomed! And sprouted leaves as well!

The leaves are the same color as the stalks they grew from, so Violet has purple leaves, Ruby has red leaves, and so on and so forth. Also I've noticed something, these roses don't really have thorns. The stalks get slightly more hard and spiny near where the flower is, but not proper thorns.

But onto the blooms, they are so beautiful! The petals are a slight bit lighter in color than the stem and they sort of shine and glimmer when you turn your head, like Jewels. Whats even better is that near the middle of the blossom,it looks like it's smoldering. Which makes the whole flower look like it's lit from within. I'm going to call the flowers Smoldering Jewels.

It actually is smoldering Professor Meyers, the middle of the flower is very hot! And the stem is warm to the touch, but it's not burning. There is no smell of smoke either, and while there is the occasional crackling sound,no ash comes from the leaves.

As soon as you water them though, the fire will go out for a bit, so that's how I fully know that they are actually smoldering..

They really like the sun as well. I've been leaving them out in it as much as I can and they have been growing so well! They still can only handle two hours of moonlight though. and they soak up water so fast, but they really seem to enjoy it.

I'm so excited about my plants and how they turned out.. Thank you so much for allowing us to do this!



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A part of Rula had considered not doing assignment - Herbology wasn't her favorite subject after all, even if she liked Professor Myers, so why focus even more on it? She had so many other subjects to be working on and studying anyway.

But another part of her thought it would probably be good practice for her OWL, and it was extra credit. Adding extra stuff to her grade was always a good idea, no matter if it was her best subject or her worst.

Besides, she was kinda curious to see how this would turn out too. She'd picked out the Color Changing Roses at the end of that lesson, and it was fun thinking about all the possibilities that could occur when it was crossed with the Fire Roses or Floo Flowers. What would happen? Who knew!

So yeah, she'd decided to do this.

She planted some of the Color Changing Roses and the Fire Roses next to each other - making sure to use Aguamenti on the Fire Roses so she didn't catch fire on herself or anything else - and now...that was it. For now, at least.

It was just a matter of time to see what would happen next.

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So, so far things seem to be going okay! I mean, I haven't been doing the assignment all that long, so it's not like there's been a lot of time for things to go bad, but still. Things are actually growing!

I've been trying to alternate the amount of water the new seedlings (that's a proper plant term, right? I think that's what these are) to see if that'll affect their growth, and so far it looks like the ones I've given the least amount of water to are growing the fastest. So I guess this crossbreed doesn't like water? Probably get that from the Fire Roses.

They also look like a normal green so far. No different colors or fire or anything yet. But they are still tiny and growing, so I guess that'll come later, if it happens at all.


Text Cut: Second Entry
Still going pretty good so far!

I've been watering these once every three days, and that seems like it's working for them because they're growing pretty well. They also appear to like a lot of sunlight, so cloudy and rainy days aren't very good for them. But since they're in a greenhouse and magic can temporarily create sunlight for them, the weather doesn't matter too much. Natural sunlight seems preferred though.

They haven't grown enough to produce any flower buds yet, but they have grown leaves and small thorns so far. The leaves and stems are still the normal green color, but the thorns are interesting! They're a really, really dark greenish-black color, and they're kind of warm when you touch them. Not super hot or anything, so you won't get burned, but definitely warm. It's just the thorns too - the rest of the plant feels normal.

That's the main new/different thing I've noticed so far. I'm actually kind of excited to see what other things show up in the future.


Text Cut: Third Entry
They're finally budding now, and now they're starting to look really pretty!

Some of them are already showing a bit of the colors of their petals, and so far I can see reds, oranges, and yellows. But there could be more colors to come once they grow more. I'm still giving them water every three days and lots of sunlight, so the ones I gave a lot of water to in the beginning are slowly catching up in growth.

They're still really straight too, like they want to get as close to the sky as possible. The stem and leaves seem pretty firm and normal and green.

The thorns are still that really dark greenish-black color, and they also feel like they're getting warmer by the day. They're not super pointy like normal thorns though. They stick out like thorns, but the end feels kind of dull and slightly rounded. So maybe the temperature is supposed to make up for the lack of pointy thorns? Or maybe it's the cause of them not being pointy. I don't know, just guessing.

Anyway, that's all for now. I can't wait to see them finally bloom!


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They've bloomed and they look SO COOL!

Although technically, they're actually hot. But you know what I mean!

They all catch on fire like the Fire Roses do now that they've bloomed and they're getting a lot of sun. It's more late spring/almost early summer though, so they seem to start a bit earlier than normal Fire Roses?

Also, they're all kinds of different colors! Well, different colors that fire can turn, it seems like. There's red, orange, yellow, blue, and white. Those seem to be the main ones, and the flower petals will change colors to reflect the flame, so sometimes they may be a mixture of colors. They do give off a little bit of smoke too, but not as much as the Fire Roses.

The thorns have also gotten really by now too, and they'd probably burn you if you touch them for too long. I just touched them for a second once, so I haven't really tested if it'll actually burn you. And I'm not going to. But if someone wants to test it, they can, I guess. I wouldn't recommend it though.

The thorns do cool down when I water the plants though, and the flame temporarily goes out, so maybe the temperature is tied to however hot the flames are. Also when I water them, the petals turn a very dull grey color until the flame starts up again. The thorns don't change color though.

I really like how these turned out! And I am kind of curious to see what would happen if I crossed the Color Changing Roses with the Floo Flowers now too. Maybe I could try that next term if I do well enough on my OWL for this class? I think it could be interesting.
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There was a 99.99% chance he wouldn't do this extra credit. It didn't really count toward his final grade, he didn't particularly like plants (but he adored the fact he didn't need magic) and there were probably a million things he could be doing instead. So why was the 15 year old out in the greenhouse putting plants together? Simple, this would look really impressive to his parents.

What better way to win favour with his parents than to let them think he was finally taking his education seriously and that he was a new person? Gone were the days of the kid who'd skip class and refuse to do work. Sure, he was still here, but they wouldn't know that. All they'd see was him doing work he wasn't actually obligated to do. It was the perfect plan.

Nothing could go wrong.

His plants of choice were the fire roses and the gravity resistant trees. Just picture it....flaming, floating bushes. His mum would LOVE that, even if she never let it into her garden. She'd be proper impressed even!

That was reason enough. An impressed mother made for an impressed father and an impressed father made for an absolutely brilliant summer.

This being decided, the Fourth Year worked hard at his hybrid, day and night--or day...just day; through the rain or sunshine.....mostly sunshine. He was here for his little creation and couldn't wait for it to blossom.

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SPOILER!!: Entry 1
I'd have gotten my quill to write this, but there was only so much it could do with this stubborn thing that refuses to grow. I've tried water, fertilizer, moving it in and out of the shade but after this week, I'm not sure this plant understands its job here.

By day four, I attempted communication with the plant. Some say they understand and that they even respond. Currently, I'm prepared to conclude that my plant is hard of hearing.

It's very possible the roots might just be really far down in thepot, accounting for the time it's taking to sprout above ground but see...I didn't bury it all that deep. By NOW it should be out here. A part of me wonders if it's dead but after all this hard work I refuse to believe as much. Roger is simply a late bloomer (naming, I hear, can give them incentive to grow). Most days, I see everyone else's plants sprouting up and this one girl even squealed so loud my ear drums felt like they were bleeding but Roger's a stubborn one, he didn't budge an inch.

If I show up tomorrow and he's still snug in his flower pot, I'm afraid to say I might have to replace the little guy. We've had our laughs (clearly at my expense) but there comes a time when every budding young herbologist needs to let go, and mine is coming up quickly.


SPOILER!!: Entry 2
The last date on this journal entry tells me I haven't been here in some time. It might be all of a couple days actually but I've assured myself that sometimes plants just need a little space to grow, away from the overbearing plant parents just looming over them with expectations of growth.

Sad to say, Roger may have liked the hovering. In my absence, his dirt has gone dry and I can make out the faintest of stems breaking free but it's shriveled and looks like it's been traveling the desert. This plant is clearly a girl. Roger (as she will still be called) is the type of girl who can't make up her mind. Won't grow when you're around but throws a bloody tantrum the moment you stop paying her any attention. She's the kind of plant I'm glad my girlfriend isn't.

My first thought is to uproot the whole thing, bin it and start over but at this point, I'm not sure how feasible that is. Water usually helps in this situation, I've already doused it with a bucket and a half of the stuff--y'know, on account of how dry it is and how much water I have to make up for skipping.

I'm sure that by morning Roger will be a fine, upstanding plant citizen and we'll be right back on track.


SPOILER!!: Entry 3
DEAR SWEET MERLIN, ROGER'S DEAD!!

This is not a drill, these are the desperate words of a Gryffindor who might possibly have drowned his plant in an attempt to make her LIVE. I may have to start covering my tracks. Change greenhouses. Start attending class under a new name. The Professor will never let me forget this. 'You had one job, Bellaire, raise a bloody plant'. And you know what, you'd be surprised at how ridiculously difficult this is.

As a last resort I've started throwing piles and piles of compost into the flower pot. It's my hope that I can coax Roger back from the after life with some time to spare as we've already fallen behind on the growth curve. It's unfortunate my plant had to be the one to decide it wasn't about this being successful life. This must be how my parents feel.

Roger, if you can hear me over there in the great, big, green, sun filled beyond, come back. Let's talk this through like any reasonable plant parent and plant child would do. My points and maybe even my summer depends on this and I honestly don't think you need to be this dramatic. Most plants would kill for the amount of water I gave to you.

Sad to say, despite much pleading and offers of extra compost, the plant remained....dead. I'm not sure what else to think of it really. Perhaps these two plants just didn't make a good fit. Clearly I'm not to be blamed for the atrocious appearance of this little bud that never really was.


SPOILER!!: Entry 4
There are many things people never expect in life. Right now, while writing this entry, I never believed someone would steal a dead plant.

I've arrived at the greenhouse, just a few days since my last visit as I admit to being awfully inconsistent. Can you blame me though? Roger has refused to grow, in fact, she's refused to live. As it so happens, she's also refused to be HERE for our customary groveling sessions in which I make ardent requests for her to show any signs of life.

I suppose the Professor must have found her and decided to properly put her out of her misery but a note indicating as much would have been appreciated. She may not have gotten up to much....at all....but she is still my plant child and I worry.

-- As it turns out, I'd left Roger on the other side of the greenhouse and was looking at a pot that was actually empty. In a weird way, I'm happy to see my dead plant again. It might be time to simply accept that she will never be what I want her to be and that's okay, because I've been writing in this journal so the Professor knows I've been coming here semi-diligently which means I get rewarded anyway.

It's a shame I'll never see her in all her glory but maybe there's nothing so terribly wrong with loving this shriveled and dried little bud afterall.
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Tenacius, wide eyed and eager, had just come in from Professor Myers who was looking a little worse for wear. And for that the Gryffindor Ace was profuse in his thanks and praises. Plus a milkshake. Because hey the Herbologist truly deserves it as he went out of his way to help the Curly Top with this little prized sapling cradled in his hands right now.

But now it was TIME, time to make the ULTIMATE Guard Plant.... errr yeah he's gonna hafta come up with a better name than that...

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Paige could not even begin to commit to words how excited she was about this assignment. It was the only thing really keeping her mind at Hogwarts at the moment now that her heart and most of her mind were both beyond the castle’s walls. She had forced herself to narrow her study down to puffpods and floo flowers, despite mapping out possible genetic traits with all four plants she had initially written down - and had the pages and pages of parchment to prove it.


Finding herself a spot in the greenhouse, Paige had planted both plants (a well placed Levitation Charm for her puffpod over the soil) next to each other and administered a Shield Charm - an especially powerful one, if she did say so herself - around them so as to prevent any other cross-pollination to happen considering she had seen several others working on their projects in various stages.


Tempting as it was so apply a slow acting Growth Charm to both plants to speed the process up - so that she could come back in an hour rather than the next few days to a week - the seventh year refrained. She could be patient, as life had proven, and this needed to happen naturally…


Hopefully it would all work out…


SPOILER!!: the Herbology Journal Entries of Paige S Skeeter

SPOILER!!: week one

Dear Professor Myers,

When I went down to the greenhouses today I was hoping to find my puffpod flower with the beginnings of the plant's double fertilization...but I suppose it was a bit too optimistic to assume that that would occur so quickly. There was plenty of ash-like substance on the adolescent pink flower - only about two feet of its full grown six in height at the moment - which was encouraging. So today was primarily watering and then some good old fashion R & R. I am not sure how either floo plants or puffpods feel about poetry, but I needed a non judgemental audience for some of my latest pieces.

I suppose I should take this opportunity to describe what I hope to be the outcome of this crossbreeding experiment. Given the explosive nature of puffpod seeds and the use of floo flowers, I hope that their genetic makeup mixes in such a way that this cross-pollination will somehow create little pockets of floo powder-like seeds. Meaning that when you drop one of the seeds at your feet and it bursts open, rather than instantly flowering it will instead create a reaction similar to throwing floo powder in a fireplace. The concept may be a bit too fantastical and, seeing as I am only 18 and hardly a professional herbologist, something not within my grasp to achieve just yet...I am optimistic.

But I will have to wait for the puffpod to produce seeds...which is why it was rather tempting to administer a Growth Charm on it before I left. I suppose I was also hoping that the growth would be sped up naturally given some of the magical properties between these two plants, but no such luck. Good things come to those who wait, right? At least I like to keep telling myself that. Has proven to be the case, for the most part, in my personal life at least.

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SPOILER!!: week two

Dear Professor Myers,

Instant panic when I arrived in the greenhouse today. My puffpod usual vivid pink color had turned to more of an ashen pink pastel and the leaves were looking droopy. Not just droopy, but with signs of dehydration despite the soil showing now indication of this to be the case. In fact, the soil was still quite moist, so rather than water I applied a fresh load of mooncalf dung to the soil - which is quite difficult to remove from under one's fingernails, for the record.

The floo flower was looking just fine, however, and showing signs of its initial smouldering process.

I was a bit overly concerned given the dramatic change in appearance in such a short amount of time - I may be writing these entries once a week but I do stop by daily to check on progress - and am rather hoping that it is a result of the pollination process itself. Seeing as most flowers do lose a bit of their brilliant color since they no longer need to attract pollinating suitors. But I cannot help but shake that there is more going on.

Floo flowers are warm and hot to the touch. So I am now concerned that I have overlooked something critical in that, perhaps, puffpods are the sort of flowering plant that is acutely sensitive to heat and extreme sun. The amount of sunlight the puffpod is receiving is nothing outside of the usual norm, so I have decided to repot my floo flower and move it to the other side of the greenhouse in hopes that this will revive my puffpod a little.

Fingers crossed?

Sincerely,



SPOILER!!: week three

Dear Professor Myers,

Over the course of the last week and daily visits to my puffpod, I cannot say with any real certainty that the removal of the floo flower's close proximity has resulted in any truly favorable results. The coloration of the flower remains the same faded pink, but now the leaves of the plant feel waxy rather than brittle - indicating that the plant is now perhaps...cold? Some plants do have that waxy cover to retain heat, after all.

Which is why I moved the floo flower back beside the puffpod and will continue to observe and hope for the best.

I suppose not all is lost, however. A few new branches appear to be sprouting along the stem as the puffpod continues to grow in height. Some of the stems are quite sturdy despite other conditions and I am hopeful that they will produce pods eventually. There are some indications of that...little discolored nubs.

Sincerely,



SPOILER!!: week four

Dear Professor Myers,

Well, here we are at the end of the assignment and it seems as though the cross-pollination has made the puffpod co-dependent on the floo flower...and I am feeling incredibly guilty about that. Seemed like the heat produced by the floo flower is vital for the survival of the puffpod, but the floo flower has most definitely begun to show signs of smouldering...indicating that it soon will turn to ash and when that happens I am not sure the puffpod can continue to survive. Perhaps the influence of the floo flower can be fabricated with heating charms, but I suspect there is a symbiotic relationship in process and that upsets me.

A few seeds have been produced, but the majority lack the hard exterior typically associated with puffpods. They feel a lot like balloons filled with pudding, but when I opened one up it was filled with greenish-yellow powder. Of course, my optimistic assumption is to believe that this is an organic form of floo powder but Brian believes I am being too much of an optimist for that. I do not really have a means of testing to be sure either...and given that this term at Hogwarts has been relatively quiet it is probably in everyone's best interest not to try something that could potentially cause the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes to stop by to clean up my mess.

One seed remained with its firm exterior and I just had a really good feeling about it...a really good feeling about it.

Dropping it on the ground could confirm my original hypothesis...or it could officially give birth to a new plant species seeing as this is finally the official final product of the crossbreeding process in a sense...and while I really want to know what is inside...I cannot bring myself to do it. It just doesn't feel right for some reason. Perhaps because I may have just created a tragic love story between a puffpod and a floo flower and this is the symbol of that bond?

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Carrying her customary wicker basket down to the greenhouses for this extra credit Herbology assignment, Olivia entered the glass building with a smile. The basket, of course, contained her tea supplies (as well as her samples); as she'd hoped to sip on some while getting her work done. There was loads to do, of course, as she was new to cross-breeding. It actually sounded terribly scientific and the Gryffindor could never claim to have that sort of mind. So, some research with her favorite Ravenclaws had been necessary. Casper Greenwood, for one, had probably provided the most intell, as he truly loved Herbology. He'd told her on countless occasions.

Anyway, she'd decided to introduce the Floo Flowers with the Flesh-Eating Fir, which probably seemed unnecessary given that the floo flowers were prone to crumbling to ash before there could really do anything else. Maybe meeting them with the fir would provide an additional layer of self-protection. Perhaps? It was worth a shot, anyway.

Finding a plot to work with, she settled herself right down on the greenhouse floor. First things, first, Liv carefully retrieved her favorite teacup, Chip, from within her basket. Filling it with tea from her thermos, she sipped at if for several moments before digging back into the wicker depths for her flower samples. Professor Myers had suggested that Floo Flowers were similar to the Phoenix, in that they rose from their own ashes. So, she'd collected a pouch of said ashes from the last lesson, as well as her Flesh-Eating Fir spores, and hoped.... something interesting would happen. That's what it was all about at the end of the day, right? Experimenting to get some type of unique reaction...

Time to get to work... which would span over the course of the next several days, but she would need to exercise some patience. These things probably took lots of time and delicate treatment. Olivia struggled with delicate. Ask literally anyone.

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SPOILER!!: Entry One
May 7, 2091; Monday at Noon

Professor, I allowed the Floo Flower ash to germinate the Flesh-Eating Fir spores, but it's been two days and I think I may have done something wrong, so I scrapped it, and went with a different approach. I mean, I wasn't entirely sure what I was doing to begin with, so I sought out some of my more insightful Ravenclaw friends. They mentioned watering and fertilization, but with the Floo Flowers being so ashy and fragile to begin with, I wasn't sure what medium to really implement. In the end, I decided just to fertilize the Fir spores, and let the ash naturally coat them. Sorta like a rub my mother would tenderize meat with.

In order to make sure the process would work, I did some trail and error with a Growth Charm. Not on my actual work that is going to be turned in for credit, but on some tester spores. Just to make sure I'm headed in the right direction. The effect wasn't immediate, of course, but after leaving and returning an hour or so later, there was some activity amongst the ashes. Encouraged that this technique was working, I started over and repeated my steps, leaving the spores to properly grow.

I'll return tomorrow to mark their progress.

- Olivia Phillips

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• With regular soil, the Flesh-Eating Fir spores were were cultivated, being properly hydrated, ashed, and fertilized.
• After preparing the spore, the Floo-Flower ashes were introduced, first mixed into the actual soil, and then sprinkled atop.
• An incendio spell was used to lightly heat the soil, just to make sure the plants environment was properly "warm.
• Additional ashes were sparingly added atop after the plant peeked through the surface.

SPOILER!!: Entry Two
May 8, 2091, Tuesday at Noon

Okay, so not much has happened in the span of twenty-four hours. There was some shifting of the ashes, but I wasn't entirely sure if that was from insects finding their way into my plants or what. Just to be sure, I removed some of the ash content, afraid that I might be suffocating the plant with them? But I suppose it's still early days and it's hard to really say at this point.

Remembering something you said about plants needing love and affection, or that might've been one of my friends who said that (I can't remember), I brought along a book to read to them. My favorite, of course, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I did about two hours of reading, and then hummed a little song for them. I mean, I'm not sure if this is what you had in mind when you mentioned plant TLC, but I improvised, as all theatre children must.

Also, I shifted the pot around so that if could be exposed to more sunlight doing day hours. During my testing phase, this seemed to help, tricking the plants into thinking it was a certain time of the year, etc. You did mention that Floo Flowers only blossom in the Summer days. I'm planning to leave and check back in a week.

- Olivia Phillips


SPOILER!!: Entry Three
May 16, 2091, Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.

We had more success today. After eight uninterrupted days of growth, greenery is peeking through the soil, but they aren't wholly green. It's more of a matte, ashy chartreuse. This has given me some hope, though, as I remember you saying that the plants germinated by the Floo Flowers will take on a few of their qualities and attributes. Also, the soil seemed to be more ashy in consistency. So, I'm not sure what's happening within, but I think somehow the Floo Flower heat, might be burning through the regular soil.

To try and make sure this wasn't going to negatively affect my plants, I scooped out some of the soil and added a bit of fresh? Just to make sure it wasn't going to overpower the Fir plant, since it's not wholly a Floo Flower situation in there. After adding a scant amount of water, I did a bit more reading for the plants. Also, to try and gauge if the sunlight was having a counteractive affect, I turned it away from the sunlight.

It'll try and check back after a few days to see if there's been any further developments, but I have a mountain of homework to do (as well as a ballet thing) and it might take me some time to get back out here.

- Olivia Phillips


SPOILER!!: Entry Four
May 25, 2091, Friday at 5:00 p.m.

Okay, not to alarm anyone, but it's been nine days since I was able to last check on my plants and I have to say, they are probably all the better for it. Though, I'm not going to lie, I was a bit panicked when I came in to check them and noted that they had grown quite a bit. So much so that bits and pieces of the stem seemed to be deteriorated away. Like they were ash. Not to mention that the color seems to be slowly darkening from the matte chartreuse, to a more matte hunter green. I'm sorry, I'm being super specific with color names. That's more of a rich forest color.

Anyway, do you think that instead of lending their attributes, that these ashes might just be transforming the Fir altogether? I mean, I just don't think it's supposed to be deteriorating, but it's kinda confusing because it is growing and getting much bigger. So, thought pieces have flaked off, it's not negativity affecting the growth pattern.

I think to make sure, I'm going to cast a Growth Charm on the plant tonight and check it in the morning to make sure it's doing okay? I mean, this is just for fun, right? Though experimentation is meant to discover things, this isn't supposed to achieve any specific forms... So, a Growth Charm wouldn't technically be cheating. I mean, I did plant more than one spore. I'll cast it on just one of the plants, to kinda achieve a noticeable juxtaposition.

Here hoping I don't cause disaster. I'm super sorry (in advance) if I do, Professor.

- Olivia Phillips


SPOILER!!: Entry Five
May 26, 2091, Saturday at 1:00 p.m.

Professor!!

I came into the greenhouse at 1 p.m, because it's a Saturday and on Saturday mornings, I do extensive ballet practice, and my growth-charmed Flesh-Eating Fir was at full height, and the leaves were black...as well as, dual glowing AND smoldering, but more than what a fireplace smolder would resemble. It was like they had burning moonlight sewn into their very fibers. But what was more alarming, was that the Fir seemed to have some type of strange berries growing along the underside of the leaves. These berries are bight milky white in color, but smell like ash.

Did I just invent something awesome? Or something dangerous?

I've collected several of the berries for your research, in case you'd like to try and do something with them? And I'm also going to be giving a jar to Professor Newton for his personal research, as well. How cool would it be if I just invented a brand new potions ingredient?! My guess would be that the berries could be poisonous, right off the top of my head, seeing as they were born from a Flesh-Eating plant, but then again, I could be wrong. Helpful medicinal things have been known to come from plants like this, right, sir?

If it's okay, I'm going to leave these here, the one fully grown Fir and the still growing plants for your further review. If I truly did invent something, it might be nice to have more samples readily available.

- Olivia Phillips

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