 Main Activity Toothless - Napoleon of Crime - Gryffinclaw - Owl Emissary - Pirate Auror - DoctorDonna
Professor Cole circulated around the greenhouse as the students practiced, quietly observing each of their work and ready to assist if they so desired. There was a mix of attempts and confidence in their work as he went, but thankfully none seemed frustrated if they couldn’t get one or the other down pat in their first or second tries. “Well done, Mr. Grunt,” he complemented the lion at his work on the stem and the leaf, the boy seemingly pleased with himself. “That’s it…” he remarked to Mr. Rocker as he worked out the pruning spell’s incantation, the boy getting the tongue twister down. “It’ll become more natural to you with time,” Marcus assured the Hufflepuff.
Making his way entirely around, he left them to a bit more practice as he gathered what was needed for their final activity for the lesson. The plants that normally resided in the current greenhouse were only half of the required plants, some of them the examples of hybridization. The rest had been brought in on the cart he had stashed behind his workstation…personal sized versions of some of the less complicated plants in the other greenhouses, enough for all the students and extras to work with. There were honking daffodils and trilling tulips and color changing roses as well as their mundane counterparts, Abyssinian shivelfigs and flutterby bushes. As well as cloth ties, labeled stakes and markers.
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Eventually satisfied with their practicing, the professor now moved these to the front so they were visible and the students could better retrieve one each. “Now for the rest of the class,” he began, gathering their attention back to him. “I want you to try your hand and creating a hybrid. In plants that usually uses a technique known as grafting.” Marcus took a potted miniature rosebush and brought it before him to demonstrate. “With grafting, you take a host plant like this rose and make a v-shaped cut in its stem,” the professor using a carefully cast diffindo to do so, “careful not to cut all the way through. Then you take a cutting of another plant…” for this he used the trimming charm to take from one of the gravity resistant trees. “Finally you place the cut end of the second sample and insert it in the cut, tying a cloth secure but not too tight around both to keep them together while the plants do their work, merging along the open wounds of sorts.” Then you got to see how the DNA with each plant worked with each other…as long as there wasn’t any adverse reactions.
“So come up and take your beginner plant as well as a cutting of any of the extra plants. You may also take cuttings from the gravity resistant trees, the stubby purple coral and the mandrakes as long as you DO NOT shift the mandrakes from their pots.” One can easily take a cutting from the protruding branches without any problems like unconsciousness or death. "Once you have repeated what I showed you, take a stake and label the two plants you used as well as your name so we can observe the progress of their growth and changes for the rest of term. You may begin.”
ooc: You've made it to the main activity...congrats. Class will end late Monday so feel free to do this multiple posts if you care to. Have fun. Perhaps try more than one graft. Professor Cole is around should your student need help or have questions
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