Zekke nodded at the professor's answer and asked, "If that's the case, then do we need to alter the amount of food we give to the plants since it's getting to be winter?"

He eyed the plants with a critical eye and fed another little cluster of plants as he waited for an answer.

From what he could see, most of the plants were still hampering for food - a lot of food if what he sensed was right - most of the plants except...

"Professor?! Do plants ever... ever..." He swallowed, hard, and set down his flat of plant food somewhere safe and out of the plants' reach.

"Ever eat one another?"

All he could do was stare for a moment at the sight that greeted his eyes in the back of the row. It looked as if a cluster of plants had begun to... to... feed on one of the smaller plants in the cluster. Leaves were shredded and some of the veins were dripping a bit of plant sap.

He quietly sent a quelling charm over the small cluster of plants and levitated that one ravaged plant out of there.

Cradling the plant in his arms, he looked a bit lost and unsure as to what to do.

"It's one of the smaller plants," he commented to no one in particular.