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Default 5. Water the fire seed with boiling water, without drowning it.
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SPOILER!!: task 4
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Aha! There it was. Kurumi walked over to her bucket and picked it up. It was much lighter now that she had put some dirt into the pot earlier. Before adding more, Kurumi peeked inside to make sure that her seed was doing alright and, when she saw that it was a vibrant red color, she picked up her small shovel again and began to fill the remaining space with dirt. Once this was done, Kurumi turned the soil with her fingers and patted it down just a bit.

Kurumi removed her gloves again and felt the outside of her pot to make sure that her spell was still in effect. It WOULD be a bad thing if it wore off during midplanting after all. Feeling that it was still nice and warm, Kurumi left her gloves at her station and headed over towards the shed to retrieve a watering can. Her eyes were more adjusted to the darkness now, which was good, so she wasn't stumbling around nearly as much. Her knee did happen to connect with the edge of one of the tables. Ouch.

Finding an appropriate watering can, Kurumi made her way back to her pot.

Arriving at her pot, Kurumi set her watering can down and removed her wand from her pocket again and pointed it towards the opening. "Aquamenti," she said and a jet of water came out of her wand, filling her can halfway. Repeating the circular wand movement from earlier and cast Chaudensis. She knelt down, hugging her knees to her chest, while she waited for the water to come to a boil. NOW she felt like she was waiting for her cauldron to boil...which depressed her that she was thinking about Potions during Herbology. Even IF the two went hand in hand at times, that didn't make her feel much better.

When she heard the soft tinging of the metal, she knew that the water had come to a boil and she put her gloves back on just in case the entire watering can had been heated. Dropping all that water all over the place would be a disaster. No need to repeat a flooded greenhouse again.

Kurumi performed a few practices on the ground away from her pot. Making sure that she could pour just a little bit of water and stop. Returning her attention to her pot, Kurumi squinted her eyes and brought the soil into focus. Slowly, she tilted the watering can over the pot and the moment she heard a sizzle - which was only about a second or so after she poured, she tilted it back up and set the can down, removing her gloves afterwards and testing the soil briefly. Good, not too damp.

Kurumi quickly wrote her name down on a piece of parchment and attached it to the pot with a Sticking Charm so that she could find the pot more easily later.
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"Once you have finished planting your seed, please move your pot over by those bushes there," she said indicating a particularly dark corner of hedgerows. "Don't be worried if some of the vines come down and try to hug you, like I said earlier they're just a friendly bunch. Once you have done this, and your work space is clean and tidy, you may be dismissed. Have a good day!"
Alright, gloves back on now. Kurumi picked up her pot and hugged it to her chest tightly, allowed it to warm herself, as she waddled over to the bushes as indicated by Professor Bentley. Right...the creepers... Kurumi tried her best to avoid them, but they were rather persistent vines. Once she was able to get away, Kurumi dusted herself off and began to pick up her things.

"Professor Bentley," Kurumi asked glancing back at her pot for a moment. "Do we need to cover them with something? To make sure that everything is dark?" Fireseeds were, as she explained, very VERY sensitive plants and with all of them coming in and out of the greenhouse there was bound to be an excess of light that could make them sick or something.
SPOILER!!: to do

1. Charm pot to heat itself.
2. Fill half of pot up with soil and let it rest for several minutes to warm up.
3. Carefully take a single fire seed with dragon hide gloves and place on top of the soil.
4. Cover fire seed with soil, so that pot is filled. Pat the soil down a little (not too much, you don't want to suffocate it).
5. Water the fire seed with boiling water, without drowning it.


For boiling water, add water (via aguamenti) to the watering can and heat it. This will ensure you 1. control the temperature and 2. don't over water your seed. Use a VERY small amount, simply enough to moisten the soil.
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