It was all really interesting, this. Or at least, it certainly caught Toby's attention and kept hold of it. He'd been a little later than the others, due to his frankly appalling memory and the fact that this workshop wasn't on the timetable he kept beside his bed. It was only when he wandered into the common room and took a cursory glance at the notice board that he suddenly remembered, but he was here now, racing to take down notes before he tried to catch up. It was cool though; Herbology was the one lesson Toby seemed to have a curious affinity with, and reading about this kind of stuff in his spare time really helped him out.

Toby finally picked up the swab in his gloved hand, flexing his fingers slightly first to make sure he had a decent range of movement, and leaned in a little closer to the orchid. He did as Bentley had said, carefully rubbing the swab against the column of the orchid, and watching closely so he was aware of when it started producing resin. In his other hand he held up a little jar to the lip of the orchid, just like Bentley, and when the resin started oozing out it was already there and collecting it.

Fascinating really. Toby couldn't help but it lean in super close to watch everything that was going on with the orchid. As soon as the surface of the resin solidified, like Bentley said it would, he did just as the professor had instructed and removed the swab from the plant.

Right then, scalpel time. Toby picked up the scalpel at his workstation and leaned closer to the orchid again, very carefully of course, as he didn't want to accidentally decapitate the plant or something.

When it came to actually making this incision, Tobias knew he'd have to be careful. He had a steady hand, sure, but was much more used to large and extravagant movements and flailing rather than tricky little things like this. But that didn't mean he couldn't do it. Tobias veeeeeeeeeeery carefully moved his scalpel closer to the resin and made an incision down the length of it.

That... seemed to do the trick. Right? RIGHT? COOL. Toby set his scalpel down again, looking pretty pleased with himself at his success so far.