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Zellanna · 04-08-2007, 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by lemondrop13

"Will it produce multicolored seeds even before it blooms its own flowers?" Kennedy suggested.

He nodded. "Correct. A point to Ravenclaw."

Erikson pulled out two very small boxes, a lot like the ones the seeds were in, only these were much smaller. "In about a week after these flowers have been properly pollinated, they will seed. The seeds will form on a stalk, and be the color of the flower that the plant will become. Even green! And some very lucky plants do something special. Their seeds..." He opened the boxes and tilted them for the students to see. In one box were seeds that were multicolored... not just an assortment, but each seed was a blend of several colors! In the other were seeds that looked like they were made of pure silver.

"None of the plants you have all planted is purebred. They all have been bred with other colors at some point. Each plant that you have all cross-pollinated have a one in fifty chance of producing a multi-colored seed. Just one. A one in a thousand chance of producing two." He closed the box of multicolored seeds and tucked it away. "The multi-colored seed will produce flowers that are a myriad of colors, and those plants will have a one in a hundred chance of producing one to five silver seeds. A one in a ten-thousand chance of producing any more than that. And these seeds will produce a plant that has flowers of pure silver."

He followed up by getting a plant that had looked like the plain plant he showed them in the first lesson, except the stalks looked straighter and stronger, and the blossoms looked almost like liquid silver.

04-08-2007, 02:37 AM	#210 (permalink)
Zellanna DoM & DERP Knarl Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 9,443 Hogwarts RPG Name: Armand Beta-Erikson Slytherin First Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Damien Beta-Erikson Slytherin First Year	Slytherin by heart Quote: Originally Posted by lemondrop13 "Will it produce multicolored seeds even before it blooms its own flowers?" Kennedy suggested. He nodded. "Correct. A point to Ravenclaw." Erikson pulled out two very small boxes, a lot like the ones the seeds were in, only these were much smaller. "In about a week after these flowers have been properly pollinated, they will seed. The seeds will form on a stalk, and be the color of the flower that the plant will become. Even green! And some very lucky plants do something special. Their seeds..." He opened the boxes and tilted them for the students to see. In one box were seeds that were multicolored... not just an assortment, but each seed was a blend of several colors! In the other were seeds that looked like they were made of pure silver. "None of the plants you have all planted is purebred. They all have been bred with other colors at some point. Each plant that you have all cross-pollinated have a one in fifty chance of producing a multi-colored seed. Just one. A one in a thousand chance of producing two." He closed the box of multicolored seeds and tucked it away. "The multi-colored seed will produce flowers that are a myriad of colors, and those plants will have a one in a hundred chance of producing one to five silver seeds. A one in a ten-thousand chance of producing any more than that. And these seeds will produce a plant that has flowers of pure silver." He followed up by getting a plant that had looked like the plain plant he showed them in the first lesson, except the stalks looked straighter and stronger, and the blossoms looked almost like liquid silver. __________________ Armand and Damien Beta-Erikson Named for Legends