Last week after a post from Alidar Moxie I hopped over to XStreet and ordered a Seymour of my very own. Seymour is a virtual plant, that begins as a seed which is planted, watered (if you’re the responsible sort), and grows to form a unique species of flower. Seymour plants also post status messages to a plurk or twitter account to keep you apprised of its status during the blooming process (It also had the added benefit of boosting my karma at plurk, as the posting interval of my Seymour plant seemed to please the karma gods). You have to water your Seymour, you can purchase water at the reasonable price of L$10 per watering from one of the Seymour Supply Vendors available on XStreet.

So I planted my seed and dubbed him Stanely Seymour – and decided to document his growth during the 4 days it took the flower to bloom.

Stanley Seymour - A seed is planted

Stanley Seymour's ground leaves have sprout

Stanley Seymour's stem has sprouted.

Stanley Seymour's stem has grown leaves

Stanley Seymour's has got a nifty flower!

After my flower had been created i was given the opportunity to name the species. I dubbed it Fiannicus Catarina and it gave me a seed that I can now gift to a friend so that the species can carry on.