Ugh, I'm going to be the devil's advocate and argue we don't take the 'Imbuing plants with qualities'.
It looks really tempting, but that'll put us out on everyone's radar. From what I know, it's historically been really important events or powerful beings like gods who create magical plants. Let's get better at other things first so we can defend ourselves, before we out ourselves as having an important ability like that to every monster in the area (plus any spirits or gods or other powerful entities).
Maybe if we're at Camp, we could do this much better and safer. But, alone, with monsters watching us, our Dad unable to see through the Mist or help us, makes this a bad time to yell at everyone we have a rare and useful ability while we are vulnerable.