Weird story, so about 9 years ago we sold our house to a family member, who rented it out. Those renters reached out to them and said that we got a package. We still live in the area so I went and got it from them.
We have no idea what this is, or who sent it. When I search that sku I can’t find much except an article about how Americans are getting sent seeds from China, the return address is from Equatorial Guinea. But even if they are seeds, what are they? Also why?
What you got Lemmy? Maybe put a sarcasm tag on your response if you have a humorous thought. But I really want to know. Google lens thinks they are bugs.
It’s a brushing scam. You’re now going to find that somewhere online, you have left wonderful reviews for their products.
You ought to love humanity. “We are shipping flower seeds halfway across the globe so we have at least some legitimacy to make an online rating marginally better”
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Explain?
He won’t because that’s exactly how it works. They need a successful delivery to be able to boost their own rating with a fake review.
Someone explained it in more detail I this topic, and there’s also a link to the scam warning PSA.
iPhone says that the translation to English is “Grains of rainbow chrysanthemum flower seeds”
Rainbow? They’re gay?? Chinese plot to turn everyone gay??? Ahhhh! (/s)
Used pencil leads.
The Chinese reads that it’s a seed for some type of flower. Unfortunately, I don’t know quite enough Chinese to know what exact type of flower
Looks like rainbow chrysanthemum according to the iOS translate feature.
EDIT: and a Google search explains that “rainbow chrysanthemum” flowers don’t actually exist in a natural form, and seeds claiming to be them are usually just standard chrysanthemum seeds dyed to look different and won’t produce rainbow flowers.
Plant them in the ground so their forms mature
Yep, those are seeds.
Why you got them? The leading theory from a few years ago was sellers getting fake positive reviews on their products by creating alternate accounts, “buying” the product and to fulfill the shipping status just sending some random leaked address a bag of the lightest, most cheap product they could send, just so platforms like AliExpress had an actual transaction completed allowing the review to be posted.
Do not plant foreign seeds or discard them incorrectly. You have no idea what that species is, and you do not want to be the one introducing a new invasive species to your local biome.
Do not plant foreign seeds or discard them incorrectly. You have no idea what that species is, and you do not want to be the one introducing a new invasive species to your local biome
The image isn’t loading for me. What movie/show?
Tom Cruise.
Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
Tom Cruise
Little Shop of Tom Cruise
Fucking awesome. and a while back they finally put out a directors cut with the original ending that, for the longest time, you could only see in shit quality on youtube. Just saw that version a few weeks ago actually.
Waitwhat
It…changes things just a tad.
It does. The cast is timeless. 😱🥰✨
Cooking them relatively briefly would probably take care of it.
Yeah, burn it.
For the curious, here’s a really nice podcast episode on the subject: https://underunderstood.com/podcast/episode/closing-the-loop-on-chinas-mystery-seeds/
Danger Sprinkles!
As other people have mentioned, please don’t plant them. You have no idea what the seeds are and they could be invasive. As for why; no one’s sure, but many people think it’s some kind of weird customer rating scam. Like, they send you seeds and then use your info to make a fake review or something.
This is what’s called a Brushing Scam.
Holy shit there’s really an USPIS??
“Nine-nine!”
Rainbow chrysanthemum flower seeds
According to google translate + OCR on the label.
Trusting labels on mystery seeds is…
Unwise.
Especially as others have noted that this is some weird Chinese algorithm rigging/scam/plot to destroy America?
I didn’t provide any advice as to what to do with them. Simply an English translation of the label and my method of acquiring it.
I don’t think we need any help destroying America as congress is doing a fine job from within, and he could plant these in an isolated pot and see what comes out.
I’m quite surprised it wasn’t seized by customs with how blatantly obviously it contains seeds
Small enough to not get randomly selected for inspection. Too many packages to open and inspect them all; so stuff slips through.
I doubt they declared it as seeds on import.
it does. and there are 2 versions. both are good.
You all are awesome. What’s the best way to dispose of them?
Fire.
Crush up and snort
Trash should be fine. They aren’t going to enjoy the soil at the dump.
Send them to someone random
Make it someone else’s problem, I like it.
Plant them
Do not plant them. You have no idea what the seeds are. The label means nothing. Could be an invasive species.
Burn them.
Feed me Seymour!
Could also be something cool, like sentient fly traps.
The label actually says what they are and they are benign. If you don’t speak the language, why would you say “it doesn’t say anything”?
Back when this first started several years ago a number of the seed packs were found to be mislabeled.
So while it is labeled, OP can have nearly zero confidence that it’s the correct label.
Yes, lets trust the label that a scammer put on a package, seeing as they have been so trustworthy so far!
Burnt Rice
No question. You must be right.
cilia
I prefer flagelli for my tires, personally.
I thought they were hangnails for tires
They help the tires move phlegm from the inner to the outer treads.
I just recently learned!
Go back! Tread not on this dark path, padawan. Learning leads to the dark… places.
