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.
You all are awesome. What’s the best way to dispose of them?
Trash should be fine. They aren’t going to enjoy the soil at the dump.
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.
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”?
Yes, lets trust the label that a scammer put on a package, seeing as they have been so trustworthy so far!
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 zero confidence that it’s the correct label.
Feed me Seymour!
Fire.
Send them to someone random
Make it someone else’s problem, I like it.
Crush up and snort
100 rainbow Chrysanthemum seeds
Might as well plant them then!
Danger Sprinkles!
Used pencil leads.
Yeah, np, OP that says these are 彩虹菊花种子.
Hah!
You’re now a mod of r/Beijing
Maybe I can reverse my own ban…
You’ve been permanently banned from participating r/Beijing.
This is what’s called a Brushing Scam.
Holy shit there’s really an USPIS??
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to get a muff with some bloobs.
“Nine-nine!”
At first glance I thought it was a bag of mouse turds. XD
I thought it might have been some kind of tea
It says 100 Rainbow Chrysanthemum Seeds
Well this is clearly the answer… 😁
All thanks to google translate. My work here is done
Those are the seeds used to grow charcoal briquettes.
/sA N T S
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.
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
I’ve been meaning to rewatch this for a while now. Does it still hold up well?
It does. The cast is timeless. 😱🥰✨
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.
The image isn’t loading for me. What movie/show?
Tom Cruise
Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise.
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/
Cooking them relatively briefly would probably take care of it.
Yeah, burn it.
It’s a brushing scam. You’re not 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”
Nope. Not how it works.
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.
Burnt Rice