{"id":65742,"date":"2020-08-06T02:56:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T02:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=65742"},"modified":"2020-08-06T02:56:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T02:56:49","slug":"man-plants-mystery-seeds-china-heres-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=65742","title":{"rendered":"Man plants mystery seeds from China \u2014 here\u2019s what happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Arkansas man who received one of the mysterious seed packages sent to thousands of US residents from China planted them on his property \u2014 and said the results are wild.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe \u2026 planted the seeds just to see what would happen,\u2019\u2019 Booneville resident Doyle Crenshawn told local CBS-TV affiliate KSFM.<\/p>\n

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The plant is producing large white fruit from orange flowers that resemble those of a squash.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery two weeks I\u2019d come by and put Miracle-Gro on it, and they just started growing like crazy,\u2019\u2019 Crenshawn said.<\/p>\n

The man planted the seeds before US agriculture officials issued a dire warning to recipients not to put them in the ground, the station said.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cOur concern is from an invasive-pest aspect: These seeds could introduce an invasive weed or an invasive insect pest or a plant disease,\u201d Scott Bray of the Arkansas Department of Agriculture told the outlet.<\/p>\n

US residents in all 50 states reported getting the bizarre, unsolicited seed packages beginning last month.<\/p>\n

The handful of seeds arrive in little sealed clear plastic pouches and are tucked in standard-size light gray or beige envelopes \u2014 sometimes labeled as jewelry.<\/p>\n

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