You have to see it to believe it. A citizen from Booneville, Arkansas, received a mysterious package of seeds from China. Curious to see what they were, he decided to sow the content, despite the ban by the American authorities and the result surprised him, scientists, and other people on social networks.
He ignored the recommendations and the video has been trending on YouTube. The recipients of these packages have been warned by the US Department of Agriculture not to grow their contents.
Doyle Crenshawn, the man who decided to do the “experiment,” recounted in a video posted on YouTube that he had sown the seeds “just to see what would happen. ” He fertilized the soil where he sowed every two weeks, and after germinating, the plants began to grow rapidly. They eventually blossomed and bore pumpkin-like fruit.
Before the US Department of Agriculture issued a warning to the recipients of those packages not to plant them, resident Crenshaw had already done so without knowing what was happening.
For their part, US authorities feared that the seeds were an invasive weed or that they contained some type of pest that affected the local ecology. This due to the problems that exist with the Asian country.
At the end of July, dozens of residents of the United States, as well as Canada and the United Kingdom, reported receiving packages of seeds from China that they had not ordered. Meanwhile, last week the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture identified some of the seeds, but not all, and determined that the plants might not pose any danger. The particular crop sowed by Crenshawn was unidentified by scientists.
According to that agency, the packages could be part of a scam in which a company ships packages to consumers and then writes false positive reviews about the product on behalf of the person who received it. Additionally, some of the packages were mislabeled and indicated that they contained jewelry.
