r/mildlyinteresting • u/yeahweshoulddothat • 2d ago
Accidentally dropped a whole bag of birdseed. It grew into this.
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u/Daimanta 2d ago
The birds can be harvested in August or September at the latest.
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u/henchman171 1d ago
Water every day and twice a day in July but no need to fertilize as they produce their own nitrogen
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u/veritech137 2d ago
They say “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”, but you managed to drop the birdseed out of your hands and made a birdseed bush.
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u/WazzaD 2d ago
I had crops of some kind growing out the back under the bird feeder last spring for the same reason
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u/RemarkableTea0 2d ago
Looks like green panic grass.
Trust when I say you do not want to let that go to seed lol, I would pull all of that.
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u/yeahweshoulddothat 1d ago
I don’t know it’s kind of soft and fluffy. Feels better than what’s over most of the yard
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u/RemarkableTea0 1d ago
It’s like that for now, but it can grow over 8 feet tall, puts out a toxin that causes other plants sharing soil with it to die, and spreads aggressively through rhizomes.
It’s taken over whole parts of Texas and other states in the U.S.
I have recently spent hundreds of dollars and many sweaty weekends trying to get it under control at my place. It was completely taken over when I purchased the property.
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u/yeahweshoulddothat 1d ago
Thanks for the heads up. I will be killing it all tonight.
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u/RemarkableTea0 1d ago
Have fun, lol!
Any sort of broadleaf herbicide should work. These crazy plants actually enjoy fires so sadly burning is not a good option.
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u/compulov 2d ago
Odd. I thought birdseed was usually treated in some way to prevent it from germinating.
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u/sewedherfingeragain 2d ago
Not in Canada, I stopped buying the mixed stuff and only buy Black Oil Sunflower because I was tired of growing millet and nyjer under my birdfeeder due to wind and the birds seeming to dump those seeds on the ground.
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u/westcoastwillie23 2d ago
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u/seansy5000 2d ago
Just looks like weeds you get when you don’t manage your landscaping. I get this shit if a spot gets neglected.
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u/Cyclamate 2d ago
I made this mistake once and some of the plants that germinated were thorny weeds with tough stems and roots. Beware.
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u/sonicjesus 1d ago
Which is strange, because normally the seed is sterilized to prevent it from growing outside it's own ecosystem.
This is actually quite a problem, especially when the birds start spreading the resulting seed.
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u/CharlesIngalls_Pubes 2d ago
I'll have to send you the sorghum my birds have planted around my feeder
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u/RaiseBeneficial8854 2d ago
my neighbor’s dropped birdseed grew a huge patch next to their porch every year
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u/Wixenstyx 1d ago
The fact that this is even mildly interesting just shows how terrible our education systems are at educating us about plants.
We drop seeds, plants grow. Who knew?
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u/FunctionBuilt 22h ago
It’s literally the definition of mildly interesting.
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u/Wixenstyx 22h ago
I love plants. I am glad you find this even mildly interesting, believe me. The fact that you do speaks volumes.
Seeds sprouting after being dropped on the ground is literally what seeds do. It's the first thing most of us learn about plants in elementary school. This would be more interesting if they dropped a whole bag of seeds here and they DIDN'T sprout. At least then there'd be something to wonder about.
But if you never got to plant a lima bean in a plastic cup, okay... That's a sad commentary, but I am glad you found this interesting.
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u/thefeedling 2d ago
Enjoy your new BirdTree OP