What are they and how did I get them ?

sprucebunny · October 01, 2006, 02:06:33 PM

A slightly weird whatsit ;D

What are these seeds and how did I get them all ??? First correct guess can have half of them :D

Paul_H · October 01, 2006, 02:10:36 PM

I don't know what they are but I'll guess that you got them off of a Squirrell at gunpoint

ducknutt · October 01, 2006, 02:15:39 PM

palmagranite...and you spit the seeds out?

sawguy21 · October 01, 2006, 03:15:32 PM

Paul, I just made a mess on the keyboard. :D :D :D

SwampDonkey · October 01, 2006, 03:52:08 PM

I wish I could see closer, but I think sprucebunny was busy collecting fir cones before they got super dry. But, and this is why I need to see close, if they have no attached seed wing they are not fir. Balsam fir seed wing has to be mechanically removed in the extraction process. ;) Anyway, to continue with the process... She hung them in burlap and dried the fir cones good until they disintegrated (fell apart) and she thrashed them somehow, maybe by tumbling to get the small seed separated from the large bracts of the cones. Now she has collected the seed. This year there is alot of seed on fir. If the seed are spruce or pine or tamarack or hemlock the procedure is similar, only the cones don't fall apart, they just open up with a good drying. I'm thinking it might be white pine seed after seeing those brown needles in between the dishes. :D :D

Am I close? ;D You got homes for all that seed? ???

sprucebunny · October 01, 2006, 04:38:32 PM

:D :D :D Paul ... very good guess ;D

And SD is close also ;D

All the clues you need are in the picture.

And here's your closeup, SD smiley_paparazzi

Texas Ranger · October 01, 2006, 05:26:10 PM

Beggar lice off your britches and dogs, and you can keep my half.

SwampDonkey · October 01, 2006, 05:33:54 PM

I dunno, but looks 'spicious. I think she went to the seed centre and bought a sac-o-seed (fir) and just dipped them dishes in the fir seed bag. Sure the right shape for fir. Somebody removed the seed wings too. :D :D . ;D

I think she's going to raise fir seedlings for local Christmas tree growers. 8)

Erm, too big for balsam fir seed eh? hmmm, got me. ;)

Tom · October 01, 2006, 05:51:11 PM

Looks kinda like apple seeds to me. You making cider, Spruce Bunny?

SwampDonkey · October 01, 2006, 05:56:19 PM

Kind of Tom, but not really. I'm sure they ain't balsam fir either, I was fun'n. They look bigger even than most grains I've seen also. Hmm, she's got us stumped. ;)

SwampDonkey · October 01, 2006, 05:57:53 PM

Oh I know! Some kind of organically grown popping corn. ;D

SwampDonkey · October 01, 2006, 06:00:48 PM

mmm, I can smell a bag of fresh popping corn comin my way. 8) 8) 8) Toot toot :D

Tom · October 01, 2006, 06:10:41 PM

well, I know what it isn't. It isn't coconuts. Unless somebody hybridized a bunch of trees for munchkins. :P

Timburr · October 01, 2006, 06:17:39 PM

You first pic. looks like fly seeds to me, for casting out to hungry fish :D

pigman · October 01, 2006, 06:39:51 PM

Looks like dock seed. You got it from your dock patch. ;)
Bob

Tom · October 01, 2006, 07:15:48 PM

The first picture has a conifer needle bundle next to the pans. If that is a hint, then it is some kind of conifer. The newspaper may be a hint, but I don't know what it would be. the sack might be a hint, but the only thing I can see it being used for would be containing cones that the seed was being shaken or beat from.

The second picture has seeds. The only other thing I see that might be a hint is the wood grain (if that is what it is) of the surface beneath the paper. I'm puzzled.

SwampDonkey · October 01, 2006, 07:24:07 PM

Ah, they are white ash seeds. Now she's been busy. :D Is that a white ash board? It looks ring porous.

Modat22 · October 01, 2006, 07:24:21 PM

Are those the seeds that are harvested by letting goats eat the fruit off trees then collecting the waste for the seed then pressing the seed into an oil?? ???

SwampDonkey · October 01, 2006, 07:27:31 PM

I didn't dare mention she was pokin critter poop with a stick to get the seeds. :D

Radar67 · October 01, 2006, 07:44:58 PM

Tom, that might explain the newspaper. :D

Stew

sprucebunny · October 01, 2006, 08:33:46 PM

Well, I've done some strange things but pokin critter poop to get seeds ain't one of them :D

And it's too cold for coconuts here.

Bob, if I found some dock seed could I grow a dock ??? Great !!!! Now I need a pond ;D

This picture may give you more clues but like I said to begin with; this is a little weird :D

Dan_Shade · October 01, 2006, 10:21:49 PM

you're not grooming the porcupines, are you?

beenthere · October 01, 2006, 10:39:42 PM

Pickin up paw paws?

pigman · October 01, 2006, 10:54:44 PM

Quote from: sprucebunny on October 01, 2006, 08:33:46 PM

Bob, if I found some dock seed could I grow a dock ??? Great !!!! Now I need a pond ;D

I guess I was not correct in my guess. ;)
Now Joan, I thought everyone had heard of dock, also called burdock :P The seed do look just like the ones you have pictured.
dock : any of a genus (Rumex) of the buckwheat family of coarse weedy plants.
Bob

sprucebunny · October 01, 2006, 11:13:12 PM

:D No porkypines, Dan.

This is the scene of the incident. The black fabric in the other pics is geo-textile that I'm using for an outdoor carpet next to my little camper ;D

SwampDonkey, you were so close to identifing the seeds. You should look at them again ;)

Bob, you're right about the seeds resembling seeds of the buckwheat family. Is burdock what we call 'burrs' ? The size of a marble, velcro bush ???