Interesting phenomena for the collective mind to chew upon. I had made several Large Flower Pots, partly for the quest, and partly because the quest said: "you don't want to put your dirt straight on the ground, use the flower pots, it looks better." Because of the contours around my base, I had a small plot that they were just perfect for. My intent was to grow the 4 types elemental seeds there so I filled them with garden soil and tilled away. I tried to put crop sticks in and the pots would not accept them. "Hmm," thinks the slow, stubborn (dumb) Dragon, "what happens if I just plant the seeds?" Put in all 4 10-10-10 air seeds, they sat there for a bit, absorbing magical characters from the the air, and then the seeds popped out of the ground. They now have a meta-data of :3, no longer show as 10-10-10, cannot be placed in the seed analyzer, and cannot be planted on regular crop sticks.
Any thoughts on how to salvage/avoid future repetitions are welcome. Meanwhile, my pots are coming out and going to gather dust in the deepest storeroom (think: resting place of the Ark of the Covenant at the end of the first Indiana Jones movie) and the Agricultural Research boys are breeding another set of 10-10-10 air seeds. The Dragon is pointedly NOT noticing the dark grumblings coming from said Research Station!
YH&OS