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EmailAccording to folklore, you can predict the weather with a persimmon seed. Here's how to do it:
Cut open a persimmon seed. (Find persimmon fruit in your supermarket. It should be locally-grown to reflect your weather.)
Look at the shape of the kernel inside.
- If the kernel is spoon-shaped, lots of heavy, wet snow will fall. Spoon = shovel!
- If it is fork-shaped, you can expect powdery, light snow and a mild winter.
- If the kernel is knife-shaped, expect to be "cut" by icy, cutting winds.
It's best to use ripe seeds.
That's it! Now, what did you see?
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fdollar in South Georgia I
fdollar in South Georgia
I cut the persimmon open and found kife blade in mine. Icy Winds? Just wait and see.
We found spoons. Heavy wet
We found spoons. Heavy wet snow, really?
I cut 6 seeds open yesterday
I cut 6 seeds open yesterday and they all had very defined spoons in them. I picked the persimmons in Parke County, Indiana. I live in Vermillion County which is less than 10 miles from my home.
my mother-in-law cut 3 open 2
my mother-in-law cut 3 open 2 of them had spoons the other had a spoon and a knife so if they are right we here in mccreary county ky. are in for a bad one. and a persimmon grows on a tree
Today in Hudson NC we cut 5
Today in Hudson NC we cut 5 persimmons ALL SPOONS The larger one had a really big spoon so I predict 1 Blizzard in all this snow. I am ready, I can't wait. This held true last year and they are off the same tree so we will see.
2010 Franklin Indiana, I have
2010 Franklin Indiana, I have opened 20 seeds and found ALL to be Spoons. I use channel Lock pliers to squeeze the seeds long ways and the "tip" will pop open.
I came up with three differnt
I came up with three differnt ones last year and the weather has been crazy here
Here in Oklahoma, we cut open
Here in Oklahoma, we cut open ten seeds this year. All were spoons except one, which was a fork. Cutting open the seeds is a little harder than you might expect. A persimmon is a bittersweet fruit that grows on trees in the south.
interresting where do you buy
interresting where do you buy this? is it a pepper
it isn't a pepper it is a
it isn't a pepper it is a tree
you can probably find them at any place that carries landscaping trees or they can tell you where to find them
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