Persimmon Seed “Spoon” Sighting in North Carolina
As many visitors to our site already know, the Persimmon Seed is often cited as a means by which we can predict the upcoming winter weather. Melissa Bunker, Farmers’ Almanac’s “Johnsonville, NC Correspondent,” checked in with this photo of what appears to be a collection of knives and spoons (knife-shaped = “cold and icy”, spoon = “get out your snow shovel”):
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live in pryor, ok…northeast corner of the state. several seeds from different trees….all spoons! better than a knife!
Spoons here in Edmond, Oklahoma and at our farm in Perkins, Ok.
Father in law has cut into the seeds in Shelby County Texas from different trees.. All have showed spoons.. Frosty the Snowman might just be coming our way!
We Have A Spoon In Southern Missouri ( Branson West) We are Going To Go But Our Shovels
I opened three seeds yesterday and yes all three had spoons!
we have a persimmon tree growing in our back yard in Germantown, TN and we had spoons in our seeds as well!!
Spoons in Bullard, Texas!
can anyone tell me if the seeds can be eaten?we got spoons and are wondering if we can put some up?
Just opened one of ours. Its a knife.
Northwest Louisiana
The kids gathered persimmon seeds from the yard and promply because splitting them open. They found a couple of forks and the rest were spoons. We live in NE Georgia.
spoons in Kentucky as well. Let’s hope for no ice this year!
Spoons here in southwest Indiana near Bloomington.
The spork spottting cracked me up!!
WE HAVE SPOONS IN OKLAHOMA TOO!!
I need some help. How do you open them? I have tried and tried with little to no success. Please help! My sixth graders are wanting to do this as a project.
We live in Eastern Oklahoma and I took my 2 granddaughters out this past weekend, Oct. 17, 2009, and we picked about 30 persimmons and cut open 5 to check the seeds. All had spoons. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
My daughter opened persimmon seeds at her school today! They had numerous spoon shapes inside them! We live in Northcentral Arkansas (less than 100 miles to Missouri border)! This was so cool. The teacher let me see how the kids opened the seed and we tried it at home! It worked!
How do you cut a persimmon seed open? I’m having a hard time trying to use a razor blade to do it.
Spoons for us in Northern Mississippi too. This year is first time I’ve heard of this predictor.
We live in Southwest Missouri on Arkansas border…we found spoons today!
I just cut open my persimmon seed and it has a spoon in it. I live in Bloomfield, Missouri. 63825, 150 south of St. Louis ,Missouri.
I have found persimmon seeds in northwest AR that contain spoons also. It would be nice to get lots of snow instead on ice!!
So we cracked some open in southern Missouri and they contained SPORKS!! Can anyone assist with what a spork means?
Spoons found in Arkansas in September 2009
My husband opened a persimmon seed and said that it is in the shape of a spoon. The same as last year. Yikes.
yep, we found spoons in Northeast Texas
Munson, Florida (northwest Florida) wife says they cut open persimmons today and they all had spoons inside – indicating we’ll have to shovel snow according to the old folklore ( that only happens around here once about every 10-15 years).
We have persimmon trees and we look at the seeds ever year. Its spoons for us in Illinois too!
Last year at school we cut open persimmon seeds to predict the winter weather as a science experiment and found all knives. It was interesting to the fourth graders I teach and we predicted a dusting of snow. It came to happen around January and we were all very surprised at our predictions. This year we did the same thing and it was all spoons. My students are very excited and hope it does come true. We would love to have a lot of snow. This is something we rarely get to see in Alabama. Some of my students have never seen more than a dusting of snow. So here’s to the folklore of the persimmon may it snow snow snow!!!!
Someone in S.C. needs to get one of these fancy seeds.
My granddaughter and I opened up two persimmon seeds this evening and we have spoons! Last year we had knife’s and the big ice storm hit! We are in northeast Arkansas.
cool i’ve never seen this before!!!!!!!!
this is so cool I need to go buy a persimmon
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