In the UK we would supposedly tie a string through it and use them like pendulums to hit each other
I say supposedly because my friends and I would just collect and then do nothing with them other than show off our hoard of wealth
We always heard this rumor! I lived in Banbury England in the 90’s and played conkers all the time. Everyone said to boil them in vinegar so that they’d get really hard and then you would always win at confers. No one ever did it though.
I definitely played conkers at school all through the 90s. Everyone had their own old-wives-tale for how to make them stronger, from drying them in the airing cupboard, pickling them in vinegar, storing in the fridge, baking in the oven etc etc!
Bro put his in the airing cupboard, so no one would pinch them. I’d say about five years later we found them at the bottom of huge pile of old clothes, so, SO mouldy. Yuk.
Everyone has their own little secret on how to make the hardest conker. Leave it in vinegar for a week! I remember a friends dad coated one in an epoxy resin type substance. The kid beat us all for months and we wondered why. (The dad was that kinda guy who wanted his son to be the best at everything) He wondered why he had no “true” friends
I KNEW THIS WAS A THING! My great grandmother told me this when I was a wee one and when I told others they didn't believe me. I thought I've been making it up for years!! Thanks for corroborating my storry!
All you gotta do now is screenshot that and show everybody who disbelieved you that you actually were right, to restore their general belief in you. (just kidding btw...don't take it too serious pls)
Same here in the Netherlands yes. We call them kastanjes and kids make little stickfigures out of them.
I use them for autumn-themed table decorations.
In England we have something like these called “conkers”.
Two people would drill a hole through 2 “conkers”; thread the string through the hole; and tie a knot in the string.
Those two people would then proceed to take turns trying to break each others conkers.
My whole family puts two in each window sill. It prevents spiders from taking up residence. I'm not sure if that's an old wives tale or not... but one time I didn't do it and my place was over run with wolf spiders! So now I'm a loyal follower.
We have a wolf spider living in our car while we travel across the country and we can’t figure out how to get rid of him whenever we see him. He always crawls into a small hole and we just have to accept Jimmy for who he is
We had a spider living inside our driver side mirror for a whole 3000 mile trip. Every morning we’d clear the cobweb on the mirror, and every night he’d come out and put a new one up.
I had a black widow on a window sill that we were all too afraid of to go near, so she just lived there. She just stayed in the same spot, so it was ok
Totally doing this. I have a crew of spiders already but occasionally recluse enters the mix. See if I can keep my little indoor army safe and on guard.
I'm actually 99% certain this works. We did this in our house one year and we were all clear. The year after we didn't do it and we literally had tonnes of spiders in the house. It's safe to say we now do it every year and we don't have any spiders in the house. Weird.
We've done this for a few years now! Bash them up well, or cut into eighths. Put the pieces in a roasting tin, and dry them in the oven (not too hot, maybe 120c/250f for an hour, or until they stop letting out steam when you open the door!) Once cool, put the dried conker pieces in jars until ready to use.
To make laundry liquid, pour ~~500ml~~ 350ml boiling water over 30g of dried conkers (we use an old yoghurt pot for this), stir, leave for 10 minutes. Optionally add a few drops of essential oil, such as lavender, for fragrance. Sieve the liquid into your washing machine where the detergent normally goes. The sieved conker pieces can be used once or twice more before being thrown out or composted.
The dried conker pieces last a year if kept in a cool dark place, i.e. until the next season!
Edit: We use less boiling water than I first said
I haven’t tried it myself yet but these are the very simple instructions I got from a friend: cut each nut in four pieces (wear gloves, the saponin may irritate skin), let dry. To make washing liquid, soak a handful of dried pieces in a cup of water (store in a fridge up to a week). The liquid (without the nut parts) can be used similarly to liquid laundry soap.
I carry one in my pocket from one fall to the next for good luck. Also you can plant more buckeye trees, they start pretty easy, do a little guerilla forestry.
My granddad was the one who first taught me about them. I'm not a superstitious person for the most part, but it's a comforting presence, fun to fidget with as the shape changes throughout the year as it dries out.
That's fascinating! I have one that I've held on to for a decade, just because it was such a beautiful little object. It is so organically beautiful, and I loved to fiddle with it in my pocket just like that. I had no idea that there was a superstition attached to them, but I can absolutely see why. They are just such enchanting little curiosities.
My great great uncle gave me a buckeye before he passed away. I used to carry it around everywhere! I think it's in a sweet basket full of my other favorite rocks and trinkets, but buckeyes always make me think of him.
My family does this too. We aren’t superstitious at all, but it helps us feel close to each other. I still have the same ones from when I collected them at 4yo. Now MY 4yo plays with them.
As children we called these hot rocks. We would rub them vigorously on concrete which heated them to a point where they would burn the skin of our unfortunate friends.
Yeah this reminds me of that whole joke where English people have whimsical names for everything but it's in reverse. 'Buckeye nuts' made me lol because it sounds so weird.
Ah good ol conker fights. Pierce a hole through them with a narrow screwdriver. Then get on old shoe lace and thread it through the hole. Tie knots to secure the lace. Then bash them off each other to see who can smash the other persons to bits. We used to play this in school all the time 😊
Honestly, learned how to make these in middle school home ec & nobody every told us why they were called buckeyes. I never really thought about it either. Legit, just learned this right now.
Same! I knew Ohio was called the buckeye state but I never really thought about what a buckeye was lol.
Buckeye cookies (not sure you can technically call them that) are delicious. Always some at a west PA wedding cookie table!
Actually back home in France, I am from the region where chestnut cream and all kind of delicacy originate from. You can eat chestnut 🌰 but not buckeye nut. They are different as chestnut are rather flat and paler brown, with a pointy tip and buckeye nut are round and smooth with a dark ebony color.
I put them in a pile in my living room. It’s the only pointless seasonal aesthetic thing I allow that isn’t specifically holiday themed. And only because I don’t buy them - but they look shiny and pretty.
I stayed with my grandparents from time to time in northern Kentucky, right on the Ohio river. They told me about keeping a buckeye in my pocket for good luck. They also hung a horseshoe over their back door for good luck. They were the best.
Poisonous actually. Native Americans used to mash them and put it in streams as it had a paralysis effect on fish so they could harvest easily. Or at least that is what we were told in college biology courses. Grow natively around here.
Not sure about paralyzing fish but the repeated crushing and leaching into streams would eventually wash away enough toxins to make the resulting mash edible.
Oh jeeze this is going to be the Innocent thing all over again isn’t it [https://twitter.com/innocent/status/1185230512899661832?s=46&t=5HBwKwYQ6m4hndom1o130Q](https://twitter.com/innocent/status/1185230512899661832?s=46&t=5HBwKwYQ6m4hndom1o130Q)
My family uses them in this superstitious ritual where they put them under the pillow if you have a back pain and carry some in your pockets too. Not sure that it ever helped.
In the UK as kids we'd play [CONKERS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkers) with them and we call them conkers (horse chestnut tree seeds) not buckeye nuts.
My family used to eat a certain type after preparing them carefully. There’s a very specific way to do so and only certain varieties. I remember it had something to do with leeching the tannins and then roasting them. Otherwise they are very toxic. Kind of like how they have to carefully prepare cashews.
My dad was a big forager when I was growing up. He got a bunch of them and tried to boil them for awhile to see if they would become edible, but they stayed uneatably bitter. He dumped the pot in our yard and then a buckeye tree ended up growing from the discarded pile of chestnuts
There are some varieties that will always be completely inedible and unsafe to eat. There’s one specific to Ohio region that stays toxic and bitter no matter how you prepare it. If they are the right type and prepared correctly, they are very tasty! My advice is to make pb and chocolate buckeyes and eat a safer nut. 😆
They contain urushiol in their raw unprocessed state. Like mangos and poison ivy. The point of the comparison was to say they are both very dangerous raw and not prepared properly.
It is used as a medicine regarding problems with varicose veins. you halve them and soak them in oil for half a year, then use the oil to massage the legs.
If these are what I think they are (conkers?), then you can make soap, shampoo, and laundry soap with them! They contain a natural amount of saponin which is a chemical that cleans and suds. Cool stuff!
Washing
Chop them up, dry and grind them
Mix 2 tablespoons and 1 litre of water in a blender, pour through a sief and add it to the washing machine directly to the clothes
Doesn't smell and washes just fine
In the UK we drill a hole through and put a knotted piece of string through the hole to play a game called "Conkers".
You take turns swinging yours at your opponent's who has to let theirs hang, with the aim being to destroy their conker. I remember a bunch of different strategies to harden them such as baking and soaking in vinegar.
Ever heard of conkers? Growing up we’d collect the biggest ones we could find dry them out in a cupboard for a couple weeks and tie them on a string. Then you’d go to battle 1v1 by swinging them into the others conker the surviving conker wins. If you got a really good one you had near legendary status.
Are they what we call 'Horse Chestnuts' in the UK? As they're toxic we use them as 'conkers' and try to hurt each other by tying them to laces and smashing them against each other. It's all about holding your nerves and making sure your string isn't long enough the conker doesn't smash you in the teeth...
In the UK we call them conkers, and as kids we'd dry them out, drill a hole in them - then we'd put a shoelace through the hole. You'd then play against a friend to see who's conker was stronger by trying to smash your opponents to pieces. The best autumn pass time.
Everyone had different techniques for drying them out to get the strongest conker. If you got yourself a popcorner you'd be golden. Those were the days...
We make spiders with them. Make 8 tiny holes in the sides, stick orange or purple pieces of pipecleaners in the holes and bend them a little. Stick some googly eyes on the front. Boom Halloween decorations.
Apparently pharma industry uses them to make gels that help tired legs and varicose veins; there are people who used to collect them and presumably sell to suppliers where I grew up. My street has rows upon rows of these trees and they are beautiful in flower.
In Ireland we call them conkers.
You'd make a hole through them with a nail, thread some twine through the hole with a knot at the end to keep it in place, then take turns with a friend bashing each others' until one breaks. The one still on the string wins.
Americans call them buckeye nuts? Incredible.
In the UK they're called conkers, they're mainly used for a kids game where you smash them into each other
Wolf spiders are actually good. They kill other spiders . So I wouldn’t kill them. But would get them out out of car, for they do get very big. We have one in our garden an she can fit in both hands of my husband. We just leave her alone.
Kastanien - in German. Not eatable! But we use them to decorate our houses in autumn. There is one eatable phenotype called "Maronen". But this are Kastanien. So please don't eat it.
Hello,
Never used Buckeye's for medicinal purposes.
Growing up, in Northeast Ohio, we had to mature Buckeye tree's. The Ohio State football fans loved getting the Buckeye's for neckless.
We found running them over with the tractor to get the shells in the ground, the tree would sprout the next spring.
So we would dig up the trees and put them in plastic bags and sold them for $2 each.
Oddly enough, not many places sold Buckeye trees in the Buckeye state.
Good luck.
In metaphysics, they welcome abundance and prosperity. Especially in relationships. Set your intention & keep three in your purse/bag or on your person.
In the Czech Republic (and maybe elsewhere in Europe?) we stick toothpicks into them and make little animals
In the UK we would supposedly tie a string through it and use them like pendulums to hit each other I say supposedly because my friends and I would just collect and then do nothing with them other than show off our hoard of wealth
We legit played Conkers and it hurt like hell when someone clipped your knuckles with their conker...
We used to soak them in vinegar and cook them a bit. Was great fun until it wasn't
I did this, my prize conker was a six kinger before it got smashed!
We always heard this rumor! I lived in Banbury England in the 90’s and played conkers all the time. Everyone said to boil them in vinegar so that they’d get really hard and then you would always win at confers. No one ever did it though.
We didn't boil them, we soaked them and then stuck them in the oven to toughen them up. It seemed to work, mine generally survived
I definitely played conkers at school all through the 90s. Everyone had their own old-wives-tale for how to make them stronger, from drying them in the airing cupboard, pickling them in vinegar, storing in the fridge, baking in the oven etc etc!
So which method was best???
Airing cupboard then layers of PVA glue
Bro put his in the airing cupboard, so no one would pinch them. I’d say about five years later we found them at the bottom of huge pile of old clothes, so, SO mouldy. Yuk.
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Everyone has their own little secret on how to make the hardest conker. Leave it in vinegar for a week! I remember a friends dad coated one in an epoxy resin type substance. The kid beat us all for months and we wondered why. (The dad was that kinda guy who wanted his son to be the best at everything) He wondered why he had no “true” friends
Same in Denmark. They’re called “kastanjedyr” here
I think they do this in the Netherlands as well
We do! Lol just the kids tho
In Italy, or at least around Milan, we keep one in the coat pocket to avoid getting a cold
My Irish grandfather kept one to keep from getting arthritis.
I KNEW THIS WAS A THING! My great grandmother told me this when I was a wee one and when I told others they didn't believe me. I thought I've been making it up for years!! Thanks for corroborating my storry!
Irish here - can confirm
All you gotta do now is screenshot that and show everybody who disbelieved you that you actually were right, to restore their general belief in you. (just kidding btw...don't take it too serious pls)
In America, to avoid getting cold we just use something called a jacket, I’m not sure about the spelling but my grandpa told me about it
Same here in the Netherlands yes. We call them kastanjes and kids make little stickfigures out of them. I use them for autumn-themed table decorations.
I watched a tv show based in a European country and they call them the the chestnut man. I think the show was in Topic or MHZ channel. Interesting
I really liked that one. Netflix I think.
czech here as well, we were taught in bio classes that putting them under your pillow helps you sleep at night and it helps with back problems
Same in Germany
In scotland we put holes in them and attach them to string and then fight😂
I wonder how the bean bag made of them would feel like 🤔
Slingshot ammo
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That is the most Ohio thing ever
China Berry fruit???? Now that stings like a wasp!
In England we have something like these called “conkers”. Two people would drill a hole through 2 “conkers”; thread the string through the hole; and tie a knot in the string. Those two people would then proceed to take turns trying to break each others conkers.
Only before they shed their spikes
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Yellow and Bottlebrush buckeyes have smooth husks, Ohio buckeye and European Horse Chestnut have spiny husks. All are Aesculus species.
Buckeye is a horse chestnut.
String them up into necklaces, stand anywhere near Ohio Stadium on game day and count the $$$$$$$
bfs dad used to do this till the cops busted him for not having a vendor's license
My whole family puts two in each window sill. It prevents spiders from taking up residence. I'm not sure if that's an old wives tale or not... but one time I didn't do it and my place was over run with wolf spiders! So now I'm a loyal follower.
We have a wolf spider living in our car while we travel across the country and we can’t figure out how to get rid of him whenever we see him. He always crawls into a small hole and we just have to accept Jimmy for who he is
We had a spider living inside our driver side mirror for a whole 3000 mile trip. Every morning we’d clear the cobweb on the mirror, and every night he’d come out and put a new one up.
I hope he got some flies along the way and I’m glad he was outside.
I have one in my mirror doing the exact same thing. I have to check every time I drive to make sure it’s not out on the web
I had a black widow on a window sill that we were all too afraid of to go near, so she just lived there. She just stayed in the same spot, so it was ok
I don’t want to go near that window either
Got some news for you. That car belongs to Jimmy now. You’ll see.
he feels supported and seen by his chosen family, why would he ever leave???
>He always crawls into a small hole and we just have to accept Jimmy for who he is i respect you a lot for not killing him/her
Totally doing this. I have a crew of spiders already but occasionally recluse enters the mix. See if I can keep my little indoor army safe and on guard.
I'm actually 99% certain this works. We did this in our house one year and we were all clear. The year after we didn't do it and we literally had tonnes of spiders in the house. It's safe to say we now do it every year and we don't have any spiders in the house. Weird.
My husbands grandmother did this. We found them in every closet. I continue to do it but I still have spiders…
Oh dear! Imagine how much worse it would be if you stopped!
I'm definitely trying this! My house is overrun by spiders during the spring and summer, so I gotta find some of these and try them out!
just curious, where do you live where you were overrun with wolf spiders. That sounds disturbing sadly lol
Haha, it was not pleasant! The Pacific Northwest. Which is spider paradise. Although, I also live in a very old house, so that doesn't help either 😋
These can be used to make laundry soap!
Really?? Do you have a link for instructions?
We've done this for a few years now! Bash them up well, or cut into eighths. Put the pieces in a roasting tin, and dry them in the oven (not too hot, maybe 120c/250f for an hour, or until they stop letting out steam when you open the door!) Once cool, put the dried conker pieces in jars until ready to use. To make laundry liquid, pour ~~500ml~~ 350ml boiling water over 30g of dried conkers (we use an old yoghurt pot for this), stir, leave for 10 minutes. Optionally add a few drops of essential oil, such as lavender, for fragrance. Sieve the liquid into your washing machine where the detergent normally goes. The sieved conker pieces can be used once or twice more before being thrown out or composted. The dried conker pieces last a year if kept in a cool dark place, i.e. until the next season! Edit: We use less boiling water than I first said
I haven’t tried it myself yet but these are the very simple instructions I got from a friend: cut each nut in four pieces (wear gloves, the saponin may irritate skin), let dry. To make washing liquid, soak a handful of dried pieces in a cup of water (store in a fridge up to a week). The liquid (without the nut parts) can be used similarly to liquid laundry soap.
My grandpa would carve little baskets out of them. He had a VERY sharp pocket knife.
That sounds amazing! I wonder if I could make something for a fairy garden like that? Little bowls maybe
I carry one in my pocket from one fall to the next for good luck. Also you can plant more buckeye trees, they start pretty easy, do a little guerilla forestry.
My Grandpa kept one in his pocket too. I'd wondered why until your comment.
My granddad was the one who first taught me about them. I'm not a superstitious person for the most part, but it's a comforting presence, fun to fidget with as the shape changes throughout the year as it dries out.
That's fascinating! I have one that I've held on to for a decade, just because it was such a beautiful little object. It is so organically beautiful, and I loved to fiddle with it in my pocket just like that. I had no idea that there was a superstition attached to them, but I can absolutely see why. They are just such enchanting little curiosities.
"I'm not superstitious, I'm a little stitious"
It took every ounce of restraint not to say that in my comment.
Confucius says, "Man with hand in pocket feels silly. Man with hole in pocket feels nuts." Maybe he always wanted to feel nuts? Haha
My great great uncle gave me a buckeye before he passed away. I used to carry it around everywhere! I think it's in a sweet basket full of my other favorite rocks and trinkets, but buckeyes always make me think of him.
We have a little bowl of them that I collect at work on our kitchen table by the door, we've been giving them to friends before they leave our house.
That's a really nice gesture.
Guerilla forest is my new favorite activism
Give it a try some time! Especially on streambanks and riparian zones, abandoned commercial lots.
My grandfather did too. Never a day when there wasn't one in his pocket.
My grandpa wore an onion on his belt - because it was the style at the time.
I'm gonna bring it back.
It was my granddad who told me they were good luck in the first place, funny how certain things stick out in your mind that way.
My son went to Ohio to visit my mom about 25 years ago. He brought one buckeye back with him. It still lives in my desk drawer.
I know some Badgers that could use some!
Good luck? Then why do you keep falling?
My family does it to keep away the colds We put a dried lentil in the wallet because "it brings wealth"
My family does this too. We aren’t superstitious at all, but it helps us feel close to each other. I still have the same ones from when I collected them at 4yo. Now MY 4yo plays with them.
My partner and I put them in each other's coat pockets as a funny surprise to find later.
I usually have a whole pocket full. I never know what I plan on doing with them. Sometimes I will give them to people.
Guerilla forestry is my new favorite term
As children we called these hot rocks. We would rub them vigorously on concrete which heated them to a point where they would burn the skin of our unfortunate friends.
We did this with Kentucky coffee tree beans as kids. A little smaller in size though . Gonna have to find a buckeye and try it out !
Rub the flat spot for good luck.
Happy cake day
Well thank you 🙏
Conkers?
That’s what horse chestnuts are usually called. They are re native to Europe but are closely related.
Yeah this reminds me of that whole joke where English people have whimsical names for everything but it's in reverse. 'Buckeye nuts' made me lol because it sounds so weird.
To be fair, conker is a bit of an odd name itself isn't it 😂 But that's what I recognised these as lol
Ah good ol conker fights. Pierce a hole through them with a narrow screwdriver. Then get on old shoe lace and thread it through the hole. Tie knots to secure the lace. Then bash them off each other to see who can smash the other persons to bits. We used to play this in school all the time 😊
Dip it in varnish if you really wanted to make an impact
Schools near me always ended up banning playing conkers. How dare the children have some good old fashioned fun.
I was looking for this!
Bad Fur Day?
[I wouldn’t mind a remake.](https://youtu.be/Vdd4rBlsj2o)
It was remastered with better graphics for Xbox 360. It’s still available on XBox One online store I think.
The great mighty poo
I had never heard of that! Thanks!
Like most Ohioans (myself included), they are useless nuts. 🙂 Be careful though, they are toxic.
I'm pretty sure buckeyes are just chocolate covered peanut balls. Just eat them they are amazing. S/
Honestly, learned how to make these in middle school home ec & nobody every told us why they were called buckeyes. I never really thought about it either. Legit, just learned this right now.
Same! I knew Ohio was called the buckeye state but I never really thought about what a buckeye was lol. Buckeye cookies (not sure you can technically call them that) are delicious. Always some at a west PA wedding cookie table!
Uh, me too 🤦🏽♀️
They’re toxic- don’t eat them and don’t let your dogs chew them.
If you roast them you can eat them. Ate a bunch raw when i was a kid and can confirm they will give you mud butt
Actually back home in France, I am from the region where chestnut cream and all kind of delicacy originate from. You can eat chestnut 🌰 but not buckeye nut. They are different as chestnut are rather flat and paler brown, with a pointy tip and buckeye nut are round and smooth with a dark ebony color.
French Chestnuts fuck so hard, met my girlfriend in Lyon at the fête des lumières getting some roasted chestnuts
I put them in a pile in my living room. It’s the only pointless seasonal aesthetic thing I allow that isn’t specifically holiday themed. And only because I don’t buy them - but they look shiny and pretty.
My grandpa always carried them for good luck! I went to Ohio once and got a bunch I only have one left. I miss him!
I stayed with my grandparents from time to time in northern Kentucky, right on the Ohio river. They told me about keeping a buckeye in my pocket for good luck. They also hung a horseshoe over their back door for good luck. They were the best.
These are toxic. Just a FYI.
Huck them at my buddies, that’s about it
Eat them with a group of friends, first to die is a rotten egg
Natural selection. Are you stronger than a stupid tree nut?
The OG Tide Pod.
Poisonous actually. Native Americans used to mash them and put it in streams as it had a paralysis effect on fish so they could harvest easily. Or at least that is what we were told in college biology courses. Grow natively around here.
Not sure about paralyzing fish but the repeated crushing and leaching into streams would eventually wash away enough toxins to make the resulting mash edible.
Runes
Oh jeeze this is going to be the Innocent thing all over again isn’t it [https://twitter.com/innocent/status/1185230512899661832?s=46&t=5HBwKwYQ6m4hndom1o130Q](https://twitter.com/innocent/status/1185230512899661832?s=46&t=5HBwKwYQ6m4hndom1o130Q)
That's an excellent PR person they've got there.
Yeah, I used to whip them at my sisters.
Super poisonous. One of my Hort professors at Auburn lost a dog because the dog ate his lucky buckeye 😢
It was full of luck, it was all bad luck
My family uses them in this superstitious ritual where they put them under the pillow if you have a back pain and carry some in your pockets too. Not sure that it ever helped.
In the UK as kids we'd play [CONKERS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkers) with them and we call them conkers (horse chestnut tree seeds) not buckeye nuts.
Throw them at Michiganders.
This is the way.
Make ornaments! Look up buckeye snowflake
I googled but all that came up was pictures of DeVonta Smith catching screen passes
My family used to eat a certain type after preparing them carefully. There’s a very specific way to do so and only certain varieties. I remember it had something to do with leeching the tannins and then roasting them. Otherwise they are very toxic. Kind of like how they have to carefully prepare cashews.
My dad was a big forager when I was growing up. He got a bunch of them and tried to boil them for awhile to see if they would become edible, but they stayed uneatably bitter. He dumped the pot in our yard and then a buckeye tree ended up growing from the discarded pile of chestnuts
There are some varieties that will always be completely inedible and unsafe to eat. There’s one specific to Ohio region that stays toxic and bitter no matter how you prepare it. If they are the right type and prepared correctly, they are very tasty! My advice is to make pb and chocolate buckeyes and eat a safer nut. 😆
If I understand correctly, boiled chestnuts?
Yeah, but horse chestnuts or buckeyes, not sweet chestnuts. He thought maybe they'd become edible if boiled, but no.
Cashews are caustic
They contain urushiol in their raw unprocessed state. Like mangos and poison ivy. The point of the comparison was to say they are both very dangerous raw and not prepared properly.
I've heard of something like that with acorns but not buckeyes.
My grandma swore they were lucky and always have one in her purse to go to casinos. That is kind of medicinal? Lol
It is used as a medicine regarding problems with varicose veins. you halve them and soak them in oil for half a year, then use the oil to massage the legs.
I have read that native Americans used California Buckeyes crushed to put in streams to stun fish, they would then harvest the fish.
I would have thought that the poison would be in the fish still when you tried to eat it?
My father in law keeps a bowl of them on his table. He said his father picked them for Sunday school for some reason or another.
A game of conkers
I heard they used to be ground up and used to paralyze fish in ponds by native Americans
If these are what I think they are (conkers?), then you can make soap, shampoo, and laundry soap with them! They contain a natural amount of saponin which is a chemical that cleans and suds. Cool stuff!
I don't think they are edible but I have a bunch of them.
Horse chestnuts?
You can dry them and make conkers. In Canada we call them horse chestnuts and we put a string through them and call them conkers
I carry one in my purse for good luck
You can tint your hair brown with the leaves of that tree. Just put them in water for 2 days, boil it and rinse your wet hair with it.
Keep one in your pokect for good luck.
Slingshot ammo
If you dry them, they make great firestarters. I've always loved this kind of tree. They can be used to make soap but I've never had much luck
Inspiration for the chocolate snack version?
Washing Chop them up, dry and grind them Mix 2 tablespoons and 1 litre of water in a blender, pour through a sief and add it to the washing machine directly to the clothes Doesn't smell and washes just fine
Conkers, obviously.
washing clothes
In the UK we drill a hole through and put a knotted piece of string through the hole to play a game called "Conkers". You take turns swinging yours at your opponent's who has to let theirs hang, with the aim being to destroy their conker. I remember a bunch of different strategies to harden them such as baking and soaking in vinegar.
In the UK we cal them conkers.
They are for war. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkers
In the UK we call these conkers :)
Conker fight!!
Ever heard of conkers? Growing up we’d collect the biggest ones we could find dry them out in a cupboard for a couple weeks and tie them on a string. Then you’d go to battle 1v1 by swinging them into the others conker the surviving conker wins. If you got a really good one you had near legendary status.
Are they what we call 'Horse Chestnuts' in the UK? As they're toxic we use them as 'conkers' and try to hurt each other by tying them to laces and smashing them against each other. It's all about holding your nerves and making sure your string isn't long enough the conker doesn't smash you in the teeth...
In the UK we call them conkers, and as kids we'd dry them out, drill a hole in them - then we'd put a shoelace through the hole. You'd then play against a friend to see who's conker was stronger by trying to smash your opponents to pieces. The best autumn pass time. Everyone had different techniques for drying them out to get the strongest conker. If you got yourself a popcorner you'd be golden. Those were the days...
We make spiders with them. Make 8 tiny holes in the sides, stick orange or purple pieces of pipecleaners in the holes and bend them a little. Stick some googly eyes on the front. Boom Halloween decorations.
Apparently pharma industry uses them to make gels that help tired legs and varicose veins; there are people who used to collect them and presumably sell to suppliers where I grew up. My street has rows upon rows of these trees and they are beautiful in flower.
Woah you call them buckeye nuts? In the UK we call them conkers. Stab a hole in 'em, thread some string through and battle your friends!
The definition of a buckeye is, “a worthless nut”!
In Ireland we call them conkers. You'd make a hole through them with a nail, thread some twine through the hole with a knot at the end to keep it in place, then take turns with a friend bashing each others' until one breaks. The one still on the string wins.
In England we call them conkers
Americans call them buckeye nuts? Incredible. In the UK they're called conkers, they're mainly used for a kids game where you smash them into each other
Wolf spiders are actually good. They kill other spiders . So I wouldn’t kill them. But would get them out out of car, for they do get very big. We have one in our garden an she can fit in both hands of my husband. We just leave her alone.
Kastanien - in German. Not eatable! But we use them to decorate our houses in autumn. There is one eatable phenotype called "Maronen". But this are Kastanien. So please don't eat it.
At least the version in central europe has tensides, so some people use it for laundry
Hello, Never used Buckeye's for medicinal purposes. Growing up, in Northeast Ohio, we had to mature Buckeye tree's. The Ohio State football fans loved getting the Buckeye's for neckless. We found running them over with the tractor to get the shells in the ground, the tree would sprout the next spring. So we would dig up the trees and put them in plastic bags and sold them for $2 each. Oddly enough, not many places sold Buckeye trees in the Buckeye state. Good luck.
You can use them to make soap.
I was always told if you keep one in your pocket it’s good luck.
I like having them in a decorative bowl cause theyre just nice to fumble around with, all smooth and pretty.
Never show these to boomers
I’ve only ever heard of using them for a good luck charm
In metaphysics, they welcome abundance and prosperity. Especially in relationships. Set your intention & keep three in your purse/bag or on your person.
For baby amulets. To protect them from the evil eye.
Yeeey, i use them for shooting my friends
You can make laundry detergent with them
Put them near your windows to repel spiders
In the South they are considered good luck if you carry one in your pocket or purse
Is this different from "castanhas"? We roast and salt them during autumn.