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Woodsgrown Ginseng / Re: Chinese Panax

« on: July 22, 2011, 01:31:33 PM »

Well don't worry whit as I dought that any of those genetics will escape my area by the control enclosure and travel to tennessee from Ohio.  Out of 200 seeds I see none growing.  The control area is not only in an electrified area with sattelite surveilance it's so damn far back in the woods the coyotes don't go there. 

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Woodsgrown Ginseng / Re: Chinese Panax

« on: March 07, 2011, 06:42:32 PM »

  From what I've been able to read on the internet is it's pretty close to being the same plant, panax koreanis, panax chinesis I believe.  Except they are actually supposed to be a little hardier and the above ground plant itself larger.  The Chinese in particular forbade the export of live seeds up until the turn of this century ( 2001) but as I have said the seed I purchased shows no signs of life yet.

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Woodsgrown Ginseng / Chinese Panax

« on: March 07, 2011, 05:04:56 PM »

I've been planting ginseng for several years now on my place in Southeastern Ohio.  I don't get to spend as  much time there as I would like but it is very theraputic.  I ordered some seed from  three differant sources in China to try and grow some of that variety.  To be brief the seed was very dry when I received it in the Summer so I decided to hold it over in refrigeration instead of planting.  Anyway I don't see any real sign of sprouting as I have of seeds I've stratified in the past.  So--- the big question is there any source of that variety in the USA.  I've done a bunch of internet searches and never found a domestic source.  I even made a segregated wired off spot for the seeds but it looks like I'll be planting tomatoes there until I find a differant source of seeds.  Anybody -----