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Wild Simulated Ginseng / Re: Seeding Methods

« on: September 14, 2011, 02:38:59 AM »

My first year, i tried a raised bed method in the fall in tennessee, used a tiller to make the beds, planted the seeds and covered with hay...total disaster, apparently feild mice used the hay as either a new home or a food distribution point to eat almost all of the ginseng that i planted    ............  Since then i have opted to plant my seed in the spring or late winter (End of Feb) using the rake and scatter method. Tennessee typically has a wet spring and i have gotten good germination this way, other people dont like to plant in the spring but it works for me.

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Cultivated Ginseng / Re: USDA Certified Organic Ginseng Rootlets

« on: May 02, 2011, 11:17:39 PM »

Michael,
From all that i have read about usda certification of ginseng, im not even sure where your market would be, One thing i noticed in the wording of the usda organic certification is that : fungicides/pesticides may be used on the crops up until 1 year from harvest or sale, so alot of people selling usda certified organic ginseng are actually using fungicides/pesticides on their crops for 3 or 4 years and are still able to label it as certified organic. The serious wild-simulated growers (thats where the money is right now),are for the most part buying the seed and planting it in a forest enviroment doing very little to the soil. I wish i had a better answer for you but i don't. I'm not trying to discourage you but in my opinion you should definately research this more.

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Market / Re: Average number of ginseng plants per (dry) pound

« on: May 02, 2011, 10:49:14 PM »

It depends alot on what part of the country you are in as well, mountain ginseng and northern ginseng tend to be larger than ginseng in the south. Where i live in Tenessee wild ginseng will average about 250-300 plants per pound. usually ginseng will loose 2/3rds of its weight during the drying process.

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Woodsgrown Ginseng / Re: Chinese Panax

« on: March 07, 2011, 09:11:52 PM »

Hello Hoser,
Just my thoughts, you may want to check with customs about introducing (importing) a foriegn plant into the U.S. I am not sure of the legality of it however. You may be able to purchase some Korean Ginseng Seeds through Paul Hsu's. or even some rootlets.
Since this question was pretaining to a source i hope that it is ok with Brad that i mention this. If it is not ok with ECG please feel free to delete this post.

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Introductions / NEW TO THE NEW FORUM............

« on: March 05, 2011, 02:55:20 PM »

Hi, i just wanted to introduce myself. I have been growing wild-simulated ginseng for about 10 years now and enjoy learning as much as i can about the plant. This looks like a good site to visit and watch at how it progresses.