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Post by garrett on Mar 21, 2014 12:24:41 GMT -5
ok I saw the tv show.... 1000 a pound? really? why? where can we gets us some?grins
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Post by garrett on Apr 20, 2014 21:50:14 GMT -5
still interested.any takers?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2014 23:06:34 GMT -5
Pester me in the fall. Seed needs be broadcast underneath something. Left on its own it grows underneath poison ivy. In my old garden, I grew it under the grape arbor.
The why is, its slower than mollases in Feburary. The other why is Chinamen and Koreans never replanted the seeds (and or harvested roots before seeds were ripe). Their stocks are extinct as a result.
If you really really gotta plant a ton, place an order for seed with Johnny's Selected Seeds, on your own.
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Post by garrett on Apr 20, 2014 23:09:45 GMT -5
smiles not a ton bro...just a few......smiles
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2014 6:00:25 GMT -5
This little Virginia Creeper lookin'-ish plant grows at a snails pace. It never really vines up like virginia creeper tho.
Because it just farts along, I did better broadcasting a few seeds over several years.
From seed to seed. About July (in NH) on year three or four it will make its first red berries. Collect those.
Store them inna zip-lock (in 2 parts damp sand or damp perlite) in the fridge till halloween. Then broadcast seed 'under' something. They like it shady.
Now because every head banger aquaintence of yours also saw the same History channel show they're gonna act bit by the gold bug too. The facts is no Asian market will pay a lowly round-eyed gaijin like you or me anything like a $ 1000 a pound for ancient wild crafted root. And skinny young roots they won't take at all.
Ginseng has a number of valid medicinal and 'other' pharmacologic uses.
I have described my 'sang as virginia creeper to potential poachers.
Nothing would surprise me less than, my winter dormancy in NH, is replaced by your Texican drouth dormancy. This is a tough wild little plant.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2014 11:09:28 GMT -5
Depending on whose talking ginseng has some minor anti-depressant qualities--to a mild halucinogen. if you asked Harry Potter, the little buggers scamper around the potions classroom when ever nobody is looking.
This is one of the few plants that has stood up to the test of time, from the time of "Doctrine of signatures", to modern Chinese herbal medicine (for the life of me I can't remember if its a cooling or warming herb).
It does interesting things with other herbs that are fat soluble.
I can positively state that you can count the rings on a root where it erupts from the soil line. I have seen ginseng much older than 100 years of age. Old root can make oddly people shaped roots, and is sweeter than young thread like roots.
The big deal for the modern grower is a place (a space) under something for it to grow in the shade. At its own pokey pace.
IMO the beautiful park like sites in that History channel show, never exist in nature. "Sang hides out, (see Harry Potter reference).
PS: it has been of interest to me for oh the past fourty years, 'sang never ran afoul of DEA or other unplesant people in kevlar and black uniforms.
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Post by coffeebreak on Nov 4, 2014 18:52:20 GMT -5
Garrett these are Ginseng seeds they have been carefully stratify for the pass year. and are now ready to plant if you still want to try your hand at growing Ginseng I can let you have about 10 seeds they should be planted this Fall read up on it on growing ginseng then let me known if you still want some seeds Charles
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Post by Citizen Coppice on Nov 6, 2014 6:02:52 GMT -5
Garret has already received ginseng seed from me.
Good luck if you can get him to reply.
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Post by nightmist on Nov 6, 2014 8:37:54 GMT -5
Well I gotta say when we gave ginseng a try it grew very well. though slowly as you have mentioned. Unfortunately every living thing underground seems to think it the finest delicacy. From moles and bugs to rabbits and woodchucks, they all converged and feasted. The dogs got fat, the snares rang and rang and rang, we tried every pest repellent known to man and then some, and still we lost darn near the lot.
I'll not try it again unless I have an old stone cellar to fill with loam, and a good sturdy fence to put around it.
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Post by coffeebreak on Nov 7, 2014 4:41:06 GMT -5
Thank you Tom. For for the info the offer still stand for him. If he want some seeds
Charles
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Post by garrett on Feb 16, 2015 21:23:31 GMT -5
might take another look.
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Again waiting impatiently for spring! how is everyone out there! Snow and extreme cold here in NW
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Post by indigogirl17 on Feb 21, 2015 12:50:16 GMT -5
Pester me in the fall. Seed needs be broadcast underneath something. Left on its own it grows underneath poison ivy. In my old garden, I grew it under the grape arbor. The why is, its slower than mollases in Feburary. The other why is Chinamen and Koreans never replanted the seeds (and or harvested roots before seeds were ripe). Their stocks are extinct as a result. If you really really gotta plant a ton, place an order for seed with Johnny's Selected Seeds, on your own. ****************************** That show scares me:). I very much appreciate your comment about it being found under poison ivy...that puts me out of the game evemn if I was interested. I am terribly allergic to poison ivy, sumac and oak. I did just find a cool old ginseng growing guide in a library cast off pile.
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Post by garrett on Feb 21, 2015 22:33:27 GMT -5
thanks indigo....
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