TOPIC: The reason we dig!!!!

I've been hunting 'seng about 30 years now, and found three big 4 prongs today that reminded me why I climb up and down these steep mountains all the time. I was crossing a holler and going to the next ridge on a steep mountain and had to go through a laurel thicket I would have never imagined there being in ginseng in. It got so thick I had to crawl and just happened to look up and see a big pod of red berries staring at me about 10 yards away. I really had to do a double take to make sure I wasn't seeing things, but after crawling over to them, I ended up finding these three big 4 prongers. After counting the stem scars, all are about 25-28 years old. I've found a few roots in the past as big as these, but never within 3 feet of each other. It was one of those moments I just had to sit there and admire them for 30 minutes before I ever broke soil. I've dug that mountain all my life(since I was 6 years old with my dad) and we've never thought to look in those laurels. I didn't bring home a lot of 'seng today, but the one's that I did I will remember forever. These are trophies for sure! Hope you enjoy the pics and good luck the rest of the season!! My season was made today!!

Jason,

That is some absolutely gorgeous looking sang. Good luck to you for the rest of your season!

Very nice Jason.if possible can u post the weight of the big one. Thxs for sharing

Laurel bed seng! Nice

That's some nice big ginseng, love finding them big ones

very nice roots man. also love those big tops!

Oh man...

That would sure make my season too.

Congrats on some real trophy tops and roots !

TNhunter

I don't have any scales handy Hobler, but I could probably stick them on my reloading scales and convert the grains to ounces...I'm curious myself.

Apparantly there's 437.5 grains in an ounce...Gotta love Google! LOL

Very nice roots. Those stems are really long compared to plants in my area. I wonder if they grew long trying to find the sun.