TOPIC: Ohio Seng Season 2010

Thats awsome 5 and so good that she likes ginsenging congrats to her in the utmost and way to go dad.

First of all, Thanks Billy.

Now WOO-HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
I went to one of those west facing slopes that I didn't really have high hopes for tonight after work. I didn't find a huge number of roots, but found some REALLY NICE ONES!!! These don't weigh as much of some of those huge mountain roots some of you guys run across from time to time, but are right up there with some of the bigger ones I've ever dug here in Ohio. I only dug 13 bunches tonight and ended up with right at 9 ounces. The six largest roots pushed the scale to just a hair over 7 ounces.
I was really getting discouraged after last fridays hunt. I've been only looking in new areas, and really was disappointed in the number of big plants that I'd found this fall. I'm kind of like a trophy hunter when it come to sengin. I really like the thrill of finding huge old plants. For my area, this is just about as big as a guy is likely to find. Getting out with my daughter on Sunday afternoon and finding these big boys tonight really made this seng season special. They all are in their own way, but these are the two things I'll remember from this one. The question I'm asking myself is should I end this season on this high note, or should I try one more spot?
hope you guys enjoy these pics, I sure am

Here are four of the big ones, Ther are 2 big 4-prongs and 2 big 3-prongs in this patch, kinda hard to tell what is what in this pic.

Here's a big yellow 3banger!!! The only disapointing part of tonights dig. I broke this one digging it out.

I like this pic where the seng is standing taller than the cohosh!!!
Thanks for putting up with me guys. The adrenaline still hasn't let up. Guess the seng factor finaly kicked in for me.

Thats an awsome day 5 and what a great weekend you have had time spent with the daughter and such great roots the day after thats a good weekend for sure,congrats buddy you deserved it.....

Thanks Billy, I don't know whether I deserv it or not, but I sure did put in some miles this fall to find those ones. It's an area that doesn't look that great from the road. It's a narrow strip of woods along a mainly west facing slope and cattle are on it a good bit of the year. I only found 2 small patches of seng in there. Both patches were in areas to steep for the cattle. The one patch was of just average sized roots and the other were supersized (for this area). The soil in both these areas was heavy clay with chunks of what I think was limestone. The only difference I saw was that the ground was more moist where I found the larger roots. Not what I'd call ideal growing conditions, but the seng sure liked it.