I guess it depends on when you plan on planting. If you have or will soon get some seeds, then now is the time to plant. It would have been better to plant earlier if you wanted to plant in the Spring but I know that some Suppliers did not have seeds available until well into March. If you are much later on getting the seeds and plan a Fall planting, then I believe it is best to store them in the refrigerator where they will stay cool but not freeze. That is what I do but I am sure that others have different methods for storage and hopefully will chime in with different methods. Just don't keep the seeds too long in the refrigerator or elsewhere as the embryo and endosperm can die or they could possibly sprout while being stored. Once the seeds begin to sprout, they are much harder to plant in the ground. If you separate out the sprouting seeds out and start them inside in seed-starting trays being very careful not to damage the sprout (emerging embryo), I believe many will survive. Once fully up and healthy, I believe you can carefully transplant them into a Ginseng Bed being careful to not to disturb their' roots and the soil they grew in in the seed-starting trays (i.e. plant them soil and all). Make sure to water them when transplanted and once a day for several days if there is no rain. If seeds are stored for some time, you can do a float test to determine which seeds are viable and which are dead embryo-wise. If any seeds float, then they are no longer viable for planting. Most folks remove these, so there is less chance that if they dead seeds are diseased, they will not infect the good seeds.
Frank
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