Since these posts have been showing up in my email notifications, I came back here to change my settings so that they do not, in the future. While here, however, I will address the responses to my post.
Hillbilly-
I appreciate your post. This is along the lines of what I thought.
Kristi-
I can?t even begin to respond to your post. I have no idea who you are, and while I think I appreciate what you were trying to say, I honestly can?t tell. He/she, you can?t even tell what gender I am. Please do not help me in the future.
LRA-
The post to which you refer, about being a horticultural genius - well - that was supposed to be humor. I realize that it is sometimes difficult to discern emotions online, but this whole thing is beyond ridiculous now. Is everything on here, black and white? Apparently, humor is not my forte, sorry.
Perhaps I should explain exactly what my qualifications are, and how they impact this site.
I am a silviculturalist, not a horticulturalist; that is, my expertise is in trees, specifically redwoods. More specifically, dawn redwoods. My life?s work has been dedicated to this specie, and its reintroduction to the Blue Ridge Mountains, where it has not existed naturally for some 35 million years. I do, however, seem to have an extraordinary green thumb when it comes to germination. It is in this light, that I posted what I did. Sorry if some of you took it as an egotistical post. Again, the Internet is a crappy conveyor of emotion.
While there are indeed, some similarities between herbaceous and woody plants, there are many differences as well. One of those, is the direction in which sprouts point. While the majority go into the ground, a few do go the opposite way. Some are roots, while others are stems. When I posted, I was pressed for time. Half of my seeds (and I had over 30,000 of them) were sprouting in the bag when I got them. Does the word ?panic? come to mind for anyone else?
While I felt I knew what to do, I was in a foreign field and sought advice from experts in THIS field. To be honest, I am a leading expert globally, for dawn redwoods, but I am new to ginseng. It was in this manner that I sought advice.
My apologies if I came off as a know-it-all, but if I were really that, I would not be here in the first place. My intention was to be damn sure, before I put my hands in the ground.