TOPIC: nc soil test

Close to 20 acres all together. Real blessed to live in a great place for ginseng.

travisnc

Please give us more details about your growing seng.

On twenty acres. How many pounds of seeds have you planted? How much of it is five yr old plants? How many pounds of seed did you plant last fall? Any idea of what the germination rate of seedlings was this spring?

Twenty arcres of seng is far more acreage than than anyone on this site has planted!

We would like to know more.

Thanks,

classicfur

Speaking of making Ginseng a business. Check out this fellas ginseng business. It called Walnut Meadows Ginseng. Bill is not too far from the Larry Harding's farm. Looks like Bill is a tree farmer among other things as well.

www.wmginseng.com/

www.southernsare.org/Educational-Resourc...le-Bruceton-Mills-WV

Latt

travisnc,

Agree with Classicfur - would be interesting to hear some details about your growing efforts (success, failures, what you have learned over the years).

I would especially be interested in hearing what planting method you use to get that kind of acerage planted.

I have 230 acres of land to work with myself (own it) and it does have wild seng growing on it.

Using rake/scatter method I can plant 4-5 pounds of seed each fall/winter. Last fall/winter was my first attempt at planting wild simulated and I had some very good luck with that.

Mike over at hardwood ginseng suggested that with the acerage that I have that I should automate the planting process some - he suggested broadcasting seed and then using a tiller to work it into the top 1-2\" of soil - tilling no more than 2\" deep.

Evidently that is a method that he has used and had good luck with.

Last year I planted mine using rake/scatter method - which I am happy with, and plan to do more of, but I would not be opposed to trying out other methods that may be more efficient at getting more acers planted.

Hope you don't mind sharing some of your experienced with us.

Best of luck with your seng growing !

TNhunter

Latt
That's a big seng operation.

But the thing that runs through my mind as I looked at the pics. Just like hardings web site, they claim to be selling Wild-Simulated products, but in all the photos from both sites everything they show is \"Woods Cultivated\" not wild-simulated, and neither offer Woods Cultivated Products. But both sites offer Wild Simulated products, seeds and roots.

I think both of them are confussed as to what real Wild-Simulated is!

It's odd that they would not have any photos of growing Wild Simulated plants.

What do you think?

classicfur

I have about 1 acre of 5 year old seng. I have planted roughly 400 pounds of seeds. I do the rake and scatter method. I planted 150 pounds last fall. You have to buy your seeds early! 5 guys can plant 150 pounds in 7 hard days.

I do not till. You can grow ginseng many different ways. I like wild simulated myself. You can make more money if you till and let it grow at least 9 years. you have to get your soil just right. This will get the weight of the roots up but still look wild. My land is so steep, I can not get a tiller on it.

Classicfur,
I agree. It all looks like woods cultivated in the pics. I did see some large areas at the Hardings farm that was planted with no pronounced beds or mounding. But then again much of it is planted in tilled and mounded in seed rootlet beds. I think they may transplant some of those rootlets in untilled soil but I would not swear to that. Maybe this is what they are calling wild simulated. I always thought wild simulated was planting seeds and letting them thrive in untilled soil with as little help as possible.

Travisnc,
That is quite a leap from where I am at currently. I have expectations to advance to that point. Can you share more info? Any pics?
Thanks,
Latt

Latt,

One main thing I would do is not plant it to close together. When I first started, I did not know anything. Nature will thin it out if you do not, unless you spray. Do not do more than you can handle. I have a passion for it. It is hard work! The guy I get some seeds off of has growing down to a art. I can not grow it like him because our land is so different. Alot of it is according to how your land is laid out.

Classicfur,

You are right on the money on how to grow. I have been reading your comments for a while. I do not know it all, and I love to hear everybodys opinions. I have learned if you do much at all, set your area up for a atv and not back pack sprayers.