TOPIC: Red Berries

Lenno,

I have two peach trees, one is a Early Elberta (best I remember) and the other is a Reliance.

They are semi-dwarf and best I remember I planted them 7 years ago.

The Early Elberta has had some disease issues and I had to cut it back some last winter, but it sort of made a come back this spring and made some nice big peaches a few weeks ago.

The \"Reliance\" has just been an outstanding peach tree. It seems to be much more hardy and vigorous. It grew twice as fast as the other and have had absolutely no problems with it. Done almost nothing to it and it produces a good crop of peaches every year.

Below is a pic if it from a little while back when it was heavy with peaches. I ended up with 3 prop poles holding the limbs up to keep them from breaking.

I got almost all of that weight off of it yesterday evening and I am sure it is feeling some relief now

TNhunter

Guys I am going to check some babys out tomorrow lord willing and ill take a couple photos om my babys these are my 1st time 1st season stratified planted plants,,i will also look and see if the wild seng is showing any signs of color change,will post some pics,,,yum yum them peaches look realy good.

Billy.

Peaches???You guys are a month ahead of us here....

That is a bad sign. Very nice picture, but way too early to have berries turning red. The drought that's spreading east coupled with this evidence tells me this will be a terrible year for ginseng. I hope I am wrong........

CarlM wrote:

That is a bad sign. Very nice picture, but way too early to have berries turning red. The drought that's spreading east coupled with this evidence tells me this will be a terrible year for ginseng. I hope I am wrong........

What is bad about it? Not an arguement, I just don't understand what the downside is.

For me the downside is this. In Wv the season opens September 1st. If there are berries turning red on ginseng July 13th in another state. That seems to be nearly a month early. If that translates over to WV then that means that Ginseng season will be short lived. With the serious drought and heat wave in the south and east, that spells disaster for a ginsenger's livelihood.

Hey Guys,

I checked my seed producing bed this morning (actually watered them a bit with my drip irrigation/soaker hose system) and noticed I have a couple berries turning red on one seed pod now.

On July 15 they were all green, today July 19 a couple berries are red, one fully red and another few turning.

It is on a big 4, root that I got from Billy.

It was the first to set a berry and now is the first to have one turn red.

Sorry the pic is blurry - could not get my camera to cooperate/focus well on close up today.

TNhunter

Many of my local seng root/tops have full green berries now, none showing red yet.

Some of my local root/tops (including the big/stout 3 below) still have blooms mixed with berries filling out.

I have some younger 3 prongs over nearby (5-7 years old) that still only have blooms, no berries yet.



TNhunter

Thanks for posting these Tn it is looking good.

I got a e-mail from Anna Lucio ( our ginseng cordinator for Ky: )

She told me that she may not have enough time to get the Sept: 1st rule for open day to start digging into effect for this season because time has slipped away from her,,but she would no for sure soon.

I wish they would make up there minds soon as it makes it diffucult for me to know what to state as the open day on my site....

Hopefuly they will make the decision soon...

I have changed it back to Aug 1st untill they do change it and hopefully they will get it changed for this digging season,,i like that rule,but we will see.

Billy.

Billy,

I checked the State of TN website and still see no changes there in our Harvest Season Laws.. still August 15 - Dececember 31.

The buy/sell season runs from Aug 15 - March 30.

Where you said August 1 on your previous post I think you meant to say August 15.

I do agree that Sept 1 would be better for TN. We always find a mix of red and green berries the first couple weeks, then in Sept most are red.

TNhunter

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Notes on Tennessee Ginseng Harvest Season Laws

The wild ginseng Harvest Season is from August 15th to December 31st of each year. It is unlawful to dig wild ginseng for the purpose of sale or export on any date not within the ginseng Harvest Season.

No permits are required to dig wild or cultivated ginseng, but one MUST have the landowner's permission to enter the property and dig wild or cultivated ginseng. Ginseng collectors may dig wild ginseng on their own land.

It is unlawful to dig, for the purpose of sale or export, any wild ginseng plant that has green berries or that has less than three (3) prongs. A \"prong\" means a ginseng leaf with three (3) to five (5) leaflets.

It is unlawful to dig wild ginseng for the purpose of sale or export, and remove the berries of the wild ginseng from the approximate location from which the wild ginseng was dug, and to fail IMMEDIATELY after such digging to plant the berries of the wild ginseng in the approximate location from which the wild ginseng was dug.
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