TOPIC: How much land?

I have 1/2 lb of ginseng im about to plant. How much how many square feet of land should i make a half pound cover? im just not sure how to space my seeds.



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sengroots,

In Scotts book he recommends seeding at 4-5 seeds per sq ft.

He says if you are planting in good locations, and seed at 4-5 per sq ft, you should have 1-2 mature plants per sq ft at harvest time.

In a 250 sf bed (5'x50') that would be 1000-1250 seeds.

1/2 lb of seed should be around 3500 seeds.

3500 seeds put down at 4 per sq ft covers 875 sq ft.

At 5 per sq ft would cover 700 sq ft.

Good Luck with your planting !

TNhunter

thanks tnhunter, im really excited about planting my first plot I wanna make sure everything goes well. I have a excellent spot about 1/2 behind my house, there is a little branch running down the holler, full of poplars, rich rocky soil, and several good sized plants that I found a few years ago but never dug up. Do u use the e-mail associated with your wildgrown profile? I sent a message to that e-mail not sure if its the right one.



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sengroots,

Sounds like you have a nice spot to plant there.

The email that I have on my wildgrown profile, is not one that I check often.

In fact, It's been a long while since I checked it.

I did not want all of the wildgrown post to accumulate in my regular email so I setup that email address just to divert those to and keep my regular email a bit cleaner.

I will try to make time to check it soon.

PS - I just started growing seng last year myself and planted close to 4 lbs of seed. So far this year I have planted nearly 2 lbs - got a little more to finish up this weekend and will have that 2 lbs in.

TNhunter

O ok i hear ya, well the e-mail was just asking your advice on the grow guide on my website. im a first time grower so everything that is on there is from internet research and i just wanted a second opinion on it from someone who knew a little more about growing, and i have enjoyed following you posts and youtube videos. The guide just doesnt seem full enough to me. If you get a chance to help me out I would be more than happy to give you some credit and put some links to your pages or upload your videos or something.

sengroots,

I checked my hotmail email account late yestereday and had nearly 1500 unread emails there

99.9% of them were wildgrown forum post (auto reply stuff) and youtube channel subscription notifications.

I did have a few valid emails there including yours, and someone who was wanting to buy some seng from me.

I looked at your web site and have just a few comments that you might want to consider...

No desire to have credit for my comments, just glad to help when I can.

Where you discuss wild-simulated you mention harvest at the 5 year point. I think most of the folks here would agree that a more reasonable expectatoin of harvest time would be in teh 7-10 year range for wild-simulated.

With field grown artificial shade cultivated, they do fertilize heavily, use pesticides, fungicides, and can harvest good sized roots in as little as 4-5 years. But the roots are not really anything like wild in appearance and quality.

I think many of the guys that are growing wild-simulated and talking about it here are not planning to harvest any until at least 7 years has past, and if you can wait until 10 years - even better.

Where you mention \"seeds and rootlets\" you said something about possibly collecting seed from wild plants to replant. It is actually illegal in most states to take the berries from wild plants away from the location you found them (you have to plant them in the immediate area of the parent plant).

Where you talked about planting rootlets, you mentioned planting them so that the bud spur would be 2-3\" deep. If you are talking about mature roots (4-6 years old or older) that would probably work OK. But a lot of rootlet suppliers sell 1 and 2 year old rootlets and those need to be planted shallower than what you suggested. On a 1 year old rootlet I would think the bud spur should be no deeper than 1 to 1.5\", where larger more mature roots you could go 2-3\" deep.

You might want to give a few more details there and distinguish between younger rootlets vs older more mature rootlets on the planting depth recommendation.

One last thing - In your Location section - you mentioned if you do not Own Land, you might want to consider Leasing or Buying a Lot.

One other option is to work out an agreement with a land owner that will let you grow on their property. There are a few guys that post here that have done that, and if you search the forum there is actually a land owner agrement/contract posted that someone shared last year.

Good Luck with your website project and with your first planting this year.

It will be exciting in the spring seeing all of those 3 leafers poping out.

TNhunter

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Sengroots:

Welcome to the forum!

Having those 'sang plants already there is a real plus [in my book] I'm going to plant some of them in there next year, some wild ones like you already have.

Please keep up posted on how it;'s going for you!

K-Duce: I'll be glad when I can take a photo of my crop looking that nice!

TnHunter: I'm one of those zillion emails you got, regarding bowhunting...

tnhunter: thanks for the great advice. i have been doing some work on my website the grow guide is up next for a makeover. I will definately be using a lot of your advice, I really appreciate it.

K_Duce: That is possibly the most beautiful thing I have ever seen lol


whitjr: thanks bud, this is an awesome forum. Ya having those plants there makes me feel a lot better, but i tell you it has been hard not to dig them these past couple of years. Especially the big 4 prong at the top of the holler.