TOPIC: 5 Prong up - 2 year old wild-sim, and wild patch

Here is the second bed of 2 year old stuff I video'd this morning.

TNhunter

TNhunter

That's an awesome 5 prong!

I'm glad to see that it came back up as a 5 prong instead of turning back to a 4 prong.

I'm sure the deformed leaves was a result of transplant shock and or shipping shock. It will surely be in great shape next season and hopefully still a 5 prong.

Your other plants all look good.

Thanks for sharing!

classicfur

TNhunter,
That sure is some nice looking sang. Your soil must be really good too. Those are some really healthy looking tall young 2 prongs. I see a lot of other nice companion plants in your pics as well. Glad you have such a nice spot to plant. Looking forward to much success there for you with plenty of pics in the years to come.
Latt

That's really beautiful stuff you have growing there, TNHunter. Best of luck on it this year.

Given the drought you expereinced last year, how many of your plants came back from that?

Looking good TN! The big 4prong I got with Billy looks a lot like your 5prong plant as far as the leaves being a little rough looking. I had tranplanted quite a few plants last fall and some of them look just as perfect as can be and others came up with the edges of their leaves kinda battered looking. I dug them all myself and cared for them all the same. I know it is from tranplanting them, but wonder why some plants seem unaffected? A lot of times the plants will regress the 2nd spring after being tranplanted regardless of how healthy they appear that first year. But oftentimes they will get back to the size they were before transplanting or even bigger by the 3rd spring.

Enjoyed watching your videos last night! Thanks for \"taking me\" out to your plots!

wow. thanks for sharing the picture of the 5 prong. I can't wait to see one in person some day.

Whitjr asked... how many plants came back from that awful heat & dry spell we had last fall.

I checked my beds in June and they were all looking good. We had some decent rain up to that point. But end of June it just stopped raining and that went on for months, and the temps were up in the mid to upper 90's. It was bad dry and hot.

I checked my wild simulated planting beds again first week in August and found that many of them had absolutely no 3 leafers left living in them. Some you could not find any sign of, so they obviously expired back in July, others were still hanging on buy very distresses, yellow, wilted. By Mid August most were dead.
Even the big roots in my seed producing bed the tops were just turning brown and dieing (most with pods of green berries) but the leaves all dead.

It was not a normal yellowing process, they just went from green one week, to brown and wilted the next.

Here around my house I have 3 red oak trees that also turned brown and died in the tops. This spring the tops are dead and only a few lower limbs have green leaves.

By Sept 1 even down lower on the north hillsides in the woods, there was no ginseng to be found. The other companion plants were brown and dead, I saw big patches of bainberry and MHF that were just standing dead brown. Young saplings had brown and curled up leaves on them. No seng to be found except for an occasional one down in a nice deep shade place in the bottom of the hollow.

I was a bit worried about my seed producing plants coming back, and the wild simulated that I planted in those beds.

But 41 of my seed bed plants did come back this year. Some look real good. Some regressed some (top wise) from last year.

And those two beds that I did the youtube vid's of and posted on this thread, they were all dead by Mid August, not a one standing.

They appear to be a bit thinner than last year, but still a good stand of lil 2 prongs and 5 leafers, and big 3 leafers present.

I think this ginseng is tougher and more determined to live than we often give it credit for.

THhunter

TN,
I went back and watched your video after you posted the pics. Man those are some really nice planting beds. The pics are great but the video really shows the planting beds off and you have some fantastic planting spots. Once again your soil and site selection and planting skills have really paid off. Great job and I look forward to much success for you and others.

Can't ask for better germination than that. They are really doing well even after dry conditions last year and early wilting due to the drought. Sang is really an interesting plant for sure and much heartier at times like BCastle said.

I wish I owned some woods like you have as well as some other fellas like Hillhopper etc do. I would have a hard time not going nuts and planting a bunch with results like that.

I have many spots that look similar but too many that have proved to be somewhat of a disappointment.

Like we all have stated, if it was easy everybody would be doing it.
Latt

Nice videos Tn and I commend all of your growing efforts.

I am very happy and it done my heart good that the 5 prong came up as a 5 prong for you that was what I had hoped for because you had not saw one.The top steams and overall size of the plant is at least 1/3rd or more smaller than last season when the plant was dug.

Next season if it does not stay dorment it will be bigger than it was when found last season once it is past the shock of transplanting then the 1st strong bud will be larger the 2nd season that it comes back up.

Guys some of the older wild ginseng tops are up this season in a couple of my favorite spots.I will have some beauiful photos to share with you all later on 1 of these Grandpas has not been up for 2 seasons I was very excited to see it once again and I want to show them to you all when they are full of berries.

This is a photo from last season of the largest wild 5 prong that we have ever found.


Billy.