TOPIC: Seeds Forming Already!

Lots of rain here in NC, no real dry yet. The folks that keep records here in NC say that we are still on some sort of light drought status. However you can't prove it by me... pleanty of rain here in the piedmont, as well as the mountains.

Having said that, I hope/pray that the dry doesn't return like it did last year!

I hope it doesn't turn off the same either Whitjr. I tell ya what though, I inspected some yearlings and iv already noticed growth buds forming. They aren't large (more like a tiny spur), but even if it does get dry and plants go down early I believe we'll be ok in my area. I guess its due to the early warm up but I would say in another couple weeks they will be in the clear regardless.

Off topic but.......
Any of yall see The Hatfields and Mccoys? Damn fine show. To me, I would rank it up there about like an Appalachian Lonesome Dove.... I didn't notice any Seng in it though lol

Hillhopper

Yup. good miniseries. No 'sang, lots of hatred....

A couple of things guys,
Since it is looking like the season is several days or weeks ahead of itself I'm wondering how this will affect the ripening date of the seeds and the new digging dates that have just been changed in Ky. and possibly, Tenn? Then throw in all the delayed germination of seedlings that is still happening.

Hill,
I have been watching the Hatfield and Mc'Coy series and I told my wife that it is the bloodiest, goriest thing that I have ever seen on tv. It is not all that far from East Tn. to the Pikeville,Ky. area and as I was growing up I experienced many fueds that were still ongoing in Cocke County, Tn. that had grown from divisions caused by the Civil War. We have to pass through a community to get to our mountain ginseng that had the last killing that I remember from one of the fueds. A lady was shot, point blank with a shotgun through the kitchen window and noone was ever charged with the killing. I was a grown man when that occured. That had to be a hundred years after the war. They just needed some Asian ginseng to calm them down.
Hugh

It looks like everything is early this year.
I think we will start seeing red seng berries by July if not earlier. Then, I've got some plants just starting seed pods that will be closer to normal on ripening. I guess I'll pick them as they mature before the varmits do. \"hopefully\".

I checked my seed bed yesterday and no berries forming yet.

We have had some dry spells this year, a bad one in early spring, but since then it has not been that bad, with some good rains now and then.

Hope those occasional good rains hold out thru July and August.

Got a real good long hard rain earlier this week - a real gully washer.

PS - I used to work with a guy named Terry McCoy from Maryville TN area that said he was a descendant of the McCoys from the fued.

I think they have evolved some since those days - Terry was a real nice & friendly guy.

TNhunter