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Hillhopper, Right on!

Reading all these post makes me want to order some more seed. Think I may buy another pound and do an experiment with it. I may plant it in tilled/amended/mounded black organic soil in my back yard, spray the piss out of it with fungicides, fertilize it just so I can enjoy seeing some beautiful huge seng growing close by. I know the root will be virtually worthless but I may get some nice seed from it. This may give me something to tinker with this winter. If I do I will start a thread on it.
Latt

HIllHopper, like the new photo there. I have to agree with you... about having an informed retreat to the wilds and letting the world revolve as it wants to.

I retire from the medical profession next May... Shhh... don't tell my boss, he dosen't know it yet. My point is that I plan to spend a lot of time in the woods then! 'Way more than I could when putting 48+ hours weekly for work.

Latt- Would like to know how the proposed project goes. BTW YGM. I have a treeline at home that has resisted growing our favorite herb . I guess that i need to just get busier withit, sorta like you are proposing to do in yours.

Whitjr,
Thanks, I felt kinda like my woman does with her hair-do sometimes......It was just time for a change.

Hillhopper

Latt, How about buying a pound of 3 year old roots and spraying the piss out of them also? Then you could tell the effects by next fall. More seeds? Grey roots? I have mine planted already. Maybe we could compare results?
Redbeard

For what its worth, I\"ve posted pictures before of woods grown roots which were sprayed regularly (fungicides only) for the first three years or so...but then left to their own devices. They looked as good or better than the older wild sim which grew 100 yards away that I had planted by only putting seed in the ground.

Latt wrote:

Reading all these post makes me want to order some more seed. Think I may buy another pound and do an experiment with it. I may plant it in tilled/amended/mounded black organic soil in my back yard, spray the piss out of it with fungicides, fertilize it just so I can enjoy seeing some beautiful huge seng growing close by. I know the root will be virtually worthless but I may get some nice seed from it. This may give me something to tinker with this winter. If I do I will start a thread on it.
Latt

Now look what you have went and done latt, created yet another classification....i bet some of us here will try to alter even that method

Latt and K_duce,
\"Virtually Worthless\"... That is by far not a new classification. Come on down and I'll introduce you to some of my buddies!

Hillhopper

Virtually worthless... LOL

Too funny fellas. I mean I spend money on Hostas and other perennial plants that I enjoy. I would really enjoy growing some huge ginseng just for the pleasure of seeing it everyday in my shaded lawn-scape. I have Jack-in -the -pulpit, Goldenseal, Trillium, Blood root, Grean Dragon in my shaded areas of the yard mixed in with traditional landscaping plants. I have some ginseng growing in there currently too but not a whole lot. I may create a long shade garden and do this experiment.

I kid you not I just received a pic from a friend that I was talking about this with and he did it already. He sent me a pic of a huge cultivated seng plant and the seed ball was the size of a tennis ball. I bet the plant is 30 inches tall and the root is huge. He said his roots got rusty after 8 to 9 years tho. Still would be worth it to me.

I will see if I can get permission to post the pic on here.
Latt