TOPIC: Woods Grown

I've been looking up definitions and really any seed or rootlets from a cultivated source and purposely managed under natural canopy would be considered woods grown.
This might be a good thing if there was to be ban on wild or wild simulated since woods grown doesn't fall under cites and still it would have a market.

I agree rootman.

I still think if I buy the seeds and plant them on private land, I should be able to do as I wish with the plants/roots. It has nothing to do with the wild ginseng population. Besides, all we would have to do is throw out a bunch of seeds in the wild to reestablish the wild populations anyway. Ginseng is ginseng.

People have been planting cultivated seeds out in the mountains for many years anyway, and that is a lot of what we dig that is considered wild.

It is almost funny how little our officials/government know about a given subject, but make the laws and assume they know everything.

People have been planting cultivated seeds out in the mountains for many years anyway, and that is a lot of what we dig that is considered wild.

Lenno,
I have been thinking this very thing for years now. After being in the mountains for 15 years now planting, and finally digging some last year, the eye can tell you when a plant has been started from a planted seed or if it's come up wild. I know that most of the plants that I saw were probably from wild stock, but they had originally been found and the seed planted back in the ground in a \"spaced way\". Thank goodness we had some early pioneers at keeping this special plant around because if it had been left to the Forest Service to rebuild stocks we would have nothing. I'm still for planting seed in the wild no matter where we get it from. Most of my seed crop this Summer will go right back to the mountains.

Hugh