TOPIC: 6 and 7 year olds

Big tops

Seeds looking good

Goldenseal

Hopefully I will get a lot of seeds this year

Nice!

Very nice lenno

Lenno,
First of all, congratulations on some nice ginseng. Your plants look very similar to my oldest patch and your seed pods look like they are on just about the same time schedule as mine. They look like they will mature in the middle of July. If they do, what will you do with them, and how will you replant? This looks like seed that originated in Minnesota as my early seed did and it can be hard to get it safely to reproduce without loosing a lot of it. I'm all ears about how to deal with early ripening seed. By the way, have you dug any to see how the roots are maturing? From the looks of the tops they could be ready just any time. Good luck with them.

Hugh

Thanks Brad and Hobbler

Hugh, I always get a lot of early ripe berries. I just treat them the same as the later ones but I do lose a lot. I put them in stratification, but a lot of them will sprout the first spring so when it is time to dig them out of stratification holes I have about 70% left (that are still good) I guess it might be better to just plant them instead of stratifying.

I have looked at some of the roots. Some look really good with lots of rings and others not so much. When I harvest some this fall I will post some pics.