TOPIC: Price/Demand for young plants

General Prices of young Ginseng plants? Prices from State to state? Is there a demand for them? If so, what is it like? What is some info about this particular market niche.

Bumppppp. Information or even a tip towards where some information surrounding my questions would be helpful.

Young plants? What do you mean, young roots to sell? Young roots to transplant? How young are you talking?

If you check out our host site wildgrown.com - they sell 3 year old rootlets.

See image below for quantity, price, etc.

Notice at this point they are all \"SOLD OUT\" so there is obviously a decent demand for them.

You can also buy 1 and 2 year old rootlets from various vendors and a few offer rootlets older than 3 years.



PS - you were asking specifically about \"young plants\". What you would need to do to get young plants is purchase young rootlets and plant them (late fall) then in the spring you should have your young plants.

Starting from rootlets is expensive compared to starting from stratified seed.

You can get a pound of stratified seed for around 100.00 (some more, some less).

A pound of seed is around 7000 seeds.

If you planted 7000 seeds in good location and had decent survival rate, then for around 100.00 (and a little work) you could easily end up with 3000-5000 young ginseng plants established.

Starting from rootlets is much more expensive than that, but if you want to get to the point that you have berry producing plants much faster, then planting a bunch of 3 year old rootlets would be a decent option.

TNhunter

I am talking about live 1 year plants, not JUST ROOTlets. How much would these go for on the market? Any ideas? To sell for people to transplant or whatever they wanna do with them.

ginsings7 wrote:

I am talking about live 1 year plants, not JUST ROOTlets. How much would these go for on the market? Any ideas? To sell for people to transplant or whatever they wanna do with them.

At one year old they would be pretty much worthless.

To those interested I sell wild ginseng rootlets they start at 5 years old and go up in age.

These are only available from Sept throgh November each season and it is better to pre order.

You can find more information about my seedbed roots/rootlets on my website under seedbed roots.

Mike has a link listed to my website under the -- Main Menu --

Useful Links from this site.

Billy.

ginsings7 wrote:

I am talking about live 1 year plants, not JUST ROOTlets. How much would these go for on the market? Any ideas? To sell for people to transplant or whatever they wanna do with them.

I also have live rootlets for sale like Billy does. But, Ginsing7, what you seem to be suggesting is a whole plant dug during the growing season before going dormant for the winter. If you dig one year plants too early, they will not survive well at all. The addition of the top to the rootlet is of no consequence to the buyer. In my opinion, it is only another piece of plant material which will die and potentially host disease.