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- From: "Paul A. Bock" <bockpa AT plesh.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: RE: [Market-farming] cultivated ginseng
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:35:04 -0400
True
American Ginseng that Asian people pay lots of money for is Panax
Quinquefolium (five leaf). Another species Panax Ginseng is worthless and
is used in MANY "ginseng" products while not providing much of the
benefits of the true american ginseng.
Don't
waste your time with something other than Panax Quinquefolium. Check out
the info at www.catskillginseng.com. Also
there is a book called "green gold" that talks a lot about the history as well
as the cultivation techniques of this plant.
I
don't know if the original poster was thinking of planting these things in pots
and selling them to customers. The plants are very finicky. You do
not want to fertilize them. In fact the more you try to do to stimulate
growth the worse off the plant will be. The best place to plant them and
grow them is in a sugar maple grove on a slightly graded north or east facing
slope. The leaf fall of sugar maples provides a high calcium soil for
the ginseng to grow in. People grow these things also in fields,
very dense plantings in fields that are covered with shade
cloth. They have to spray these things with repeated treatments of
fungicides to combat fungal attacks. Mostly because they try to
cram so many in the field. The best way is to openly plant ginseng in the
woods where it will get a 60-80% natural shade. I plant mine only about
1-2 feet away from each other. If one gets a bit of a fungal blight, there
is less chance the others will get it. I haven't seen any blight
yet. I don't fertilize or anything. I simply plant the seeds in the
duff layer. "Wild simulated" is the technique I use.
Others use "woods cultivated". As an idea of prices field grown gets
about $15 or so a pound of dry roots. Wild roots get about
$350-500. The age of the roots has a lot to go with
price. I remember hearing of a story of a single 100 year old
root bringing close to $5,000. And it wasn't because of the size of the
root at all.
Paul
Bock
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[Market-farming] cultivated ginseng,
Nan Johnson, 07/22/2003
- RE: [Market-farming] cultivated ginseng, Paul A. Bock, 07/22/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] cultivated ginseng,
Del Williams, 07/22/2003
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RE: [Market-farming] cultivated ginseng,
Paul A. Bock, 07/23/2003
- RE: [Market-farming] cultivated ginseng, becky watkins, 07/24/2003
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RE: [Market-farming] cultivated ginseng,
Paul A. Bock, 07/23/2003
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