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  • From: becky watkins <beckywatkins2002 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: bockpa AT plesh.com, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] cultivated ginseng
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:56:40 -0700 (PDT)

WOW!!!! That was very interesting!!! Thank you! Becky
--- "Paul A. Bock" <bockpa AT plesh.com> wrote:
> 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
> -----Original Message-----
> From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On
> Behalf Of Del Williams
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 4:28 PM
> To: Market Farming
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] cultivated ginseng
>
>
> Ginseng as a controlled substance.
>
> Thinking, thinking.
>
> We're not talking poinsettias...
>
> Nope, don't know of any reason why you can't
> cultivate it and worry about
> trademarks.
>
> There are several types of ginseng. Which are you
> thinking about growing?
>
> Del Williams
> Clifton, IL
>
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