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Post by feathers on Sept 14, 2014 16:03:07 GMT -5
Does anybody here harvest this from their place or in the woods of PA? Aways thought about looking for it. Heard it grows on the north side of the mountain and now is the time to scout for it. Maybe I walked past it on my own place, just never gave a thought to it till this year (after watching the series about ginseng down south) them guys get a good buck for it. Suppose to be good for your health. Don't even know what it tastes like. Anybody got any pics of what a real plant looks like in this state?
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Post by bushmaster on Sept 14, 2014 20:07:36 GMT -5
I don't harvest it, but if I did I'd dig a bunch! I found a couple plants yesterday while hanging a stand for archery. It's scattered throughout the woods where I hang out. It's out there, you just have to find it!
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Post by feathers on Sept 15, 2014 13:56:49 GMT -5
sooner or later ....I'll find some, going into the woods around me is like tick heaven right now ....just trying to get an eye ball on what they really look like. Figure something like a may apple with red berries.
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Post by redarrow on Sept 15, 2014 14:51:26 GMT -5
If you find some from Sept on, and you don't want to dig it, plant the seeds in the area and cut the tops off. That way it will be left to grow older, bigger and more valuable. I have never found enough plants that I would bother digging it.
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Post by feathers on Sept 17, 2014 7:25:47 GMT -5
If you find some from Sept on, and you don't want to dig it, plant the seeds in the area and cut the tops off. That way it will be left to grow older, bigger and more valuable. I have never found enough plants that I would bother digging it. Thanx for the advice ....still trying to get an eyeball on some real stuff. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2014 6:35:46 GMT -5
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Post by johns on Sept 18, 2014 7:02:14 GMT -5
That stupid TV show about digging ginseng is probably the worst thing to happen to the plants future. Bunch of hillbilly trespassers and thieves digging roots that are too small to dig to begin with and the buyers who encourage it. I watched the show once, that was more than enough.
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Post by feathers on Sept 18, 2014 13:05:27 GMT -5
lots of good quality information there ....bascially where I would be looking for it would be on my own farm. Never really went looking for ....it is a curious thought. The roots are supposed to heal all kinds of aches and pains.
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Post by redarrow on Sept 21, 2014 10:18:33 GMT -5
Feathers, you can buy seed to plant.
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Post by feathers on Sept 22, 2014 6:25:27 GMT -5
Feathers, you can buy seed to plant. Been thinking about that .....have to do some research into it |
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Post by GlennD on Sept 22, 2014 9:20:05 GMT -5
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Post by Dutch on Sept 23, 2014 4:04:33 GMT -5
I came upon a cluster of red berries this weekend and thought that they may have been ginseng. Thought of burying them in the soil, but didn't.
I wasn't sure if they were from trilliums or ginseng.
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Post by feathers on Sept 23, 2014 19:14:23 GMT -5
Where there is money to be made ....there is always someone looking to get rich quick ....seen several weeks ago in one of the farm weekly's I get, someone from down south is advertising for ginseng around here. |
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Post by feathers on Sept 23, 2014 19:17:06 GMT -5
I came upon a cluster of red berries this weekend and thought that they may have been ginseng. Thought of burying them in the soil, but didn't. I wasn't sure if they were from trilliums or ginseng. I don't think trilliums get red berries .....should have buried the seed, couldn't of hurt |
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Post by Dutch on Sept 23, 2014 19:48:59 GMT -5
I looked up trillium seed pics and these were in a very tight cluster, and the trillium wasn't. There are trilliums all over where I was, and this was the only bunch of berries like it.
My brother mentioned another medicinal plant and I forget which right now, goldenseal? Have to check for pics on that.
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Post by wentzler on Sept 24, 2014 7:32:40 GMT -5
Ginseng is actually fairly rare in the state, and is protected by law.w/ a season and such. Thanks, Mutt..fer posting up. FWIW Ginseng is 'farmed' fairly extensively in Ontario, no known rotational return cycle. i.e. Once a 'crop' is harvested the soil will not grow another crop in an interval yet to be known. The plant was nearly completely extirpated in PA by the end of the Great Depression, and most of it's range has yet to show a return of the plant. It exists in my stomping grounds only in a scant few extremely isolated and well hidden locations. I know of only about six such locations spread widely over about as many counties. I never disturb them, I have never shown one individual their locations. The vast majority of folks mistakenly identify about four other look alikes as Sang. I'm pretty much w/ Shutter, perhaps even a bit more enthusiastic in my nausea w/ 'reality' TV. And the Outdoor Channel as well. Leave it to modern media to glorify the despicable  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 7:39:27 GMT -5
I get a kick out of what the "Nutworks" call "reality TV," Ed. For example, the program Survivor. If it were true reality about survival, participants would not vote others off the island, they would kill and eat them.  |
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Post by fleroo on Sept 24, 2014 8:14:12 GMT -5
One of the first reality shows that completely scared the sh$% out of me, "The Osbourne's". |
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Post by Goosehunter on Oct 11, 2014 11:03:32 GMT -5
So I come to this forum to ask about Ginseng and low and behold there's an ongoing thread about the Ginseng. This pic comes from somewhere, deep in the forests of NC Pa. Is this Ginseng??  |
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Post by timberdoodle on Oct 11, 2014 14:06:13 GMT -5
yep
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Post by feathers on Oct 11, 2014 16:19:05 GMT -5
now I have an idea .....thanx for sharing the pic!
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Post by Goosehunter on Oct 11, 2014 17:33:59 GMT -5
Thanks Timber.
Amazing what is growing these days with so few deer.
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