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Post by Harley on May 30, 2007 7:06:29 GMT -5
I have recently discovered a very large patch of woods that is covered in this stuff. My dad has been hunting it his whole life and as a child I spent many of my days following behind him grabbing every piece of ivy asking if that was the plant we were looking for. Well anyways I was just curious who the fellow ginsengers were.
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Post by gundude on May 30, 2007 17:14:32 GMT -5
I hunt it about every year Harley. Been doing it since I was a kid. Great fun and worth the time if you know what to look for.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on May 31, 2007 6:22:48 GMT -5
As much fun as mushroom hunting, and pays better.
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Post by kevin1 on May 31, 2007 11:44:01 GMT -5
You sound like you need help with it, PM your location and I'll be right over.  ;D |
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Post by LawrenceCoBowhunter on May 31, 2007 16:02:29 GMT -5
I have been watching a ridge full of it for a few years nows,going to get it this year or next.
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Post by bigbuck on Jun 3, 2007 18:33:00 GMT -5
I'm interested. What's it look like and how do you use it, or eat it?  |
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Post by LawrenceCoBowhunter on Jun 20, 2007 14:42:48 GMT -5
I'm interested. What's it look like and how do you use it, or eat it?  |
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Post by hoosierdaddy on Jul 9, 2007 16:22:45 GMT -5
I used to dig it up until about 15 years ago.I dug enough the year I was 11 years old to buy my first pump shotgun.A sweet little 870 Wingmaster 20 gauge.Its so dug out around here now that I don't even bother with it.I would rather leave the few I find for seed.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2007 19:51:19 GMT -5
planted some seeds 2years ago finaly came up looking pretty good
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Post by Sleazy E on Aug 12, 2007 20:23:09 GMT -5
I hunted it when I was younger..... I have not looked for it for years.... Everyone around here hunts it... get more tresspassers hunting Ginsing than hunting deer.
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Post by DUCKMASTER1 on Aug 19, 2007 19:48:46 GMT -5
I have allways wanted to hunt for it, but never knew what it looked like, now I know. But what type of growth does it grow in, any suggestions?
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Post by WhoDey78 on Aug 20, 2007 7:59:14 GMT -5
I don't see enough ginseng to make it worth digging. I'm excited just to see a plant, so I'd rather leave it to diversfy the forest and maintain a healthy ecosystem.
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Post by Mockingbird on Aug 27, 2007 20:18:03 GMT -5
I grew up digging "sang" in the mtns. I was taught that if you did not put a seed from that plant back in the hole the root came from you would be cursed and some horrible fate would befall you on your way out of the mtns. Also we were to never dig anything less than a three prong. I dig some sang each year mostly for my own use but I also sell some occassionally. I spend a lot of time planting the seeds so that there will be some wild left for the future. Because of the abuse there are some very stringent rules now. The season gets shorter and shorter and the age requirements older and older. Be sure if you dig that you replant the seeds and obey the laws. If everyone did that we would have plenty of sang today. But conservation and morality cannot be legislated it must be taught.And so the story goes.
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Post by WhoDey78 on Aug 29, 2007 10:57:38 GMT -5
The biology of the fruit would suggest that to properly scarify the seed before planting the seed must pass through the gut of an animal, such as a bird. The stomach acids should break down the outer lining of the seed to aid in germination. Allowing nature to take its course would probably increase the number of seeds that germinate and ultimately increase the number of plants.
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