GINSENG!!!Wild Simulated TIPS & GUIDE walkthrough

[@scampos9881]

I hope this message finds you well and thank you so much for sharing your wild simulated ginseng! Have you considered planting other forest plants like ramps and goldenseal?

[@downsteamstudio]

Thanks. Yes I have considered planting goldenseal and st. John's wort. I also grow mushrooms. I'm really just getting started in forest farming

[@PeterPyo]

great video man! its now been a year. do you have an update video??

[@downsteamstudio]

Thanks! I have plans on doing an update I'm currently learning new editing software and have a couple projects in front of this one

[@HyperHyena88]

What kind of trees are in the area ? I think i see allot of oak leaves on the ground and I heard its hard for the ginseng to poke up through oak leaves. I planted some where there are some oaks and they did good. Sweet patch. Im gonna do this every year from now on for me and my son.

[@downsteamstudio]

Yes alot of oaks. I have some planted near beech trees and they seem to do the best. Stay away from pines. Good luck with your seng!

[@notcharles]

Where did you get the seeds?

[@downsteamstudio]

online supplier

[@dwadecolburn8642]

11lb!! Kudos friend!! 5 is enough for me, I never thin until the 3rd year because of natural die off, attrition. Good job.

[@HyperHyena88]

I didn't know about the 3 year thing, i thinned some I planted last year and transplanted them in a different spot. Thats good to know.

[@Coolnesski]

Which trail cams do you recommend?

[@downsteamstudio]

The brand I'm using is K&F. If I remember correctly. Works great so far. I have a older Primo also

[@roadkillavenger1325]

You're wrong about 2 prongs being 2 years old. Well, right and wrong. A giant 4 prong, if something happens to it's rhizome, will oftentimes only produce a small 2 prong stem. I have seen 40 year old 2 prongs more often than I can count. And before you say I'm doing something illegal, I do not harvest 2 year old roots. They have to have at least 4 internodes on the rhizome where I live. I'm just stating the fact that trying to age a plant by it's stem and leaves is commonly highly innacurate. Of course if you plant your own roots, you can keep track of all of that yourself. Ginseng science is pitifully lacking at best.

[@downsteamstudio]

This is a wild simulated video as stated. This means everything is planted and keep track of. I'm showing tips for wild SIM. This is mainly for people wanting to plant and see what it's about. Not really talking about wild plants or the occasion when something happens to a plant to cause other problems. This is all seeds I planted, this not my first time. I have roughly 100k ginseng plants I can show you what years of horticulture experience can make your ginseng plants look like every year

[@roadkillavenger1325]

@@downsteamstudio Exactly what I said. I said if you planted them then you can keep track of their true age. I don't get why they call this "wild simulated". Each time you dig a wild ginseng root, you're supposed to plant it's seeds in the same general area as the parent plant... As far as I'm concerned, that automatically makes the seeds that you planted "wild simulated". The difference between WILD and WILD SIMULATED comes down to whether you physically touched the seeds or not. Wild and wild simulated is one and the same. There's no difference. We've been planting the seeds of parent plants for a very long time. This means it would be next to impossible to find a real wild plant. I think "wild simulated" is just about the dumbest term that was ever created in the world of ginseng. It's completely unnecessary. I don't even know why we use it. There's no difference between a manually planted maple tree VS a wild maple tree. They both grow exactly the same. There's no difference between honey harvested from a wild bee hive VS honey harvested from a beekeeper's hive box. There's no difference between ginseng a person has grown from a seed VS ginseng that has never been touched by a human, so long as you let nature alone raise the plants. People all across the world have wild animals as pets (deer, raccoons, lions, bears, etc), but those animals are still considered to be wild animals no matter how much contact they've had with humans.