Wanted
Commercial Growers For
Glacial Gold Ginseng Seeds
(Panax Quinquefolium) American
Ginseng
Ginseng is a unisexual plant, and when trying to develop a top
quality seed, the rules are a little different. The problem is that the majority of
the ginseng seeds on the market are some what inbred. The growers have not been
handling their ginseng seeds like they do their corn seed. The way to overcome this
problem is to cross breed different strains of ginseng seeds together. This will create a
new strain of Ginseng seeds. It is the object of Glacial Ginseng Company to gather
the very best seed available, by going right to the growers and seeing the plants that
they come from. The Ginseng seeds that are produced from these select crossbreeds
will be known as "Glacial Gold Ginseng Seeds" and
should prove to be just outstanding plants.
The continued cross
breeding of these seeds will in time reproduce the true natural ginseng plant. Ginseng
plants will start producing seeds in the second year and reach good marketability in
7 years. They can have a life span of 60 to70 years. I always let the first three
years of seeds go back, they seem to have a real strong reproductive rate as younger
plants. These plants will go on to replace the weaker plants that nature will thin
out. In your fourth year you will generally go into full size seed pods. For
the next five to six years you will have some outstanding Ginseng Seeds. After the
seventh year they can start to become inbred again. If you continue to add new
stains of Ginseng seeds your beds can be productive for many generations to come.
Market Report For the Season of '99!!
7 Year old Woodsgrown Ginseng roots went for $90.00 to$130.00 per pound. Wild
Ginseng roots at $425.00 per pound.
8 to 10 year old top quality ginseng roots were bring the same as wild. It takes 70
to 75 dry roots to make a pound. There are appo. 35,000 Ginseng seeds in our 5 pound
ginseng seed kit, now at $6.00 a root, think about it.
What we are starting to see here is acceptance of the woodsgrown ginseng roots by the
export market. The export market looks at the appearance of the Ginseng root first.
Small roots are much more desired, plant your ginseng seeds close, this will
encourage small roots and intertwined roots.
5 Pound
Ginseng Seed Special"
"Glacial Gold"
Ginseng Seed Kit $349.95 (US)
Includes everything you need to start growing your own Ginseng: Five
Pounds (Appo. 35,000 Seeds) of
Stratified Cross Bred "Glacial Gold" Ginseng Seeds, Including Woods Grown, "Ginseng
Growers Guide" by Michael Hunter, Soil Testing
Kit, Performs 10 Tests for
Proper PH (Proper PH for Ginseng is 5.5 to 6.5) and 20 Survey Flags (These Metal Survey Flags
Draw Static Electricity During Storms and this releases the Nitrogen Trapped in The
Decomposing Forest Floor.) Should be Planted on about 22,000
square feet.
Glacial
Ginseng Company's "Secure Order Form"
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Don't worry about Deer and Turkeys etc. If you put some
coyote urine around your patch the Wildlife will simply go around the patch. Works
real good on gardens too.
As the Ginsenosides level
(potency) of the ginseng increases so does the value of the mature root . Woods grown
ginseng grown in hardwood timber lots has the highest levels of nature's nutrients
available during the developmental stage. The "virgin" soil of hardwood timber
lots produces ginseng that matches Ginsenosides levels found in wild naturally occurring
ginseng.
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Ginsenosides Levels: The Herbal
Industry has been making great strides in the area of self regulation and product
information. As I have many times mentioned, the difference in the ginsenosides
levels of field cultivated roots versus woods grown roots is very important. Up
until now, we have had no where to really send our roots or other ginseng products to have
them tested. A company in California sent me a card and advised me that they
provided this type of service. I have called them, talked with them personally, they
know their business, they can analyze our roots, and virtually, any other herbal medicine
products. You might want to take a look at their web site: www.phytoanalytics.com The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers are going to be putting the active
ingredients and present levels that they contain on their labels. They won't be buying
ginseng roots with a 4% ginsenosides levels . Our plants will produce a much higher level,
therefore making "Glacial Gold Ginseng Seeds" the very BEST in the world.
Starting At $19.95 (US)
Ginseng Seed Kits
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We do have a new process for
handling ginseng seeds to increase not only the germination factor but to create back to
the original plant. We can get into the little sister’s effect. I’ve got some
pictures showing where these little seedlings have come up under 3 year old plantings and
these were cross-bred seeds, so the genetic pattern in those young ones coming up is
already there.
Ginseng is a unisexual plant that can have 2 to 3 seeds in a single pod, they can all
three have different fathers and yet the genetic pattern of all the seeds are being taken
up and become a part of the genetic pattern of the plant itself. Therefore first
generation seeds can be really good, by the time you’ve reached the fourth, your
weaker plants will have died back. Your stronger strain seeds, the more natural type
plants have come forward and you should wind up in four years time with almost 100% yield
and maybe plus. Keep your seed beds close in. Don’t encourage large roots, the market
doesn’t want that. This has to be a constant balance between the commercial aspects
of growing ginseng, so that we don’t harvest our wild ginseng totally out of
existence. The whole purpose of publicizing the facts about the germination and
stratification processes that we’re using here is to encourage it to be used through
the industry by the growers.
We can not only reestablish an endangered species into the natural habitat within my
lifetime, we can go on to make it universally available for its medicinal purposes to the
entire world. We don’t know where all this plant will grow, we know it’s
basically a colder weather, higher climate type plant, it likes mineralized soils, such as
we find on the ancient glacial deposits here in southern Michigan, northern Wisconsin, on
into Minnesota. Similar soils are into the Carolinas and mountainous regions of Kentucky
and Tennessee. What the ginsenosides level of these plants will be, we don’t know
these answers yet. We encourage feedback from all our growers, we need commercial
growers out here that have the appropriate suitable sites. Do you think your site is
suitable, send us up a picture or two. We’ll e-mail you back an opinion.
These Ginseng seeds are washed,
float tested and decontaminated prior to packaging. The individual portions of seeds are
wrapped in cheese cloth while still moist, placed inside an appropriate sized plastic
baggie and sealed. This during normal shipment starts your germination right there. These
seeds have always been in a closely controlled environment, never really subject to
frequent temperature variations. This is a part of our continued stratification process
that we have developed here at Glacial Ginseng through our research. When these packets
are sealed moist, it traps the moisture within the plastic bag. When you receive your
shipments at your home, place it in your refrigerator. You’re giving cool steady
environments, you’re not exposed to radical changes. You can watch these seeds
germinate your own self, from the time you get them, you will see them develop. All you
really have to do is to turn the the package over once in a while. The constant
temperature will let the embryo develop slowly. They start germination during shipment
inside of those bags. Leave them sealed. When you get ready to plant, your optimum time to
plant is between the first of March and the 15th of April. Seeds planted in this time
period should yield maximum yields. They should really start to be just indexing.
As spring progresses and the thawing cycles begin, it triggers
the germination within the ginseng seed. Spring planting will many times yield better
results than fall planting. Your planting window is much briefer and Mother Nature is very
much in charge. You can plant anytime from the 15th of February to the 15th of April.
Ginseng normally comes up around the 15th of April. It takes from four to six weeks for
the plants to come up after planting.
A lot of the growers that are staying in business are going to
the woods, that low end market for ginseng grown under artificial shade just isn't there
any more. They call that type of root poor-man's ginseng, and when the Asian trade
was good, the market was there. The ginseng market is changing rapidly, i.e.;
roots grown under artificial shade produce Ginsenosides levels of 4 and 5%
versus woods grown roots that produce Ginsenosides levels of 11 to 19%. These
growers aren't entirely out of the business. They just aren't putting in fresh
crops under artificial shade, they are going to the woods. Over the next three or
four years this is going to cause a real shortage of quality ginseng roots, many
manufacturers and large end users are going to come up short. The internet is
educating us about the potency of our product and major American manufacturers are going
self-regulating. Rexall Sundowner is leading the way with their new rotating labels
on their herbal medicine products and disclosing the active ingredients. The future
has never looked brighter for our woods grown ginseng growers.
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