TOPIC: How do you spell "relief?"

I checked my plantings today, just a few hours ago. Just got back from the mountains, weather was very cooperative while we were there, we literally go in inbetween rainstorms that dumped a whole group of water.

However, the sun shone on us while climbing the hillsides, and i9nspected both rootlets beds and seed beds. I was very happy to see seeds sprouting in all beds we planted, and many rootlets up in the 4 rootlets beds we planted.

Photos below. I'm thinking that these \"bolder\" rootlets have just come up in the pst few days.

and another one of a seedling:

Sorry, this is the same photo....

see the next one.

A seedling, freshly emerged from the leaf mulch.

Ok whit now i want you to climb back up that mountain and take a picture of ginseng...the first 2 pics is definately ginseng but not so sure about the last pic, the leaves look very smooth and round to me...not sure.

You may know it but that last one there is a decidious tree seedling. My first plantings from last year are about 50% emerged. With all the scratching and bed prepping that goes on with planting ginseng you also make it ideal for other seed as well. I have poplar and hickory seedlings coming up all over the place in my beds at this point. I may be wrong but that one looks like a maple from the best I can tell.

Hillhopper

also whit 1 more thing...if the first two pics are from a 3 or 4 year rootlet, then i would say you need another week or so of warm weather before you see much seedlings coming up. It looks like to me that your season is very far behind our season here in tennessee probably by about 3 weeks. most of my ginseng is already up and growing and the forest floor is absolutly covered with plants ferns mayapple most are almost knee high here. I wouldnt stress over it much now that i see how your larger plants are coming up.

Whitjr

Congatrats, on some rootlets emerging!

I would agree with Hillhopper, that the last pic is of a Maple. I get quite a few of those in some of my beds every year along with other kinds of seedlings.

The First Year of Life for a Ginseng Plant :

www.wildgrown.com/index.php/Ginseng-Arti...a-Ginseng-Plant.html

When ginseng seedling emerge they will have three little serrated leaves pointing towards the sky.

classicfur

I hadn't considered tree seedlings.

There are lots of those seedlings all over my beds, and not much else coming up. The rootlets are coming up, as is evident in the first two photos. these were supposed to b e 3 yr olds.

KDuce... Where in Tenn are you? My plantings are in Northern NC. Unless you are in southern Tenn, I would think that thingw would be similar.