Nobody in his right mind would do that with corn, soybeans, alfalfa, or any other farm crop. And this is a farm crop. We have to get away from the practice of inbreeding seeds in captive type situations. It shortens the life span of the plant. With constant repetitious inbreeding, a plant that should be living sixty or seventy years in the wild with no help, we are lucky if we can keep alive ten years.
Nobody seems to look at cross breeding seeds.
We can rejuvenate ginseng itself. We are crop number 70 and we get handled like we are right straight out of the stone age. There are special laws in Wisconsin prohibiting the use of pesticides on ginseng that are legal to use on potatoes. We are going to grow the plant out of existence if we continue these practices. What we need are seed growers, growing top quality ginseng seeds.