NOVELTY - Planting Gentiana macrophylla, by harvesting seeds, selecting seeds, packing selected seeds in cotton bags, maintaining variable temperature conditions during storage of seeds, processing seeds by soaking seeds in gibberellin solution, applying e.g. urea on soil, applying base fertilizer and diluted phoxim on soil, plowing land area, preparing ridges and furrows, removing annual and perennial weeds, covering ridges with mulching film, sowing processed seeds in holes, applying herbicide on soil, top-dressing urea, and transplanting hardened seedlings.    USE - The method is useful for planting G.macrophylla which is used as medicinal herb in Tibetan medicine.    ADVANTAGE - The method enables plantation of large number of seedlings, and large-scale cultivation of the G.macrophylla. The method effectively protects wildlife resources, suppresses grasslands formed by destruction of the G.macrophylla, and provides significant social and economic benefits.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Method for planting Gentiana macrophylla, involves (a) (i) harvesting seeds and selecting seeds having vigorous growth, where the seeds are obtained from 3 years old plants during second year after plantation when most of capsular fruits turn yellow and contain brown seeds, by cutting the capsular fruits using scissors, placing the fruits under shade for 7-8 days and crushing dried fruits to obtain seeds, (ii) packing selected seeds having 10-13% moisture content in storage cotton bags for not greater than 12 months, and (iii) maintaining variable temperature conditions during storage of seeds, preferably storing the seeds at 10-20 degrees C until end of the November month, at 5 degrees C to -3 degrees C until end of the December month, at 0 degrees C to -6 degrees C until end of the January month, at -3 degrees C to 5 degrees C until end of the February month, at 10-15 degrees C until end of the March month, and at 15-20 degrees C until end of the April month, processing stored seeds before being sown by soaking the seeds in 10 ug/g gibberellin solution for 20 hours to obtain processed seeds having 90-95% germination rate, (b) (i) applying decomposed organic fertilizer at a rate of 1000-2000 kg/0.067 hm2 before sowing the seeds, diammonium phosphate (DAP) at a rate of 15-20 kg/0.067 hm2, or urea at a rate of 10-15 kg/0.067 hm2 and calcium superphosphate at a rate of 80-100 kg/0.067 hm2 on soil, and further applying inorganic fertilizer and organic fertilizer simultaneously as base fertilizer on the soil, (ii) spreading manure and fertilizers evenly on the soil, applying solution prepared by diluting 0.5% phoxim granules up to 100 times with water at a rate of 1.5-2.5 kg/0.067 hm2 on surface of the soil, plowing selected land area and leveling plowed soil, (iii) preparing smooth surfaced small ridges having width of 80 m and furrows having depth of 10-20 cm on the plowed soil, and maintaining spacing of 20 cm between the ridges, (iv) removing annual and perennial weeds from the soil before sowing the seeds, (v) selecting thin black mulching film having width of 100 cm and thickness of 0.010-0.015 mm, covering the ridges with the mulching film up to width of 80 cm and height up to 10-20 cm over entire zone up to 80 cm, and covering the furrows up to a width of 20 cm, (vi) preparing 4 rows, making plantation holes having diameter of 1-4 cm and depth of 3-6 cm, where spacing between the rows is 15-25 cm and holes is 10-20 cm, (vii) sowing selected and processed seeds in the holes during early April to early June and applying glyphosate on sown seeds after 1-2 weeks, where (viii) seeding density is 850-1350 seeds/m2, seeding rate is 6-12 kg/hm2, the seeds are mixed fine soil before being sown, the soil is crushed, sieved through sieve and finally covered with finely grounded cow dung manure up to a height of 0.2-0.3 cm, and (ix) timely observing grown seedlings 80 days after being sown, filling gaps formed between the seedlings, retaining 3-7 seedlings in a row and obtaining seedlings at a density of 35000-40000/hm2, (c) applying herbicide on the soil 30 days after sowing of seeds, cutting the weeds arising from base portion of the seedlings, performing winter management and mulching the soil for preventing trampling or grazing by livestock, top-dressing urea at a rate of 40 kg/hm2, spraying 0.3% potassium dihydrogen phosphate at a rate of 10 kg/hm2, and (d) (i) pulling out 2 years old seedlings having diameter of 0.3 cm or more from the soil during late April without damaging the roots of the seedlings, and (ii) transplanting hardened seedlings.