Topic: Goji berry - Disgusting!

[Digeroo]

Mine are certainly very scraggy indeed, looked good small, but now the west wind has not been kind to them.

3 metres sounds like a tree, they are not allowed, so I will have to keep it cut back.

Not sure we will have enough sun to get them dried.

[flossy]

  Actualy I AM interested in these large prickly plants, .........   have just had a close encounter

  with cat ''  pressies  ''  on my lawn !   have just had to scrub and dissenfect right throw our home'

    ................ grrrrrrr 1^*$)*&!,   need some planting to grow across the fencing. >:(

   It sounds like Goji plants grow like bamboo ?     straight up --  or bushy with it ?

   Would love to see a pic of any full grown ones,   please,     :)

 

[angle shades]

 :) been listening to local radio garden phone in today,

Goji berry- foul tasting, more iron than steak,more vit c than grapefruit,good for getting rid of cellulite ;D ;D ;D ;D

don't grow from seed- buy a year old plant from a nursery so plant is completely hardy before you plant it.... or you will get weak, spindly plants

Makes a good hedging plant.

Hopes this helps/ shades x

[BockingBill]

When can you prune them as we have about 12 of the little darlings?

[Andy H]

we put 2 plants in the fruit cage on the alotment and they went mad!
grow up about 3 feet then head towards the ground, they were everywhere, running along the ground so I did a few wigwams and back-tracked them in circles to keep them away from the netting. today we picked the berries. picked about 2 pints of them, gonna make a drink out of some and maybe try and dry some out.

Wandered round the plots today offering them to people and they seemed to like them and many knew the great benefits of them, better than blueberries and the new superfruit etc.

They are a bit bitter but not inedible! also similar properties to viagra so may eat the lot to test it!!!! ;D

[artichoke]

Forgive me for repeating this, but I am a fan of Blackmoor nursery, received an email from them advertising their goji berries with an enticing picture of a twig dripping with beautiful red berries, and emailed to ask them when their berries ripen, as I am fed up with my 2 bushes which are huge in spite of regular pruning, flowered a lot in early October, and are clearly NOT going to produce ripe berries. He wrote a helpful answer which I show below.

My son has a Thai/Chinese wife whose very lively and beautiful Chinese mother (in her 70s) eats dried goji berries as a matter of daily routine. Never fresh. They are a bit like raisins. I am very disappointed with my bushes, and am thinking of buying one from Blackmoors as a last attempt.

By the way, they grow incredibly easily from cuttings, survive drought, and I am sure I will never manage to dig them up. Here is the Blackmoor email again:


Jon Munday <jonmunday@blackmoor.co.uk>
The Goji berry is a little new to me too but from my experience of growing the fruits (3 years now)
They flower here in Hampshire late Aug-early September. The image shown on the website and email was taken on Monday this week so from the early flowers they take around 6 weeks to form and ripen. As you say they are rather vigorous and I have several systems for growing them and the best seems to grow them upright with support and keep any side growth trimmed several times during the growing year.