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last weekend i poted up some goji berry seeds,now the seeds are a bout 1" tall .has anybody grown these from seed any advice?

http://www.gojistop.com/How-to-Cultivate-Goji-Berry-Seeds.html

Grew some last year, they seemed to take a long time to take off.  Now waiting for them to fruit.  Not clear whether this will be another year or two.

I think that the plants end up quite big, so I think I planted them much too close.

I agree with the advice (in the link) about using surprisingly big pots - my goji seedlings in normal sized 'first' pots (7cm) hardly grew, the ones I happened to put in bigger pots got much bigger.

I tried using jiffys on the next batch to reduce transplanting but the pot size seemed to make more difference even though they start off looking just silly. I normally avoid using pots too big because when the plant can't use the moisture it encourages waterlogging.

I don't have room to give them any more of what they want so I'm hoping they will take off when I plant them in open ground next spring.

Cheers.

Mine certainly took off once they had been planted out.  They are now quite sturdy plants about a meter plus high.  Those that I pricked out the growing tip have several stems and some of the others only one.  Some are prickly and one is very prickly.

But I did not sow the seeds until January.  Surprisingly they still have leaves on them even though we have already had a frost.