Grow Super Nutritious Goji Berries At Home
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Date: 2022-07-18
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Emeraldwitch30
Wonderful video. I have about 40 seedlings going right now as some sites id read said they don't always germinate well so I over planted lol. I do have family to take the babies that I don't have room for.
They are very robust so far even here in the house under lights. There is about 8 more weeks before I can plant here in michigan but im hoping when warmer weather moves in I can put in my hoop house for hardening off.
I just bought 4 more led grow lights for my huge set of seedlings for the garden this year. My hubby will be grabbing me a new stainless steel shelf from sams club this week to get it set up. I'm running out of room on my old set up.
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Wonderful video. I have about 40 seedlings going right now as some sites id read said they don't always germinate well so I over planted lol. I do have family to take the babies that I don't have room for.
They are very robust so far even here in the house under lights. There is about 8 more weeks before I can plant here in michigan but im hoping when warmer weather moves in I can put in my hoop house for hardening off.
I just bought 4 more led grow lights for my huge set of seedlings for the garden this year. My hubby will be grabbing me a new stainless steel shelf from sams club this week to get it set up. I'm running out of room on my old set up.
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Pennydox
My parents have one goji berry plant, and it's a few feet taller than your potted one, and they train it upright by just sticking it inside a giant, tall tomato cage-shaped thing, and so the goji berry plant takes less space in our backyard but has large yield due to the way it was trained to grow--very skinny tall to reach the sun, and minimize the shade it drops, so that more sun loving plants can grow nearby. We dry our goji berries for making soup, and there's enough in the spring/summer harvest to last all the way to the next year! Cantonese style goji leaf soup is one of my favorite green soups: 3
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My parents have one goji berry plant, and it's a few feet taller than your potted one, and they train it upright by just sticking it inside a giant, tall tomato cage-shaped thing, and so the goji berry plant takes less space in our backyard but has large yield due to the way it was trained to grow--very skinny tall to reach the sun, and minimize the shade it drops, so that more sun loving plants can grow nearby. We dry our goji berries for making soup, and there's enough in the spring/summer harvest to last all the way to the next year! Cantonese style goji leaf soup is one of my favorite green soups: 3
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Bonnie
Excellent video. Gojis grow abundantly here in drought ridden central california. I started mine from dried berries from the health food store when plants were still hard to come by. They can spread outwards from the root zone but are easily managed. Also they can be thorny so place accordingly. When other foods are scarce, birds will eat the leaves but it has no long term effect. The berries are a favorite of the mockingbird here. The hummingbirds love the tiny blossoms. I've seen videos where the plant is grown more for leaves to make soup. Good to have in permaculture, survival type gardens. Thanks
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Excellent video. Gojis grow abundantly here in drought ridden central california. I started mine from dried berries from the health food store when plants were still hard to come by. They can spread outwards from the root zone but are easily managed. Also they can be thorny so place accordingly. When other foods are scarce, birds will eat the leaves but it has no long term effect. The berries are a favorite of the mockingbird here. The hummingbirds love the tiny blossoms. I've seen videos where the plant is grown more for leaves to make soup. Good to have in permaculture, survival type gardens. Thanks
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Lydia
Mine was bought this spring from Sams 2 bare roots in a package. I put them both into a 20 gallon nursery pot I got free from people who were planting on the sides of the street for the city. Planted in Living soil I got for free than some people who had grown hemp in it, but were moving their business and had not grown in the soil a couple of years. I am zone 7b I think in Tennessee. Today is July 17 and I have one cute little flower and lots of buds.
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Mine was bought this spring from Sams 2 bare roots in a package. I put them both into a 20 gallon nursery pot I got free from people who were planting on the sides of the street for the city. Planted in Living soil I got for free than some people who had grown hemp in it, but were moving their business and had not grown in the soil a couple of years. I am zone 7b I think in Tennessee. Today is July 17 and I have one cute little flower and lots of buds.
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Helen
A word of warning particularly in warmer climates (even if you get hard frosts in winter) this plant has the capabilities to become a very toxic environmental weed. It took years to get it out of my garden (it was in a raised bed) and I still have to watch out for it every year as it popped up unexpectedly about a year ago. Any plant that is so easy to grow and propagate has the potential to become an environmental weed so be aware.
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A word of warning particularly in warmer climates (even if you get hard frosts in winter) this plant has the capabilities to become a very toxic environmental weed. It took years to get it out of my garden (it was in a raised bed) and I still have to watch out for it every year as it popped up unexpectedly about a year ago. Any plant that is so easy to grow and propagate has the potential to become an environmental weed so be aware.
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TrashcatLinol
I swear i've seen goji seeds in a store here somewhere. my husband was wanting to plant fruit where the locals could pick some. (We live near a school, We talked about growing pawpaws, and now i'm interested in goji!
Do you have any information on growing burdock? If you take requests for videos at all, i'm curious! I have never seen it, but it's supposed to have wonderful autumn flavor!
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I swear i've seen goji seeds in a store here somewhere. my husband was wanting to plant fruit where the locals could pick some. (We live near a school, We talked about growing pawpaws, and now i'm interested in goji!
Do you have any information on growing burdock? If you take requests for videos at all, i'm curious! I have never seen it, but it's supposed to have wonderful autumn flavor!
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Gris
Great info Chris. I'm in California zone 9a. Hot, dry climate. Goji does grow fast and unruly, full of thrones. It's growing in a raised bed and sending out runners like crazy. Even coming up at lawn level from raised bed above! Glad it can be severely pruned. It is a highly nutritious fruit. We mix them into shakes or add to hot oates cereal. I would recommend container grown at least in my area.
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Great info Chris. I'm in California zone 9a. Hot, dry climate. Goji does grow fast and unruly, full of thrones. It's growing in a raised bed and sending out runners like crazy. Even coming up at lawn level from raised bed above! Glad it can be severely pruned. It is a highly nutritious fruit. We mix them into shakes or add to hot oates cereal. I would recommend container grown at least in my area.
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Dee
Ok, so I have been experimenting with goji for 6 years. I have tried several different cultivars and have never had any fruit get even as large as a small pea. The plants have all been prolific and spread like raspberries. I have just finally decided to cut my losses and just use it around the outside of my garden fence to help keep the deer at bay.
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Ok, so I have been experimenting with goji for 6 years. I have tried several different cultivars and have never had any fruit get even as large as a small pea. The plants have all been prolific and spread like raspberries. I have just finally decided to cut my losses and just use it around the outside of my garden fence to help keep the deer at bay.
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innes
From Scotland. we have a goji in the same plot as gooseberry & blackcurrant bushes and a pear tree, everything else has produced fruit except the goji! We get plenty of leaves and it has grown in size incredibly but produced no fruit. Do you have any suggestions. I've taken note of the fertiliser ratio. Thank you: )
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From Scotland. we have a goji in the same plot as gooseberry & blackcurrant bushes and a pear tree, everything else has produced fruit except the goji! We get plenty of leaves and it has grown in size incredibly but produced no fruit. Do you have any suggestions. I've taken note of the fertiliser ratio. Thank you: )
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Terri
Nothing to do with goji, but I noticed that you were complaining about Earwigs on your video. We use little tuna or cat food size containers filled just a little with cheap oils like vegetable or corn or whatever and in the morning find them filled with dead earwigs. It helps to control them.
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Nothing to do with goji, but I noticed that you were complaining about Earwigs on your video. We use little tuna or cat food size containers filled just a little with cheap oils like vegetable or corn or whatever and in the morning find them filled with dead earwigs. It helps to control them.
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EVERBEE
When you said that Goji berries were easy to grow, you weren't joking. I'm pleased to report that the pot full of cuttings I took about 3 weeks ago, have all taken root, and I'm very happy to say that I now have 5 new strong and healthy little Goji berry starts. Thanks again for the tips.
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When you said that Goji berries were easy to grow, you weren't joking. I'm pleased to report that the pot full of cuttings I took about 3 weeks ago, have all taken root, and I'm very happy to say that I now have 5 new strong and healthy little Goji berry starts. Thanks again for the tips.
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Isabelle
Chris! I love your way of explaining! And funny enough, I just bought a package of goji seeds yesterday (Lycium barbarum. I'm near Ottawa, so my growing conditions are much different. But how long do you keep the plant indoor when starting from seed?
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Chris! I love your way of explaining! And funny enough, I just bought a package of goji seeds yesterday (Lycium barbarum. I'm near Ottawa, so my growing conditions are much different. But how long do you keep the plant indoor when starting from seed?
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Ruth
Watch out for the thorns, they're vicious! I had a prunning accident with a goji and it drove one of those thorns so deep into a knuckle that the tip embedded and broke off in the tendon. It took an A&E (ER) visit to get it removed.
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Watch out for the thorns, they're vicious! I had a prunning accident with a goji and it drove one of those thorns so deep into a knuckle that the tip embedded and broke off in the tendon. It took an A&E (ER) visit to get it removed.
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Kzer
My experience with Goji in TX was that it basically became an invasive weed. I dug them out years ago and I am still Cohiba them out every year. Thank God I'm moving soon and won't have to deal with it anymore.
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My experience with Goji in TX was that it basically became an invasive weed. I dug them out years ago and I am still Cohiba them out every year. Thank God I'm moving soon and won't have to deal with it anymore.
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