Goji goodness

Anyone growing goji berries? They're a nutrient dense superfood rich in anti oxidants and protein.
I've been buying packages and eating them a lot but they're pricey so I'm gonna start some seeds and plant them in large pots.
Lycium barbarum also called wolf berry, matrimony vine and boxthorn is a SE European and Chinese native used in tea making and medicine for hundreds of years.
The plant is in the Solinacea family, same as deadly nightshade, potatoes, tomatoes and peppers. The flowers all look similar, thus the connection, morphologically speaking.
You can eat the tart tasting berrys fresh or dry them and they get sweeter. Great for use in granola, scones, oatmeal and wine making. They're said to lower blood pressure, lower fever, combat age related eye problems and the Chinese use them in all kinds of medicinal recipes.
There are many species of Lycium that produce similar berries. L. barbarum and L. chinense are generally considered the goji berry. The two species are closely related.


Articles and references
http://www.phoenixtearsnursery.com/wolfberries-as-good-as-it-can-get.html
https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapai/anr/hort/byg/archive/growinggoji.html

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Thanks for the links, never grown them before, but planted a small gogi bush in a raised bed yesterday along with a few other berry bushes, probably a little late in the season really, but should be well established by next year.

DonBrennon said:

Thanks for the links, never grown them before, but planted a small gogi bush in a raised bed yesterday along with a few other berry bushes, probably a little late in the season really, but should be well established by next year.

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They're amazingly hardy. Ima grow some in pots and see if I can't offset some of this money I'm spending on 4oz packages for $7 a piece.

dannyboy602 said:

Anyone growing goji berries? They're a nutrient dense superfood rich in anti oxidants and protein.
I've been buying packages and eating them a lot but they're pricey so I'm gonna start some seeds and plant them in large pots.
Lycium barbarum also called wolf berry, matrimony vine and boxthorn is a SE European and Chinese native used in tea making and medicine for hundreds of years.
The plant is in the Solinacea family, same as deadly nightshade, potatoes, tomatoes and peppers. The flowers all look similar, thus the connection, morphologically speaking.
You can eat the tart tasting berrys fresh or dry them and they get sweeter. Great for use in granola, scones, oatmeal and wine making. They're said to lower blood pressure, lower fever, combat age related eye problems and the Chinese use them in all kinds of medicinal recipes.
There are many species of Lycium that produce similar berries. L. barbarum and L. chinense are generally considered the goji berry. The two species are closely related.

Articles and references
http://www.phoenixtearsnursery.com/wolfberries-as-good-as-it-can-get.html
https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapai/anr/hort/byg/archive/growinggoji.html

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I always wanted to try a goji berry .berries are poisonous if not picked fully ripe . I want to try more varieties of berries some day I will plant some .great thread

weedhead24 said:

I always wanted to try a goji berry .berries are poisonous if not picked fully ripe . I want to try more varieties of berries some day I will plant some .great thread

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thx...yeah the goji plant is in the same family as the poisonous plants but the fruits aren't poisonous...didn't know the unripe berries were poisonous though...that's a really good point, thanks for pointing that out. Here's a pic of my recently germinated Lycium barbarum. I'll separate them in a couple weeks...interesting side note: the seeds I bought off Amazon didn't germinate. Not one. I gave those fuckers bottom heat, lots of love and loose, we'll drained soil. I was pissed. However I also buy dried gojis and saw a youtube vid where I could hydrate the dried berries in a glass of water overnight, squeeze the plumped up fruits and harvest the seeds which I assumed wouldn't even be viable after having baked in the hot sun in some Chinese field somewhere.
But I planted maybe, idk, 20 seeds and got probably 100% germination. Is that a kick in the pants or what?