Goji berry bush help!
 

Got one of these from a guy and it was doing great a week ago and flowered. In its pot it had several feelers. They all died and flowers didn't leave any developing fruit. Other parts have yellow leaves. Now I haven't gotten a answer back from the guy. But I placed the pot in all day full sun. But with the hurricane all this week it has seen almost two weeks of rain.
Is the water intake to much or the sun or both?
I placed it under our picnic table umbrella now.
Thanks for any insight!

Re: Goji berry bush help!
 

Full sun is OK and desirable. Yes it was way too much water. It has been my experience that goji berries will not set fruit if they are not kept a bit on the dry side. They need very good drainage and hate wet feet. You might want to pop it out of the pot to see if the roots are healthy or are rotting which is what I suspect. Let it dry out so the roots can quit rotting and water sparingly. If it has yellow leaves it's too much water. If you can put it under a clear umbrella or a green house type structure where you can better limit the water it receives and give it adequate sun the plant will do much better.

Also consider putting your goji in the ground. They tend to grow exponentially once in the ground, but you will need to select a location where it will receive adequate drainage, so no low spots where water will collect. Gojis will grow a deep tap root so are actually fairly drought tolerant. The rain from the hurricane was just too much.

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Cool thanks for the reply. The guy I got it from said just put it in the ground,either way he said it will bounce back. But we are moving in Feburary and have a million plants as it is with some already in pots ready to go and others still needing dug up. So will just keep it out of the rain :)

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Depending on location, I'd be careful where I put Goji in the ground. Now in Tempe AZ the local environment will keep this plant under control. However in moderate climates with frequent rain this plant can be very invasive -- both by seedlings and especially by underground runners. This plant can out-compete burmuda grass. :(

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Ears perk up! Will it invade here? If so, I want one.

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Kat2, if you feel like giving it a go at growing, stop by by a local Asian/oriental grocery and buy a package of dried berries labeled "FRUCTUS LYCII", they are dried goji berries. Soak some of the dried fruits in warm water and once they soften, slice them open and remove the seeds (you could probably just plant the softened fruit and get it to sprout) and plant them. If I remember each fruit has about a dozen seeds. A 6 oz package of dried berries will give you more seeds than you will need for dollar or 2. I've had good success with getting the seeds to sprout, not so much with keeping the plants alive for more than a year (but I wasn't trying real hard to either).

DM

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Fructus lycii

Re: Goji berry bush help!
 

Thanks for the spell check.
Fixed my post.
DM