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Old 05-11-2013, 05:56 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Default Re: Elaeagnus Multiflora (Goumi, Gumi)

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Originally Posted by Worm_Farmer View Post
I have been growing it for about 3 years now. Never got one single fruit from it. I do get lots of flowers, they are white and smell sweet. I just do not know why I have not been getting any fruit.
I am in 8b and we do get some colder weather than you do. I planted it with some potting soil into a thin sandy clay soil that once had a pile of uprooted pine trees push over on to it. I gave it some inorganic phosphate, nitrate, and potassium containing inorganic fertilizer this year. The blue berries next to it are happy as are some black berry bushes. The bush's tallest two branches are 7 ft plus high now.
The only thing I can think of is to check and see if your zone is good for it. I purchased my bush from just fruits and exotics about 2.5 years ago.

I think I will try and start some more of these bushes. I just went out and picked a few more ripe ones and consumed them.

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