Growing Goji Berry Plants

The berries used for the seedlings in this photo were the dehydrated ones that we sell at Raw Pleasure. I soaked the berries overnight and then removed the tiny seeds and soaked them for a few more days, until they started to sprout tails in the bowl of water that I had them in. I then took them out and planted them. A week later, this is what they looked like! As you can see, sprouting them in water got the process of germination happening really fast.

These are the seedlings that were grown by just planting the berries straight into the pots after soaking them overnight. As you can see, these were not quite as successful initially. Despite being planted before the other ones in the photo above, they have been overtaken and some did not grow at all. There were some ants in these pots the next day after the berries were planted, so that may have had something to do with their lack of success.

At the very start of Spring in the first few days of September I planted Goji Berries again. This time, I did not soak the berries, sprout the seeds or even remove the seeds from the dried berry. I just planted the dried Goji Berried directly into pots and watered them, hoping for the best. This method took a lot longer to get going initially, but I have some hardy little seedlings now which I will now separate into their own pots.

I planted 5 of the berries evenly spaced around the rim of this pot. As you can see, some of the berries did not sprout anything, but some of those that did have sprouted a number of seedlings due of he berries having numerous seeds in them. These are much bigger than my seedlings got to the last time that I tried. This photo was taken two months on in mid November.

At the same time as I planted the berries in the pot above, I planted just one berry in each of these smaller pots and placed them in a shadier part of the house to see what would happen with both of the methods. As you can see, these ones have had little success with only a few of them sprouting at all and they are much smaller than the others. I will now move these around to the same part of the house that the other pot is in and see what happens.