Red Goji Berry - 10 Seeds

Red Goji Berry (Lycium Barbarum) is also known as Chinese Wolfberry. This highly branched, deciduous shrub grows up to 3 meters tall and wide in its natural form. However, it can be restricted to 1 — 2 m tall, which makes it perfect hedging plant.

Red Goji Berry Culinary Uses

• The fruits appear as orange-red berries with a bright color in elongated shape, the size of 1-2 cm, with a slightly sour flavor.
• They can be eaten fresh, made into juice or wine and as a snack.

Red Goji Berry Medicinal Uses

• Bark of this plant can be used in teas and infusions.
• Used in traditional Chinese medicine, Goji Berry is very valuable and nutritious: contain carotenoids, beta carotene, vitamin C, B, E, as well as more than 30 trace elements, antioxidants and 19 amino acids.
• They are truly exceptional, improve the immune system and eyesight.

Growing Red Goji Berry

• Soak the Goji Berry Seeds in warm water for one to two days. This will increase their rate of germination.
• Sow Goji Berry seeds in moist substrate and keep them at a warm place, optimum germination temperature is around 20 C.
• The germination takes place between 3 to 15 days.
• Transplant seedlings immediately, after 2 weeks to avoid stress in a pot or on the the ground while handing the roots gently.
• Snip off the main stem just above third leaf when it appears. This will cause the plant to grow laterally as a bush rather than vertically as a tree. A bushy form will yield more berries than a taller plant.
• Growing goji berries in containers is possible. Use a pot that is large and deep enough to hold the plant.
• Plant it in a light potting mix.
• Repot it once in every 2-3 years or whenever you find it rootbound.
• Fertilize the plant with tomato feed twice in the month in the growing period.