[Piccolo]

I don't know if anybody else has tried it but .... my young goji berry plant was getting gangly so I nipped it back to what I felt was a better length - I put the extra pieces in water for curiousity's sake and 3 of them have rooted!  

[GrannieAnnie]

Lucky you!  I couldn't even get my seeds to germinate! 

[chrissie B]

hubby got me some seeds from julian graves shop and i must say they are very hardy , mine are a bit gangly and the pack says they can grow to 11 foot it also says all sorts of things you must do but in the end just stuck em inin a pot of soil and away they went .
chrissie b

[8doubles]

I`ve got one plant left from about a dozen planted last year. Germination was ok using Holland & Barret Goji berries as seed but the surviving plant is still very spindly at 3ft high. The rest i left out of the g/house last winter and they got too wet, growing instruction said they need good drainage so it`s my own fault they rotted.
It looks like being a while till goji berries are on the menu.

[savbo]

they grow wild on Hilbre Island in the Dee Estuary - but we knew them as Duke of Argyll's Tea Tree..



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[GrannieAnnie]

I got my seeds from Julian Graves too, but perhaps I did wrong by following the instructions.  I mixed the cheshunt compound with water, added the gel stuff and everything!  Not one germination!   

[8doubles]

I pricked out the tiny seeds into an inch of sieved compost in an old plastic food tray with lid. I think it was march/ april time put them in a cold g/house and let them get on with it. Germination must have been 50% ish .

It will be interesting to hear if Piccolo`s bush fills out after pollarding, i may need to do the same. 

[SpudtheBinx]

I just bought 50 pence worth of berries from our local market and I got thousands of seeds out of it. I sowed a few and gave a load away. I had probably one hundred or so germinate but lost some to damping off ( I sowed them in january, probably way too early). Pricked out 10 which all survived so put 7 up on freecycle and the three I have left are very healthy now.

[beanqueen]

Got half a dozen healthy plants coming along nicely from seeds bought last year frm ebay. Tried to grow them last year but left it a bit late I think and they didnt survive the winter ( in the  unheated conservatory)

I've read if you can keep them indoors and thriving for a year then plant them out in the spring they stand a better chance of surviving. WOuld happily pass on a couple in the spring to anyone in the area

[8doubles]

From what i have read lack of heating should not be a problem as they are arid-mountain plants used to the cold but need very good drainage. They certainly don`t like a wet English winter.