I’ve heard it doesnt really hurt the bush to strip off all the berries straight off the vine...makes it easier to harvest but you get some leaves

Those bushes make a great hide out for the kids! And they have built in healthy snacks too 👍🏻

Love your work Curtis, been a fan for a couple years now. Keep up the hard work and inspiration!

Just got our first goji berry plants, can't wait to get my first harvest!

Curtis, you couldn't have chosen a better time to do this vlog. I was looking at a seed catalogue on line earlier today and I saw goji berries and thought I wonder how good they might be. After all I had never heard about them and after watching your vlogs goji's are on the buy list. Thank you very much.

Thank you for making this video! I have been on the search for goji berry plants since you mentioned them a while ago. My local nursery finally got some in...10 in a single flat. They were so tiny I was nervous they wouldn't make it....but I bought them all! Cant wait to see how they do. They have grown so much al ready.

How neat! I have only tasted them in the dehydrated form

Thank you so much for this video. I have them in my yard as well. My bush got so large I had to prune it back to pick the berries. I am trying to dehydrate them.

Nicely done. I appreciate your goji overview and imagery as I am considering gojis myself.

What awesome plants. goji are mildly sweet when dehydrated, no bitter

Mine are in big pots. I've been so busy I gave up trying to keep them trellised and now keep them as hanging plants, pruning them to size. Also I brought min in last winter to see what they would do and instead of going dormant they just kept reflowering and producing. It was amazing. I have a dwarf mulberry that's amazing and super easy to harvest. You just put a sheet under it and give it a light shake. The berries come off super easy when ripe, but not when unripe.

Awesome to come across this, actually just started some from seed about a week ago. Hoping to use them as a living fence around a patio.

@nonnie4059

Жыл бұрын

I grew some from seed also. And I didn't get anything from them for the first year plant. And i thought it died. So I threw it in the compost. Well, it's growing now and huge plant. So hopefully this is the year

Thank you for uploading, Friend!

OOOO, I planted some last fall. I sure hope next year I have some to pick. We got to taste some frozen ones at Coen Farm's tour and they were yummy, even after being frozen an entire year!

The new shoots are delicious!

Nice, they trellis them up high for production.

Haha I have purchased this shrub at a local supermarket, currently it's in a container. Funny, it seems to struggle but I moved it to shade and it's doing bit better....ideally I may plant it out and hope it grows bigger. Scruffy bush to be fair, but I assume grown for the fruit. Nice vid.

Wow that looks great. First time growing goji berries this year. My fruit no where large as yours . Great job 😀

@yvonneknight8746

4 жыл бұрын

I'm looking for goji cuttings

Hi, I am from Maine. We have wild blueberry's up here and they are also tiny. Workers use a hand held rake to harvest them. I wonder if this would work for you. Damaging the plant might not be an issue where it is so aggressive. Great vids by the way.

Awesome, we love our goji berry plant. Not the tastiest berry, but does well dried with raisins.

I planted gooseberries this year... so excited

@yvonneknight8746

4 жыл бұрын

I did too it's very small so I have to wait for it to get older

@outkast0424

4 жыл бұрын

@@yvonneknight8746 i was surprised at how early mine started producing fruit!!! It was loaded with flowers this year!

When I first saw the bush and you said that it was hard to control, my thought was some kind of large container, and also that it should be trellised.

I look forward to seeing if they spread in your garden area. I bought two this year and I am so worried about them spreading that I put them in a pot. So they spread like raspberries, sigh.

Awesome I have been thinking about trying them

Fantastic info for people. Goji in my opinion is a welcome Invasive Plant in my property.

Hey grow riverside shirt, still mad i missed that event 👋

New subscriber. I’ve watched about 10 of your videos so far. This is something I’d be interested in doing with our spare land, but the biggest question I have is how do you store your produce until you get them sold, and what’s the life expectancy of storing them?

I made a pvc pipe bridge that is 7 feet high. They grow up both sides then overlap in the middle and lean over the other side. That way its more organized. I can walk through the bridge where its all clear and just pick them. I turned 2 into 50 that are producing now and i have 50 more cuttings that i will plant next year.

It almost looks like you could use one of those little handheld blueberry harvesting things I dont know what they are called but they look like a slotted dust pan I think they are called berry picking rakes that would make your job alot easier

I have only had Goji berries once, and they were really good! Wahts your favorite berry?

Please do you have a book on some of your work ?

have you tried Purple goji berries? the purple makes them even more nutritious? I’m growing them from seed at the moment.

Great info, thank you!

Wow, Goji thats great.

Ok now i need some goji's. FYI along time ago, my Dad gave me 10 raspberry canes. We turned them in to a half acre upick. Could have expanded to many acres by now. Sorry to say, they will show up in your strawberry bed. They might even show up at your front door. Still worth it, tho.

If I'm going to put the growth from this year under wood chips will it allow me to develop a hedge around the garden over a few years?

Curious if this is in the Okanagan ( temperature wise ) ? Where did you get the plants ? We are in northern BC

Do they like to grow in neutral or acid soil and do they grow well in sandy soil or soil with added compost and loose draining?

@Urban Farmer Curtis Stone How did the trellis project go?

What is your favorite variety taste wise? Would you choose goji over goose ?

Cool. Who knew you could grow them in Canada?

Definitely acquired taste. We started growing Goji berries this year for the first time. Surprisingly they fruited. Also the first time I’ve ever tasted them. Definitely an acquired taste to me it’s kind of peppery.

Buy the dried goji berries at your food CO-OP and cut open to extract perfectly viable seeds. There are between 15 and 30 tiny seeds in each dried berry. In my experience, the germination rate has been 80% or more.

@jwills3242

5 жыл бұрын

Brian Richards I planted 5 seeds per cup to germinate and I got 7-9 per cup after about a month! Crazy

Where did you buy your original plants from?

Do you know what type of goji berries you are growing? I have 2 different plants and one has a good taste but the other has a metallic taste and is almost inedible.

Could you set them up like with a trellis

Those are really beautiful! Are they ever green?

@billastell3753

3 жыл бұрын

Not up north where we get lots of snow.

Seaberries are similarly hard to pick... plus thorns... but man, the Vitamin C they pack! (Plus they might be a nitrogen fixer.)

Great Video

Do your goji have thorns? I just picked up a variety from the store actually. And they have thorns I think

@caliberkolector1196

Жыл бұрын

My goji berries have vicious thorns, and they constantly remind you-lots of them, lol

Huh, didn't think goji berries grew in Canada. Nobody around here has them (I'm in Eastern Ontario). We do well with raspberries in our backyard, they are going crazy right now.

@pascalbaylon256

Жыл бұрын

I’m in Montreal Quebec and my goji berry plant survive the winter

hi after how many years thay start to give fruits thanks

What variety of goji do you have?

Do they need a lot of water like raspberries?

How many berries do you get from one plant?

Will excess water during rainy season damage the plant? Please reply

Hi 👋 Love the video 😅 Please how could you help me get the seeds. I'm in Accra.

Mine keep dying and coming back and I've just gotten them early in the year. Idk what is going on. So ha ha about easy to grow.

They look like red hots candies.

my goji berries don't grow to full size, any advice?

In Chinese food you put a few berries in a big pot of soup or maybe a berry or two in a pot of tea, I was warned only eat a few maybe possible to get nosebleeds

Do you need to protect the smaller plants during the winter?

@johncraftenworth7847

6 жыл бұрын

nah I see some different strains, I think the least cold tolerant ones are zone 4, that's like Minnesota! They have ones they advertise that are zone 3, even more cold tolerant! They are known as snow berries in the Himalayan mountains I believe.

Your plants look great! I have three plants (different varieties) and though they are growing vigorously, they are not flowering and not fruiting. I think my oldest plant is 5 years old. Any idea what the problem could be?

@ArtByEmilyHare

6 жыл бұрын

GrownToCook yeah I’d like to know too as I gave mine away as they weren’t fruiting

@michaelwould

6 жыл бұрын

You may have to manually pollinate them?

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Wood The problem is our plants donor even flower, so pollination is not the problem (yet)

@naturaljuicers3676

5 жыл бұрын

At 5 years old they need a ton of water. you can't over water them if you have them a land scape

@naturaljuicers3676

5 жыл бұрын

PS. I have 8 plants all at least 8-10 feet tall you will have to trelis them they like lots of sun at least 6 hrs.a day here in colorado [ Time to give them a hair cut ] then they will flower.

What do they taste like?

How long does it take Goji berries to fruit if started from seed?

Graft them, or maybe vine hangers?

Which type of GOJI are you growing. lysium chinense or lycium barbarism?

@offgridcurtisstone

3 жыл бұрын

No idea.

Do you have problems with birds eating them? We have a lot of birds here in Germany, I have to use nets over my berries.

Do you think they would grow in a pot? To try and contain them mostly.

@silverrose7554

3 жыл бұрын

They have very deep root system they might work if you water regularly . Experiment . They winter really well it’s Because for that deep roots, if you live in a milder climate I think it might make it in a pot . Good luck . 🍀. But if the bottom of pot is cut out ya it will contain it .

damn. I live in hawaii and I can't get these to grow yet. YET!

@marshwetland3808

6 жыл бұрын

If they grow well in Kelowna, I would imagine they wouldn't grow that well in Hawaii - kinda opposite. Hot and dry with cold winters versus tropical.

@whatthefunction9140

6 жыл бұрын

I know, right

Where did you purchase these? I have an acre in Ohio... A couple different varieties and the taste is very bitter. We are working with a horticulture instructor through Ohio State University who goes back and forth from China and is helping us. Can I purchase some cuttings from yours?

@johnsavchak8202

3 жыл бұрын

Dylan, I'm in Ohio as well...am thinking of getting some property and doing Goji. There's an agricultural extension down in Southern Ohio that I'd like to contact. One thing that pops up is a varietal named Lycium Turgidus. Supposed to be the GOAT of the Goji world...but I can't find any stateside... just England and Germany.

Can I grow goji berries in zone 5b? Montréal area.

@dustydeelitchfield

6 жыл бұрын

I grow them in Zone 4a.

I was thinking of growing so ordered dried goji berries to taste. It's OK, but not my favorite dried Berry. How different does the dried version taste than fresh? I only have so much space so must be picky when it comes to what I grow.

@englishhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Honestly fresh I think they're disgusting, liek super sour.

Don't leave me in suspense. So if goji is your second favorite, what's your first favorite??

@thewolfin

6 жыл бұрын

missed a great chance to link to the last video kzread.info/dash/bejne/fKRmycyRnLixntI.html

@benoitrobitaille5235

6 жыл бұрын

he said in an other video that it was raspberries if i recall correctly.

@glenjamindle

6 жыл бұрын

Oh no! I missed the video!

@MichaelWilliams-to3cj

6 жыл бұрын

I think its raspberry, he has a raspberry bush on his fence.

@123mcyang

4 жыл бұрын

What kind of fertilizer do you use? Thanks.

Mine aren't doing much. Several years old and not that big. Never flower or fruit. Can't figure it out.

@gobigrey9352

6 жыл бұрын

I'll have to do that. Thanks.

I've been trying to grow goji berries for years but they never fruit for me. They grow like monsters and get huge but not even a whiff of fruit on them! 😫

Can't harvest by shaking the branches over a big tarp?

Do the birds not like these berries?

I'm selling goji berry bushes for $12 only in Michigan as I'm not sure how to send a plant through the mail.

I've planted one in a pot. It flowers but the fruit drops off every time. What can I do about that?

@chriskeegan

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe a bigger pot if you think the pot you have is small.

@thewolfin

6 жыл бұрын

If it's rootbound (pull it out and check) maybe divide it and repot up a size. Otherwise just make sure you do some fertilizing when it starts flowering

@yclana1

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Keegan It's not rootbound as I've recently reported it. Thanks :)

@yclana1

6 жыл бұрын

Wolfin yes, I'll try applying fertilizer more frequently. Thanks :)

What do you think of the black ones, do you have those also? I have some seeds so I will be growing them, they are supposed to have a better flavor than the red ones, they are cold hardy down to -15F but they are supposed to be invasive which is probably the problem you are having with them. I wish the tropical fruit like mangos were that cold hgardy, that would be great, maybe I can put a request in to God and he will make such a thing for those of us that don't live in a tropical environment. Thanks

What's your favorite berries?

never heard of them....what do they taste like?

@jksatte

6 жыл бұрын

Taste not important, they are rich in polysacharides (spelling?). Also they are good dried. Ok, taste is important but most are good enough, you know. Janice

Can they grow in the tropics?

@offgridcurtisstone

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think so.

Seed to fruit duration

Trellis

my bush stopped producing fruit.

What's your favorite?!

@offgridcurtisstone

6 жыл бұрын

Raspberries.

I think you can dry them like a raisins

@ukaszbazejowski2675

6 жыл бұрын

yes, you are right and I think it is more convininet way than frozen fruits :)

#1 blackberry #2 blueberry #3 raspberry #4 honey berry #5 gooseberry #6 goji berry

I wish I knew what variety you have. I have Phoenix Tears and I enjoy the plant, but not the berries. I can make myself eat them, but they taste like a bad tomato to me. No sweetness at all.

down to -10 F, wouldn't last here, thanks though

@ahb226

6 жыл бұрын

I've been growing them for years in an area with lots of days below freezing. I think they can handle -10 F no problem. they are super hardy.

@thefaeryman

6 жыл бұрын

-typically goes to -20F for a few weeks, just can't wait, ha ha

@dustydeelitchfield

6 жыл бұрын

I'm in Zone 4a (-30F) and I grow Goji berries here. The bush doesn't get as large as Curtis', but it still does quite well!

I'd I give you my P. O BOX address will you send me some seeds please