How do you plant goji berry seeds to grow them into a potted plant?

Goji berry is a nourishing food ingredient, often used in soups or soaked in water, so how do you plant goji berry seeds in a pot?

1. Growing habits of goji berry

Goji berry is a plant of the Solanaceae family, Lycium genus, with the largest cultivated area in China, mainly distributed in the northwest region of China.

Goji berry is also called gouqizi, goji red fruit, beet seed, western goji, dog milk seed, red green pepper, goutizi, goji fruit, etc. It prefers a cool climate and has very strong cold resistance. When the temperature steadily passes around 7°C, the seeds can germinate, and the seedlings can withstand a low temperature of -3°C. When the spring temperature is above 6°C, the spring buds begin to sprout. Goji berry overwinters at -25°C without frost damage.

Goji berry mostly grows in alkaline soil and sandy loam, and is best cultivated in deep, fertile loam.

2. How do you plant goji berry seeds in a pot?

Put dried goji berries into a water-filled container and soak them for 1-2 hours, then crush the soaked goji berries, take out the small seeds inside, sow the goji berry seeds in a flower pot, water them thoroughly, cover with plastic film, and remove the plastic film after the goji berry seeds sprout.

Goji berry generally uses seedling transplanting and sowing propagation, among which:

The seedling transplanting propagation method fruits relatively early, but it is only suitable for old production areas; new propagation areas do not have this condition;

Sowing propagation is generally done around summer and autumn. When planting, first plow the ground and make beds, and apply enough base fertilizer, so that the soil is fine and moist, then mix the seeds with fine soil and evenly scatter them on the bed, with a seed spacing of about 7 cm, then cover with about 1 cm of soil.

Generally, seedlings emerge in about 10 days.