Potted goji berry trees, with red and green intermingling, can be eaten and enjoyed, and a single harvest fills a big bowl, enough to eat for 2 years

Many gardening enthusiasts report that flowers are pretty but hard to grow, either they don't bloom, or they attract pests and diseases! Maybe you just killed the aphids this week, and next week the red spider mites are back again. Since flowers and plants are so hard to grow, you might as well grow a goji berry tree, which you can eat and enjoy, with red and green intermingling, and a single harvest fills a big bowl, enough for the whole family to eat for 2 years!

To grow a goji berry tree, you can use the seed-sowing method or the cutting method. Here is how to do both!

Seed-sowing method

Take fully ripe goji berries, soak them in warm water for two hours, then rub them repeatedly to separate the seeds from the flesh, and leave them in a sunny spot at home to dry thoroughly.

Put the seeds into gauze, spray with water to keep them moist, and place them in a cool place to germinate. After about 3 to 4 days, they will sprout. Once sprouted, they can be planted in soil. To promote growth, you can cover with a layer of plastic film, which helps the seedlings emerge faster. When 3 to 5 leaves have grown, you can pot them up.

Cutting method

Take healthy branches one to two years old, cut them into sections about 20 cm long, keep a few leaves, cut the base at a slant, soak in rooting solution for ten minutes, then insert into sandy soil (using peat moss plus perlite). Under suitable temperatures, they will root in 20 to 30 days, and once small leaves gradually grow, you can move them to a pot!

Daily care

For the potting soil, you can use garden soil plus leaf mold with a small amount of organic base fertilizer. The base fertilizer can be bone meal, soybean cake fertilizer, rapeseed cake fertilizer, or decomposed chicken manure.

After repotting and once it has fully resumed growth, place it in a sunny and well-ventilated spot to speed up growth. In summer, water once every one to two days, and when the weather is hot, spray water on the leaves to prevent them from drooping and withering.

Do not fertilize in July and August. Its fruit-setting period is in October, so you can apply phosphorus and potassium fertilizer 2 to 3 times in September to promote flowering and fruit set and increase the number of fruits. Also, thin out flowers and buds in time. For densely growing flowers, prune them promptly, and for poorly growing fruits, pinch them off promptly. This way, the goji berries produced will be big, red, and plump.

A goji berry plant produces a very large amount of fruit at one time. Whenever the fruits ripen, bright red berries hang all over the branches, and at one harvest you can fill a whole big bowl, enough to eat for two years!

Goji berries are edible. They can be used in soups or steeped in water, and they have strong health benefits, but some people should not consume them, such as those who currently have a cold or diarrhea, and so on.

That's all for today's sharing!

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