How can I get my goji berry plants to set flower?

[AnitaRL]

I have two 80cm goji berry plants, which according to the seller are supposed to flower and produce fruit this year. But so far, it doesn't look like they have any intention of flowering....instead they seem determined to grow new shoot after new shoot....like a magic bean trying to reach to the sky. (p.s. they are on a west facing balcony, with both plenty of light and plenty of shade).

Is there anything I can do to convince them to produce flowers instead of growing more shoots???

[katholicos]

I would be interested in the answer to this also...a few months ago i purchased a small Goji berry, honey berry and blueberry bush form Suttons. The Blueberry has about 5 small flowers on it, but there are none on either the goji or honey berry bushes and the goji is getting quite large, with new shoots appearing almost daily! I'm not relaly expecting fruit this year bit would like to know whether it will flower.

[WrexTheDragon]

My Goji don't flower until July and fruit is ready in September/October.

[Madasafish]

Mine grown from seed is 3 years old and has not flowered - never, ever.

I have threatened it with weedkiller if it does not this year...

[chengjing]

they seem determined to grow new shoot after new shoot....like a magic bean trying to reach to the sky

Well, goji shoots are very tasty. That is why I grow goji. You can pick young shoots, stir fry with a bit of sugar and rice vinegar - delicious. If I want goji berries, i go to Chinese supermarket to get a packet of dry ones.

[gojiberry]

Mine hasn't flowered either. There was a thread on here a few weeks ago saying that there are two strains of goji berry and most of the ones sold in this country don't flower???
Will just have to wait and see. mine is into it's fourth year.

Ian

[goji_with_no_berries]

hey guys I would like to know ho to get goji flower too (in the uk)!

We (Chinese) eat/ use the whole plant so I got my Goji plant as vegetable from Chinese supermarket. I ate all the leaves and stuck the cane in the ground a few years back and since then it grew into a bush.

Last year one of the cane grew up to 6 feet high (before the powdery mildew struck) and all the leaves fell off but since then young shoots appeared and it got back to its previous glory but still no flower

Has anyone got flower from goji?

One thing from the Chinese website : they say there are two variety - one with longer "needle" like leaves which is more hardy but you cannot eat the leaves, the other with "oblong leaves" (the one I have) where you can eat the leaves, but less resistant to disease.

[purplekat]

I also have no flowers, my plants are about 6foot tall (3 years old I think) - grown from a seed from a dried goji berry - so hopefully that means they do flower, otherwise where would the fruit have come from!

[AngelaJG]

goji berry

I have 2 Goji berry bushes in large pots, I did have 3 but one died early this year for some reason, I bought them off the internet last year as small single twig plants and they went wild in a space of a few weeks, around july time last year, all 3 plants flowered, lovely little purple and white flowers but they all dropped off, I was really disappointed, however it was around december time when all the leaves had fallen , and there hiding on one of the branches was a single solitary juicy goji berry it was delicious!

[FB.]

A rather old topic.

Gojiberries are vigorous, straggly, thorny plants that prefer to grow and not fruit.
They rapidly grow a very strong root system and, once established, will tolerate almost anything that mother nature can throw at them.

They are at their best when grown in quite poor soil (not too much moisture and not too much fertility), although they need a bit of care to get them going before they can be left alone in such poor conditions.

If too vigorous, a hard prune of soft new growth in mid-late summer should bring their growth under control.

[tub]

i got my goji plants off inter net with no flowering for 3 years now. a few months ago i disided to try and take some cuttings, now all the cuttings have quiet a few flowers growing from them. the only difference is i have my cuttings in a poly tunnel. now just hoping some berries turn up. these are grown in the UK.

[aoife♥]

I have had a goji berry plant for a year now and like AnitaRL I have had the problem with all the sprouts and no flowers/berries. I had it in the ground for the year and today i changed it to a pot. Was that a good idea? Has anybody else tried it? i might have found a berry but i can't be sure because i don't remember any flowers.