Goji Experiment

[GrimLore]

The Goji...it's not back budding back further on the branches as I had hoped. Just where the prune cut was placed. Learning this Maybe slow going building ramification. But hoping to expose a bit more exposed roots during repot come spring. A love/hate relationship to say the least.

I took receipt of a small Goji earilier this year. Not Bonsai but potted.

It threw so much new foliage I had to stake it and hedge it back a lot. None of the growth was back buds on old wood...

I waited a few weeks and it continued the same whippy growth pattern so I hedged it again a couple of days ago. I took a few branches and tossed them in the cutting pot where I noticed they had small berries. I went back to the ragged looking thing and cut off any remaining berries. Why? As long as it is growing I am hoping to get actual back budding on the older branches... Now the wait...

Cuttings with berries -



Funky Goji experiment after berry and brank removal -



I figure if it works(redirecting auxins) and produces back buds I will have learned and be able to share. This one is yet another test plant anyways...

Grimmy

 

[Nybonsai12]

Cool stuff Grim. If you let the berries mature you can eat them and should be able to germinate the seeds as well if you choose. I want to get one of these to bonsai. Goji berries are a super fruit!

 

[GrimLore]

Cool stuff Grim. If you let the berries mature you can eat them and should be able to germinate the seeds as well if you choose. I want to get one of these to bonsai. Goji berries are a super fruit!

Yes indeed - we had some at the old place which inspired the purchase and between 3 bushes there were plenty for us and the birds. Here I have been slowly adding different plants types to replace all lost and this little one just happened to be available.
Seeing this one is doing OK I figured a back bud attempt or ten won't hurt
An inexpensive source to experiment with is Home Depot online in quart or one gallon sizes -
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Proven-W...d-Red-Fruit-4-5-in-Qt-LYMPRC1017800/205301811

Grimmy

 

[Josh86]

I had a plant last year and the berries tasted like a cross between a tomatoes and grass.

 

[GGB]

I had a gnarly twin trunk goji berry in my old garden, I had no clue at the time that people had such a love for them or I would've sent it to a member of bonsainut for free. I grew it from seed but it never fruited so I didn't bring it with me when I moved. Had decent-ish nebari but a great trunk, had half a mind to do something with it but I stick with trees usually. I used to hedge it 2 or 3 times a season. It would grow, what seemed like, 2 feet a month and then tip over. I remember taking cuttings from it a couple times, roughly a 50% success rate just shoving them in the dirt next to the mother plant and watering well.