Red Goji Berry (Lycium Barbarum) is also known as Chinese Wolfberry. This highly branched, deciduous shrub grows up to 3 meters tall and wide in its natural form. However, it can be restricted to 1 – 2 m tall, which makes it perfect hedging plant.
Red Goji Berry Culinary Uses
- The fruits appear as orange-red berries with a bright color in elongated shape, the size of 1-2 cm, with a slightly sour flavor.
- They can be eaten fresh, made into juice or wine and as a snack.
Red Goji Berry Medicinal Uses
- Bark of this plant can be used in teas and infusions.
- Used in traditional Chinese medicine, Goji Berry is very valuable and nutritious: contain carotenoids, beta carotene, vitamin C, B, E, as well as more than 30 trace elements, antioxidants and 19 amino acids.
- They are truly exceptional, improve the immune system and eyesight.
Growing Red Goji Berry
Indoor Sowing: Late Winter, Spring and Summer.
Direct Sowing: Spring and Summer.
- Soak the Goji Berry Seeds in warm water for 24 hours. This will increase their rate of germination.
- Sow the seeds in moist substrate and place the planted seeds in a warm place. The optimum germination temperature is around 20 C.
- Germination in about 14- 30 days.
- Transplant seedlings immediately after 2 weeks has passed, to avoid stressing the seedlings. Be careful not to damage the roots.
- Transplant into a pot or in the ground.
- Snip off the main stem just above third leaf when it appears. This will cause the plant to grow laterally as a bush rather than vertically as a tree. A bushy form will yield more berries than a taller plant.
- Growing goji berries in containers is possible. Use a pot that is large and deep enough to hold the plant.
- Plant it in a light potting mix.
- Repot it once in every 2-3 years or whenever you find it rootbound.
- Fertilize the plant with tomato feed twice in the month in the growing period.













