Goji berry, a deciduous shrub of Solanaceae, prefers the warm, humid, and sunny places for growing, with the characteristics of cold, drought, and barren tolerance. Potted plants are usually placed on the sunny outside, not have to be covered even in the summer. Goji berry needs dormancy not only in winter but also in hot summer, during the dormancy, we should control watering and stop fertilizing in the context of growth stagnation and leaf abscission. At the end of the dormancy, plants should be trimmed and reshaped by cutting off the branches that are dense, overlong, crossed, overlapped, and weak, and picked the old leaves, which can increase the inner ventilation and transparency, and urge the growth and make the branches and leaves luxuriant but well-spaced. After the new leaves grow, plants should be fed by the phosphorus and potassium based fertilizer every 7 to 10 days and watered thoroughly. To reduce the metabolic activity and prolong the fruit period, we should stop fertilizing and decrease watering after the fruit appears its color.
In a year, Goji berry can bloom and fruit in both summer and autumn, as a result of the fruits in May and June are sparse, small and lighted colored, we can remove the flower bud to collect nutrient to make more fruits in autumn. Because of the powerful germination, cutting, pinching and removing are necessary for us to control and shape the plants delicately. The plants will show us a bold and twist image after falling leaves and fruits which also can be enjoyed in winter, if we shape them before the winter. In winter, the plants like cold, we can put it outside facing the sun and without wind to spend the winter with a balanced soil consistence degree. Too high ambient temperature will make the plants sprout in advance, which is harmful for plants to grow in next year. We should keep the balance between soil and water or will cause the plants death. Spraying warm water to the fruits frequently can prevent withering and delay dropping availably. And we don’t have to prune it until sprouting in spring or may cause the branches returning. Every one or two year, we should change the old soil into richer and looser one and add some potassium phosphate fertilizer as basis. New plants can be managed in a normal way after conserved without direct sunshine for 15 days. Goji berry reproduce normally by sowing, cutting, layering and parting, in these ways, plants are easy to survive. Goji berry, a kind of deciduous or semi evergreen shrub with vines, can grow to dungarunga after Artificial cultivation. It has light green leaves in early spring and lavender flowers, its oblong fruits will be ripe in autumn, and look delightful on the brunches.
Goji berry, growing vigorously, prefers the sunny and cool environment for growing, with the characteristics of cold and drought tolerance and powerful ability of sprouting and germinating, but couldn’t be kept in heavy clay and low humidity areas. It can grow luxuriant in the places that are ventilated, warm and dry with sandy soil. Goji berry reproduce normally by cutting, and parting and it is easy to do so. Also it can reproduced by planting, new plants will grow ripe in 2 or 3 years. Cutting should be executed in spring or autumn, which requires us choose strong brunches and cut into 12-15 cm length, the top should be cut fitly and the basis should be cut into a shape like horse’s ear, by doing these, the survival rate can up to 80 or 90 percent. Parting means people should pick the bud and transplant it in early spring, watering with enough water, which will also cause a high survival rate. The management of Goji berry planting is easy, wolfberry is sensitive to the proportion of water and fertilizer, we should use some fertilizer matters in winter and some nitrogenous fertilizer in its vigorous period. When plant grow old, we should prune the branches in time or the plant will die. The old roots of Goji berry can be create into graceful potted landscape, especially when the fruits are ripe.Wolfberry is vulnerable to powdery mildew, we can solve the problem by spraying the solution mixed with 70 percent of thiophanate and its 1500 times of water. Also we can spray the 50 percent of sulphur powder in the early morning.
