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  • From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
  • To: <me@ricechex.net>, "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Goji Berry
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:36:59 -0600

From what I have read and what I have bought at the oriental grocery store,
there isn't much variation in lycium berries (wolfberry, chinese boxthorn, etc) and it would be silly to spend a lot of time or money looking for cultivars. The European version I makes somewhat smaller berries, otherwise they are considered very similar. I read an article on germanium that claimed that the herbal hall of fame mostly consisted of plants that concentrated germanium. If that's the case, the germanium is in the seeds and THAT means that you don't need to bother looking for varieties that make more pulp. The ordinary cheap dried ones from oriental groceries taste great the way they are, and the seeds sprout just fine. My problem is that I can't get them to GROW once they are up. They always die before they get an inch high. It frustrates me no end to read that they are naturalized in places in Virginia. I think they like sandy soil, but even in sand they die for me. What they don't seem to like, at least while small is excessive amounts of rain. They will do fine till we get into a wet spell, and then they die every time. Forest Farm out west sells the plants, and the one I got from them lived for 2 years, till I transplanted it out of the woods to some better soil, then it died. Donna




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