Hey @nateonsteemit I found your contest on the GHSC discord. I bought some goji berries from these guys in the spring. http://rootofdavidnursery.com/index.html. Disclaimer, give the goji berries something to climb on and you have to do something to protect them from insects. I got 2 of them and the bugs have been destroying them. I've been using some diatomaceous earth but haven't kept it up well and the insects kinda devastated them.
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Oh no! What kinds of bugs? Feasible to plant them near a chicken run to help control insects?
I'm not sure what got after them but they ate all the leaves off the two of them I got. I think they may come back, but I'm not sure.
Yeesh! That's no fun at all!
Says they're insect resistant, but I guess that's only some insects. That sucks!
Did they fruit the first year?
No they have not fruited, I'm putting more diatomaceous earth around them for pest control and planning to feed the roots with some of the solid fish waste that comes off the aquaponics system. Hopefully that will start to turn them around.
kk, sorry nate, I have to redact my last statement. One of the gojiberry plants has some tiny fruits growing from what I saw the other day. I'll send you a pic tomorrow. The other one is still struggling. Now that my Aquaponics system is running though I can feed the plants some of the fish waste which is an incredible fertilizer.
Is it feasible to grow the gojis in the aquaponics system?
It may be feasible in a wicking bed. I would believe would work well for sure. Not sure it would work well in a pebble media bed or deep water culture type system. If I could get some to propagate from cuttings I will definitely try though.
I owed you a photo of the one goji berry I bought from my source. Here is the current status of one of them I planted next to a thornless blackberry I also bought from the same folks.
Little one! I hear they get 7 feet high and almost that big around.
I'm contemplating getting a lot. Found a guy that propogates them and sells them in packs of 30. I need 30 goji berry plants, right? Right? 🤔