- Only suitable plant material reliably bears flowers and fruits
- The duration of the juvenile phase depends on the type of reproduction
- Care and location-related reasons for the lack of flowering
With its long shoots and inconspicuous leaves, the goji berry is a rather inconspicuous shrub and is probably planted in most gardens with the aim of harvesting the bright orange-red berries. It is all the more annoying when the so-called wolfberry does not blossom and therefore does not produce any fruit.
If the goji berry does not bloom or hardly blooms, it does not bear any fruit
Only suitable plant material reliably bears flowers and fruits
The goji berry is a type of plant that has been selected and bred for yield in various Asian growing areas for centuries. However, hobby gardeners in Germany sometimes propagate offshoots of wild forms, which then produce few or no flowers. So you should make sure to plant a suitable cultivar if you want to harvest and process your own goji berries.
The duration of the juvenile phase depends on the type of reproduction
Like many other plant species, goji berries can also be propagated by sowing seeds or cuttings. It should be noted that seedlings usually have a longer juvenile phase than young plants from cuttings. Basically, you have to assume that young plants of the goji berry only develop flowers and fruits from about the third year. Potted specimens sometimes flower as early as their second year, as their size growth is somewhat limited by the shape of the culture and the plants start fruiting earlier.
Care and location-related reasons for the lack of flowering
It can also be due to one or more of the following factors if the so-called wolfberry bush does not want to bloom at all:
- unsuitable location: too little sun and warm
- waterlogging in the soil
- incorrectly performed pruning measures
Some varieties of wolfberry will stop flowering if cut back too much. However, high-yielding cultivars should be rather insensitive in this respect and react more positively to a training cut.
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Sometimes excessive or incorrect fertilization also contributes to the problem of non-blooming berry bushes. As soon as the soil at a location contains a lot of nitrogen due to appropriate measures, many shrubs tend to have very strong shoot and leaf growth. However, this happens at the expense of the blossom and fruit set.