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Posted by winsorw 8 (My Page) on
Wed, Aug 6, 14 at 23:41

Hello,
This is my first year growing this particular goji berry, and I got a few from different sources. The berries are not sweet and have a bitter taste. Anybody has this problem? I also have a crimson star, its fruits were not sweet the first year but no bitter taste and now they are ver delicious.
Thanks for any suggestion.

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  • Posted by fruitnut z7b-8a,4500ft SW TX (My Page) on
    Wed, Aug 6, 14 at 23:56

I was given a plant, no name. It was sweet in early summer but with little flavor. Now like yours it's just awful. Bitter astringent I don't know maybe both, yuck.

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Perhaps you were tricked, like "red delicious" and "hope and change"

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I have three goji berry plants. The first berries to come out were sweet with little or no flavor. As the summer has progressed and larger and more numerous berries were produced, the results were much different.
You have to gather about 20 or 30 to get an amount to taste.
The taste was at best horrible and will be left for the birds.
I will be digging them up and placing them in the compost pile
after the berries stop producing for the birds.

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Greendumb, sorry to hear that your goji tastes horrible. Do you know what your variety is? The ones I planted a few years back was 'crimson star' and now they produce quite delicious berries. I gave a handful to a few people and they were amazed how good it tasted. But not for 'sweet lifeberry' that I just planted.

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I just ate my first 'Sweet Lifeberry" today. It was ok, kind of a cross between a very mild hot pepper and a tomato. No bitterness though.

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I purchased my Goji plants from Michigan Bulb Co.
and no variety name was given.

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Thanks jjd_z7a_nj, you are lucky, maybe there is a hope for me, perhaps it will be better next year.
greendumb, yours look like crimson star.

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  • Posted by danzeb 7a long island (My Page) on
    Sun, Aug 10, 14 at 11:34

I haven't gotten any berries in 3 years from my Gogi's since the pine mice are eating their roots and slowing growth. I have eaten dried goji berries and they were tasty but I don't know the variety.

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  • Posted by danzeb 7a long island (My Page) on
    Wed, Aug 27, 14 at 9:33

Got rid of the pine mice (for now) that were eating the roots of my Gogi plants. I have now gotten a few berries. They are sweet with a very slight bitter after taste. I don't know if they were fully ripe but I did like the taste and my wife liked them also. The variety is Crimson Star.

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