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Are these goji berries?

Baggies2Baggies2 Posts: 31
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What is this plant? I sowed Goji berries but I'm told these aren't Goji berries please help?

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    I get an error when I click on your photo so can't zoom in, but those look suspiciously like something in the Solanum (nightshade) family, possibly Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum.)  Definitely not goji.  Where did you buy the seeds from?
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    They look like black nightshade to me too, goji seedlings have long thin leaves slightly blueish on colour.
  • Baggies2Baggies2 Posts: 31
    Thanks for that.
    It was a packet of Suttons seeds.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Maybe the seeds were in the compost?  Either way, no harm in contacting Suttons with a photo.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Baggies2Baggies2 Posts: 31
    But would I have got all (10) looking the same and I used the same compost for other seeds which came up true to form?
  • SueG1SueG1 Posts: 41
    They don't look like Goji berries and you should be thankful for that, Goji Berries are incredibly invasive, you'll have a job getting rid of them if you plant them in the garden!
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I wouldn't call them invasive but they are extremely hard to get rid of and they don't produce fruit. Or not in my experience, anyway. I wouldn't bother with them. Get your money back and buy a chilean guava plant or some mara de bois strawberries instead
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Goji berries are in Solanaceae which is nightshade family, so not surprising the seedlings look similar.
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    edited May 2019
    fidgetbones said:
    Goji berries are in Solanaceae which is nightshade family, so not surprising the seedlings look similar.
    They don't look at all similar although they are related as you say
    is what a goji berry seedling of about the same size looks like, rather a nicer specimen than mine I have to say.
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