About the only thing that will kill this shrub is wet feet...so make sure you plant it in well draining soil. Goumi’s are reportedly ni...Read Moretrogen fixers, so are great planted amongst your fruit trees. (Just watch out for the occasional spine.) Until dead ripe, the small cherry like fruits can be a bit astringent, but after about 5 berries most people are no longer to able to detect this. Seeds are edible, but have an unpleasant texture. Adding a bit of almond extract to processed or deseeded pulp leaves you with an amazing cherry flavor for desserts and preserves.
i have 3 Elaeagnus but, not sure if they are Goumi, Autumn olive or other ?
I have not seen them fruit or flower yet, but they are...Read More still fairly young.
I am wondering what the best species is to grow in the Gulf South ?
(New Orleans area zone 9a / 9b)
i really want one because i am growing a food-forest, and am limited by my zone, which isnt really tropical, nor is it temperate.
and this supposedly produces a lot of tasty fruit.
If anyone know which one will fruit here i would appreciate it.
source to buy a plant would be nice as well.
A large shrub (not a tree) flowering in early June. Flowers are not especially conspicuous but are sweetly fragrant and perfume the air. ...Read More
The red fruits are sweet-and-tart---I find them tasty, and they remind me of sour cherries (P. cerasus) or cornelian cherries (Cornus mas). If you're thinking of harvesting fruit, there are cultivars selected for improved fruit quality and productivity. Goumi are self-fertile.
The leaves are green above and silver on the underside.
This is a tough easy shrub that's very adaptable about soil as long as it's well drained. It fixes atmospheric nitrogen and improves the soil.
According to BONAP, this species has rarely naturalized in N. America and unlike some of its relations it is not invasive.
I planted a Goumi that I bought from Burnt Ridge Nursery a year ago last spring. It's an attractive bush with foliage that's olive green ...Read Moreon top and silver on the bottom. The twigs are reddish brown. It's been a moderate grower and bore a couple handfuls of berries this year in late June. The taste of the fruit is a balance of sweet and sour with a bit of astringency - not really comparable to any common fruits. It provides a pleasant nibble in the garden but would probably be more generally popular if prepared in jams, sauces, or juices. The seed is fairly large compared to the fruit, easy to spit out if eating fresh and, though I haven't tried it, probably easy to separate in a food mill if processing.
I bought this plant (I believe this plant) back in 2006 from Jung Seed under what they called Goumi Sweet Scarlet. I have seen Red Gem of...Read Morefered from One Green World, but my plant seems to bear enough berries on it's own without needing cross-pollination. I have read stories of people buying this and receiving an Autumn Olive. I can only assume what I have is what I agreed to buy.
I love this plant. It is on the far edge of my property so has grown up neglected by me. I watered it twice it's first year. It is robust and has withstood bitter cold winters without die back. It keeps it's leaves during droughts. The deer even leave it alone. It is my second favorite plant, just under my golden raspberries. It has fruited for me in late July. The berries just drop. I've read your suppose to put a sheet under it and shake the branches to drop the fruit and they will drop when ripe. I don't care for the fruit because it tastes like a sweet wax. The texture isn't pleasing to me. It doesn't have a flavor I can place. I've spotted flowers the first week of June. I don't notice any scent and they are tiny ivory blooms lasting a few weeks. I love the leaves of this plant, how they sparkle in the light on a windy day. That's why it's one of my favorite plants. I have never been able to take a picture that does this plant justice with how pretty it is in the sun light. The fruit even sparkles from the silver flakes in the flesh. It was about 4 feet tall last year and I believe it fruited the 3rd year.
I purchased this plant last year. It is about 3 ft high and very healthy, but I expected it to bloom and bear fruit, and it hasn't yet. ...Read More If anyone has any experience with it, and how long it takes to produce, also if it needs a polinator, please let me know.
About the only thing that will kill this shrub is wet feet...so make sure you plant it in well draining soil. Goumi’s are reportedly ni...Read More
i have 3 Elaeagnus but, not sure if they are Goumi, Autumn olive or other ?
I have not seen them fruit or flower yet, but they are...Read More
A large shrub (not a tree) flowering in early June. Flowers are not especially conspicuous but are sweetly fragrant and perfume the air. ...Read More
I planted a Goumi that I bought from Burnt Ridge Nursery a year ago last spring. It's an attractive bush with foliage that's olive green ...Read More
I bought this plant (I believe this plant) back in 2006 from Jung Seed under what they called Goumi Sweet Scarlet. I have seen Red Gem of...Read More
I purchased this plant last year. It is about 3 ft high and very healthy, but I expected it to bloom and bear fruit, and it hasn't yet. ...Read More