goji berry transplants wilting

I have sown some goji berries from berries and this is really dead easy. BUT after transplanting them into individual pots they wilted.
I chose an overcast day to do so and the next day was sort of overcast too, then it got hot, but then it got hot, but they wilted on the first day anyway.
They are still alivive.
What was it? Don't take goji berries to be transplanted or did I do this on the wrong moon phase (6th of feb)?

Transplanting can always be a shock to the plant, and I'm not surprised in the least. What you can do is place some kind of shade on the sunny side of the plant, so noon-time sun is not beating down on it. Keep it shaded and cool for the first week or two. If the plants are really wilted, you might try covering the plantlets with plastic bags, but you must be certain they get almost no direct sun. Any plant wrapped in plastic and in the sun is sure to be cooked!

I covered them with cardboard during the day.

Angelika, I wondered how your goji plants are doing...did they come out of their wilt? I have a flat of seedlings that I started in doors a few weeks ago and am ready to transplant...good germination but between what you said and then something i read that said they don't transplant well because there isn't much root when they are young...now I am afraid to pot them up until I find out more. mine are indoors because it is still really cold here..I won't be putting any out until April.

I potted a few from an earlier flat and they look good but they were not as close together as the ones in this flat.

Angelika Maier wrote:I covered them with cardboard during the day.

When you say "covered", do you mean an inverted cardboard box that covers the plants down to the ground? If so, I think that's why they are wilting. The cardboard is acting like an oven and cooking them. I would cut the box in half, length-wise, and position it such that the box shades the plants from the noon sun, but the north side is still open to the wind. That way heat will not build up inside the box.

I have about twenty four first year goji plants in pots...started from seed over the winter, that I can't seem to get used to the sun. they have been in a window and then on the porch with morning sun but much past that causes them to wilt badly and turn pale even done gradually as I do all of my starts. So far they recover by the next morning. I planted a few out today and made covers to shade them out of some loose hay and they still look wilted but not so pale. Reading more on line I guess this seems to be common...so I am wondering if anybody has gotten past the wiltly part and on to established plants.
Angelika, did yours recover? when I do a search on line this thread comes up early in the list The seed germinated so well, I would hate to lose them now.

I have some that slugs go crazy for. I have to watch them. You can put nylons around the base of plants that slugs want to crawl up. They hate crawling up nylon/burlap material. It wipes off their slime. I have saved many plants that way.
John S
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John Suavecito wrote:I have some that slugs go crazy for.  I have to watch them.  You can put nylons around the base of plants that slugs want to crawl up. They hate crawling up nylon/burlap material. It wipes off their slime.  I have saved many plants that way.
John S
PDX OR

A good way to control slugs is a beer trap.  Take a half-pint jar and bury it in the ground up to the neck of the jar.  Fill the jar half-full with beer.  You can then drink the other half.  Slugs are attracted to the beer, fall in, and drown.

For additional protection, use multiple jars scattered around the garden area.  Repeat as above.  For each jar, pour in half the beer, then drink the second half.  Repeat with each additional jar.

BTW, do NOT drink any of the beer with slugs in it!