I've been picking up some good tips in rec.gardens.edible on growing kiwis,
but would welcome the UK point of view.

I'm just about to move one male plant and two female plants to a
south-facing wall in Cambs and any advice from a kiwi owner gardening in an
English climate would be appreciated.
--
Brian
"Stuck down a hole, in the fog, in the middle of the night, with an owl."

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Brian Watson wrote:
I've been picking up some good tips in rec.gardens.edible on growing kiwis,
but would welcome the UK point of view.

I'm just about to move one male plant and two female plants to a
south-facing wall in Cambs and any advice from a kiwi owner gardening in an
English climate would be appreciated.

Don't prune them in spring - they bleed like the devil. They also
grow like the devil, which tempts you to cut them back whenever you
are about to be strangled.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
Email:
Tel.: +44 1223 334761 Fax: +44 1223 334679

"Brian Watson" wrote in message
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I've been picking up some good tips in rec.gardens.edible on growing
kiwis,
but would welcome the UK point of view.

I'm just about to move one male plant and two female plants to a
south-facing wall in Cambs and any advice from a kiwi owner gardening in
an
English climate would be appreciated.
--
Brian
"Stuck down a

I had one of those supposingly self-fertile ones. Grew like a triffid but
never flowered/fruited :-( The leaves are very beautiful but I finally got
rid of mine because of the amount of space it took up.

Natalie

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Brian Watson wrote:
I've been picking up some good tips in rec.gardens.edible on growing
kiwis,
but would welcome the UK point of view.

I'm just about to move one male plant and two female plants to a
south-facing wall in Cambs and any advice from a kiwi owner gardening in
an
English climate would be appreciated.

Don't prune them in spring - they bleed like the devil.

Ah, thanks for that.

They also
grow like the devil, which tempts you to cut them back whenever you
are about to be strangled.

Yes, they "got away a bit" last year, which is one of the reasons I'm moving
them to a location where I can hack at them from my bedroom window.

:-)

--
Brian
"posting from Sutton, Winner of the English and Welsh Village of the Year
award"

"Natalie" wrote in message
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"Brian Watson" wrote in message
...
I've been picking up some good tips in rec.gardens.edible on growing
kiwis,
but would welcome the UK point of view.

I'm just about to move one male plant and two female plants to a
south-facing wall in Cambs and any advice from a kiwi owner gardening in
an
English climate would be appreciated.
--
Brian
"Stuck down a

I had one of those supposingly self-fertile ones. Grew like a triffid but
never flowered/fruited :-( The leaves are very beautiful but I finally
got
rid of mine because of the amount of space it took up.

Natalie

I also have a hermaphrodite plant. I had it for around 5 years before it
had any fruit. It flowered every year, but no fruit. The first year it
fruited, there were about 10 fruits on the whole plant. The following year,
it was a mass of fruit (delicious, too!). The year after, (last year), back
to no fruit again. I can only presume that weather conditions during
flowering have a great effect on the number of fruits which set. I wait
with interest to see if it will produce fruit this year.....
--
Chrissie
http://www.thegardener.btinternet.co.uk

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"Brian Watson" wrote in message
...
I've been picking up some good tips in rec.gardens.edible on growing
kiwis,
but would welcome the UK point of view.

I'm just about to move one male plant and two female plants to a
south-facing wall in Cambs and any advice from a kiwi owner gardening in
an
English climate would be appreciated.
--
Brian
"Stuck down a

I had one of those supposingly self-fertile ones. Grew like a triffid but
never flowered/fruited :-( The leaves are very beautiful but I finally
got
rid of mine because of the amount of space it took up.

Natalie

I also have a hermaphrodite plant. I had it for around 5 years before it
had any fruit. It flowered every year, but no fruit. The first year it
fruited, there were about 10 fruits on the whole plant. The following year,
it was a mass of fruit (delicious, too!). The year after, (last year), back
to no fruit again. I can only presume that weather conditions during
flowering have a great effect on the number of fruits which set. I wait
with interest to see if it will produce fruit this year.....

I suspect these "self fertiles" might be male and female plants
grafted onto a single stock, in which case fruiting could be adversely
affected by pruning out an errant branch bearing, say, male flowers.

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"TheGardener" wrote in message
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I also have a hermaphrodite plant. I had it for around 5 years before
it
had any fruit. It flowered every year, but no fruit. The first year it
fruited, there were about 10 fruits on the whole plant. The following
year,
it was a mass of fruit (delicious, too!). The year after, (last year),
back
to no fruit again. I can only presume that weather conditions during
flowering have a great effect on the number of fruits which set. I wait
with interest to see if it will produce fruit this year.....

I suspect these "self fertiles" might be male and female plants
grafted onto a single stock, in which case fruiting could be adversely
affected by pruning out an errant branch bearing, say, male flowers.

As I have never pruned my plant, I don't think that's the problem. Also, an
inspection of the flowers on my plant reveals both male and female parts,
hence hermaphrodite. I still think it's weather conditions prevailing at
the time of flowering.
--
Chrissie
http://www.thegardener.btinternet.co.uk