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  • Male kiwi leaves going yellow and dying

    I have a male kiwi, shown in the photo below, but it has hardly grown in several years and this year, just as it is producing a few flowers, the leaves are going yellow and the top ones have shrivelled and died.

    It is planted in a sort of 'pot' area created from concrete blocks (50 cm long, in a square) filled with reasonably good compost and able to root down into the soil below, which is quite humid, so it should not be short of water. I have topped the compost with gravel as you can see.

    Nearby, is a female kiwi which has been planted for nine years or so, straight into stony, poor clay soil. This has finally grown away into a massive plant and gave us around 30 kiwis last year, due to pollinating by hand with three or four male flowers from this dying (tho' I hope not) specimen. It is currently covered with flower buds so we were anticipating another good crop but now I wonder if we will have any male flowers to pollinate with.

    Any ideas about the cause, or what I can do now to buck it up and bring it back from the brink. I wondered about digging it up and replanting it, but that would probably finish it off, or should I do this in the autumn if it is still alive?

    Our soil here is heavy clay which is quite alkaline, but the compost I put in the pot area was a peat based and sand mixture.
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