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    Size of Kiwi fruit vine- warning!!

    Before you choose your spot to plant your new Kiwi fruit, here are some photos of mine - be warned!!
    Its a Jenny, so self fertile, and is about 15 years old. It fruits every year but the fruit are smaller than shop bought ones. They are ripe about November after a frost.
    It was planted to grow over a small arch that is attached to the house, with a grape vine and honeysuckle. It was a bad decision!! Every year it has to be cut back, at least twice, some years it has been severely chopped back, but it still bounces back for more.
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    Must like your soil / location as my Jenny is FAR smaller than that

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    • #3
      Its South East facing, up against a concrete patio and has never been fed with anything. I treat things rough here!! I took the photos today because its about to be hacked. I can't walk under it and I'm only little!!

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      • #4
        Everytime mine grows a leaf something eats it ........don't think it'll ever get as big as yours .....
        S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
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        • #5
          At the moment, I'd happily swap you Bins!!

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          • #6
            what for a stick with no leaves .........nutter
            S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
            a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

            You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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            • #7

              Your stick wouldn't stop me leaving the house, as this one does when its raining. I've just put a chair outside to show you how low it comes!
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              • #8
                Maybe its vigour is because of how or when you prune it (it probably also likes your soil and climate).

                Did you let it get out of control before beginning pruning? If so, it will have allowed it to build a strong root system, and every time you hack off the top growth, the roots have enough power to regrow it all very quickly.

                Have you considered hard pruning in July-Augst, bark-ringing or root pruning?

                If it was mine and out of control, I'd probably prune it very hard in August and also root-prune at the same time. This should prevent much regrowth due to it having lost both light-gathering ability and nutrient/water-gathering ability. I would be amazed if that didn't bring it back under control.
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                • #9
                  In other words: change from "treat it rough" to "outright brutality" bordering on grievous bodily harm or even attempted murder.
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                  • #10
                    One more thing, though....

                    I may be wrong but I thought that quite a few kiwi's are double-grafted, so be careful that hard pruning doesn't remove one of the two (male and female) varieties grafted together otherwise the plant may stop fruiting.
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                    • #11
                      Thanks FB. Yes, I did let it get out of control as I had no idea how rampant it would become. I think it was quite slow to start and it was a few years before it fruited, so I left it to get on with it.
                      It seems to have 3 "trunks". Could I cut out one or two of them completely? Is a Jenny Kiwi a grafted male/female? If so, is there any way of making sure I remove the extra female?

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                      • #12
                        'Attempted murder' will take more than brutal pruning. Actinidia is a really vigorous vine, a single plant typically gets 6 - 12 m space in a commercial orchard

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                        • #13
                          We cross posted there FB.
                          The year before last, I cut most of it back to hard wood, I was so fed up with it! A bit of me hoped I would kill it!! There was no fruit that year but the next year it was back, as big as ever. It really is a thug!

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                          • #14
                            I've just googled this info: "This vigorous hardy Kiwi is self fertile, making it perfect for the smaller garden where there is only room for one plant. A spectacular climber in its own right with red tipped, heart shaped foliage and the clusters of small white flowers in summer. The sweet egg shaped fruit can be harvested in August and September for a delicious freshly picked dessert. Height: 6m (20') Spread: 4m (13'). Pot grown plant supplied." Perfect for the small garden?
                            A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows

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                            • #15
                              I will TRY during the week to locate the pictures I took at the Zespri kiwi vineyard a few years back VC,the framework they climb over is quite huge.
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