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Re: [SG] kiwi

At 07:58 AM 7/12/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Bobbi,
>How interesting that you experimented with the tropical kiwi.  Mine is the
one
>with the tiny fruit and it hasn't fruited yet.  I first saw it at the
>Hammonds' garden and liked the vine.  Mary Jo was upset that her vines had
>never fruited and they were quite old.  She did have male and female vines
and
>so do I.  There was an article about kiwi in our paper and it said that the
>vines have to be single stem, trained like grapes to get any fruit.  The
>thought of trying to "train" anything that is as rampant as that vine sounds
>frustrating, so I haven't tried it yet.
>
>What did you end up doing with your tropical kiwi?
>
>Kay Dye, Edelstein, IL Zone 5, always pushing 6
>
I doubt that kiwis have to be single stem to get fruit.  Problem is, frost.
 I know the vines are hardy, but they blossom early.  In Southwest Idaho,
where I live, we have such late frosts we only get apricots about once
every ten years.  Kiwis, I think, bloom even earlier, and their blossoms
are not frost resistant.  Once I got that through my head, I quit carrying
winter water to my vines.  Besides, it takes up to seven years to even
begin to flower.  Then zap!  Raise begonias, not kiwi.  Margaret
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