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My kiwi won't fruit, do I need to prune ?
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smokymist 7 East TN (
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Sat, Nov 23, 13 at 2:46
| I have 6 decent sized hardy kiwi, three different varieties, both male and female, all in really large pots. They get beautiful, green and bushy in the summer, but have never given me fruit. I know it takes , 3 years from what I have heard, to get fruit from them,but at least four of them are over 3 years old. What am I doing wrong ? Also, do I need to prune them back in the winter ? |
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RE: My kiwi won't fruit, do I need to prune ?
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| Smokymist - I am in N. VA and I have two female and one male Anna kiwi's that at about 11 years old. Mine have never fruited and this year I decided that the reason is that I have been improperly pruning then. Essentially I have been pruning off the laterals where the fruit will be produced. 5 years after I [planted them I had to move them and that retarded their development. I did not get my first blooms until they had been in their new location 5 years. (That was this year.) I had both male and female blooms (a few) but they did not fruit. For pruning I have read that you need to prune in the late winter leaving your trunk, two laterals and 12-18 inch cross branches. Throughout the growing season you need to prune to prevent the plant from expending its energy in undesirable growth. |
RE: My kiwi won't fruit, do I need to prune ?
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| Hardy kiwis can take a long time to fruit, even with proper pruning. I have a 10-year old plant that has yet to fruit. The fuzzy kiwis fruit faster. Scott |
RE: My kiwi won't fruit, do I need to prune ?
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| Mine took 7-8 years before they ever bloomed. Spring frosts most years burned off all the foliage (maybe blossom buds,too?), necessitating re-leaf. think mine set a few fruit ONE year (I didn't get any of them) before that area of the orchard was bulldozed to put in my wife's tennis court. I didn't shed a tear over the kiwis going away. |
RE: My kiwi won't fruit, do I need to prune ?
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| One of Lee Reich's books seemed to have a good, fairly detailed section on pruning hardy kiwis. |
RE: My kiwi won't fruit, do I need to prune ?
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| Thank you all....well I have all the patience in the world if I need to wait longer. We are hoping to move soon to a place with some land, so all of my fruits and even some of my trees, including figs, are all in gigantic pots ( can you just picture us on moving day ?).....So the consensis is to prune, wait until winter to do so, and just do it carefully ? I need to learn pruning....seriously I do - as I don't prune any of my fruits right now. |
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