Well, something's working, just hope we get some fruit now, first year for flowers ;D
Its a great sight isnt it mine flowered for the first time this year with abundance. Ive given mine a good tickle to spread the pollen around as not to many bees flying at the moment.
heres to little fruits forming right now!
x sunloving
What Kiwi varieties do you two have?
I got fed up with mine this year..they've been in ground 3 years and hardly produced any growth.. >:( Pulled them up and bought different species of kiwi and although they've only been in ground couple of months, they've already done more growth than the first lot ever did.
I chucked the surviving male plant on the bonfire pile..and found out that it thrives on it.. ::)..my soil must have bee too demanding for it and now when it is barely touching the soil it has grown more than it ever did before.. ::)
I thik ours is jenny, sold as self fertile ?
5 years in a big toy box, supposed to fruit when the roots fill the box ;D
Can I ask how you are looking after them, pruning them etc, I have had 3 plants for 4 years now and no flowers yet
We gt fed up last year and pruned all the long shoots down to 6 leaves, then we fed them this year with rock dust , co-incidence? ;D
I've had ours about 5 - 6 years (Jenny I believe) and its flowered for the last 3 years and not a single fruit :-[. Just started flowering this week again so can anyone help me get some kiwi's please.
It's a gorgeous flower!
Mine are Jenny's to. Band q sold them off at 99p each about 4 years ago so i got 2. Ive never pruned mine but have them over a tunnel in the front garden. They are such a gorgeous hairy plant that i as happy with them just as decorative but we will see if any fruit set. Its not the greatest time for the pollonators.
The flowers are on last years woody growth.
fingers crossed
x sunloving
This thread has made me think of our little feijoa bush, started four years ago from a seed. It is the most beautiful tasting fruit ever! The bush is now about 3ft tall, and growing nicely. This week my husband espied its first two flowers, the only ones this year, and they are beautiful too. Not dissimilar to kiwi flowers.
(http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/l543/peanuts46/images.jpg)
This photo is off the web, as when I went out to take my own photo the flowers are really over now. I'm just hoping they have been pollinated.
I have a couple of Jennys. One has fruited for the last 3 years, it's about 6 years old. Far more flowers than before so far. I'm surprised it has fruited before as on my plot it isn't in a sheltered place & on our site the end of the plot it is on is about the coldest place on site. The other has grown a lot over the last two years but hasn't flowered at all yet & is about 4 years old. I haven't done anything myself to polinate & feed/care wise I treat them the same as my outdoor grapevines. They propogate easily from autumn cuttings by just sticking them in the ground.