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Hardy Kiwi
I know both myself and Rick and talked about a hardy kiwi vines before.
My biggest problem is the vulnerability to late spring frosts. There is a cultivatar, hybridized a mile from my house at MSU, that I wish I owned instead of the common vine I have. This one is more cold resistant.
I've never seen it for sale at a major distributor before until now. Burpee has it as one of their new products for 2013.
http://www.burpee.com/fruit-plants/s...t800002&trail=
If you were thinking about growing this plant, this is the cultivar I'd recommend (and I do also recommend growing the plant, excellent producer, no pest or disease problems, very vigorous).
Coupon for $10 off $40 or more, expires Sunday the 9th at midnight NEW342
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Around here we don't usually get many issues with late frost. I prefer to plant the self fertile variety 'Issai' to max the yield. We can also pull off actual new zealand kiwi but they do grow fast!
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Chris, what zone are you in?
My experiance in zone 5 has been a lot of work to try to stretch the limits of some fruit trees, and other warm area plants......Example: peaches .......Somethimes it works, but you really need to help them out, even those that are supposedly grown for our area.
They grow, but are poor producers.
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Good luck, I just haven't had much luck with plants that are supposed to be "cold hardy".....They die....but are guaranteed, so they do replace the plant or tree...only to die again. Not mentioning any Michigan Bulb names......
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It doesn't die, it just doesn't always fruit. This year with late freezes Michigan lost 98% of the apple crop too.
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Yeah, I know, apples were expensive this year......The Gays mills area, "The Place area", suffered as well, but not as bad as Mich.
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How many plants, trees are needed for cross pollination?
Just thought of this.
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Apples? Or kiwi? Kiwi you need 2, unless you have issai, as you say. Apples can all self pollinate but you can get better yields with a few different varieties.
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