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Kiwi - no fruit, need male flowers?

11 years ago

I have a four year old hardy kiwi vine that has scrambled all over a trellis in my yard. I thought it was self-pollinating, but no fruit despite heavy flowering last year. By online flower photos, I think I identified my plant as a female...so planted a male plant early this year. Right now my female plant is starting to flower, but no flowers on the male. Does anyone have male flowers that I could use to pollinate? Would this work?

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trianglejohn
11 years ago
Where are you located? and are you talking about Hardy Kiwi or Fuzzy Kiwi? In the past I have hung jars of water with cut stems of a friends male flowers in my female vines and it worked. Even now I have trouble getting my males to bloom at the same time as my female flowers.
Boast99
Original Author
11 years ago
Thanks for your message, I am in Chapel Hill and have hardy kiwi. If anyone within an hour has male flowers, I would very much appreciate a few stems!
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trianglejohn
11 years ago
I have both. I'm in south Raleigh right off the beltline. johnbuettner@hotmail.com

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