Growing hardy kiwis 

Hi, actinidias arguta and kolomicta are native to my area. Difference in taste between varieties can be quite big. it can be very different in sweetness, tartness and flavour. Some are more like pineapple, some more like apple, and some like very sweet kiwi, or not sweet but tart kiwi. They are hardy to at least 35C, which is in our place. Kolomikta survives to 40C. If you pick them 1-2 weeks before they ripe, they will store for a bit aswell.

Thank you for explaining how you grow your hardy kiwi! Mine are just getting started and will be growing next to a fence, in partial shade. Hope to get fruit this year!

Thanks for the info. We are planning on growing these plants also

Going to have to try growing these good to have late fruits to extend the season and I do like kiwis.

We live in Kentucky and this is the first year our kiwi plant has produced fruit. We are excited to try them. Thank you for the harvest info!

Such a lovely video keep up the good work!

I planted my kiwi vines in a new orchard that was overrun with seedling black walnut trees and roots. they are doing really well in year two.

Hoping to plant some next spring

Nicely presented, thank you.

I CANT WAIT until these start producing in my garden. I have two plants growing up a trellis and have been patiently waiting for some fruit. Hopefully this year 🙏

An amazing garden.

Liked your trellis design. I’m going to do it that way. Thank you. Simple but effective

ty for this video. it was really helpful!

My hardy Kiwis are grown here in the USA in zone 7. I allow the fruits to soften on the vine -which stay on the vine from September until the end of October..they are very very sweet then.

I have a Bavarian Kiwi that looks like those. This year, after 6 years it had a good harvest. I made chutney from unripe one I picked in Sept. Yesterday I picked the last of them to eat fresh.

I just ordered a bunch of cuttings I will try to get rooted. Here is to hoping I don't kill them!

lot of thanks

good info :) im about to get some hardy kiwis this summer (both actinidia kolomikta and arguta).. in finlans! if i remember maybe i ll come n leave an update after a couple of years here; never know ;)

Oh this a marvelous fruit find for me! I have been doing some research on cold-hardy fruits for a zone 5 garden and these sound like they would be a great addition! Now I just have to find a supplier in Canada! Thank you for sharing so much about them. I always enjoy your videos. (-:

In Massachusetts, the hardy kiwi is considered an invasive plant-perhaps due to the vigorous growth of meters of vines you mentioned.

Very interesting video! I am planning a garden in the Nordics, and I am trying to 'spread' the harvest across the year. We considered a grape vine (because we like them !), but I think this fits the plan rather better. I suppose that as you are making jam they don't freeze very well?

I am so happy to have found another person from the netherlands on here. Great video. Do you ever do tours?

Thanks for all the info. I live in Maine USA and just bought 2 Issai plants that are self pollinating. Hope w do you preserve the fruit?

After this video last year I bought Scarlet Red and her boyfriend from Lubera. Now waiting impatiently for them to start flowering, haha. We're in Haarlem, so even milder climate than yours and I'm full of hope :)

Miss you can laugh at me if you like but here is how my attic kiwi vine experience has been....i planted a female plant. 9 years ago and have it on a circular trellis about 8 feet tall or 2.2 meters to you guys...it has grown to cover both the trellis and the front quarter of my house giving me shade and cooling my front room in summer....i have to prune it at least twice a year or the whips will grow and cover the nearby tree...im in the US in TN and it seems to love the hot humid weather and so far has lived through the winter when it got to minus 3 degrees below zero

Awesome! Thanks for sharing I planted am Issai kiwi a few years ago it's healthy but only has produced the start of small fruit but so far have always dropped off and not produced... Although I'm waiting to see if/how much it will produce by itself

Very informative from india

'nice............thanks for sharing. tried growing a couple in California; but they got baked by the sun. If they can tolerate shade I'll try again.

Mine are starting their second full season. I bought them very small so i hope they start climbing and grow this year. How much would you say they grow in one year?

How long did it took to give fruit from the time you bought and if it was small then ?

Thank you! Btw, you can eat fuzzy kiwi skin! You get triple the fiber that way. Jjust a little bit of fuzz to get past your mouth and you're good to go =)

Ready to plant a hardy kiwi plant where I live in Sacramento California

Have the red hardy kiwi started to flower this year? Love your channel!

Please may I get some seed form you this year by post for me to grow kiwi?

How old is your kiwi plant. Is it a self pollenating variety and all hard kiwi plants are self pollinators.

What is the minumum space appart for growing issia hard kiwi? Could they grow in a raised bed 4 feet apart from other plants?

I'm growing kiwis and it took 5 years to get flowers and fruit. I'm not sure how they pollinate since no bees were seen on any flowers. I had one poorly damaged probably due to too much rain. All of the stems/leaves look dead. They seem sensitive. Hopefully I'll have my first taste this fall.

I think it’s Veiki variety

Where are you from? Nice video... I'm nearly at the same stage as you but on more varieties, planted in Switzerland... I'll be happy to share expériences and knowledge.

I have an issai kiwi plant. It’s self-fertile but we just finished up year two and didn’t get flowers or fruit. I’m wondering if I should buy a pollinator.

can it grow in a very shady place at subtropical land? i think it will be good as wall cover if it can happy gardening vera

Hello, what type of fence do you use to grow this? Do you think a wooden trellis will be strong enough to hold a mature hardy kiwi plant?

You mentioned that you grow the male plant as a "v." What does that look like? How do you not let that one take up so much space?

I have two hardy kiwis at least they were sold to me as that for seven years and even though they bloom no fruit has ever set. I thought they did not have to be male and female as they sold to me as self pollinating.Any suggestions?

Hai I want this plant

When do you put them in the ground

This is something I've been hoping to add to our garden, but have had some doubts about the scale and vigour. Great to see how you're doing it.

So...why would I eat the same kiwi in a smaller version? Any taste difference?

What zone are you in?

I think of them as "kiwi grapes"

Do they self seed

Do they grow in the tropics?

How do you eat that?

please push the translater-button, my english is not good enough to understand your intresting video Silke from bavaria

What kind of trellising technique is that?

I just bought one and I’m 2 days it grew a foot tall🤪

But where are you?

my kiwi fruit never make it home. I eat them while i'm working on the plot. my plant is obviously self pollinating because no one else on site has one.....................brian