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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

FWIW, grapes in cold climates are often trained to THREE trunks and in
unusually cold winters, 95% of vines so trained came through with at least
one live trunk, while vines with fewer trunks had a much lower rate of
surviving the winter.  Which isn't to say they were lost altogether - they
grow back from below the snow line, but don't have crop that year, while a
vine with a surviving trunk will have at least some crop.
Seems reasonable the same technique would work with kiwi.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, more, plus word on my grape book at
http://www.bunchgrapes.com

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>From: Mauch1@aol.com
>To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [NAFEX] Hardy Kiwi, One trunk or two?
>Date: Wed, Jun 19, 2002, 6:42 AM
>

>Most of the descriptions for training kiwi use one trunk.  I 
>tend to lean towards using two trunks, sort of as "insurance".
>Is there any reason not to have a double trunk? 
>
>Thanks,
>
>Chris Mauchline
>SE PA, zone 6
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