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["Hal Love" <lovehd@comcast.net>]

Actinidia graft easily, so you should not have a problem adding a male
branch to the vine. The best time is late spring after the heavy sap flow
has slowed. Since these are probably argutas?, if you graft high, the graft
site could get lost in the vigorous growth, and you may have trouble with
pruning. I would suggest cutting off the vine low, and letting two new
trunks grow back. One could be "green grafted" with the male cutting, and
the other left as all female. That way they could be trained as opposite
cordons. If the root system is mature, they should grow back very quickly,
and may flower the following year. Of course, by then, your lone male may be
flowering well anyway.

Hal

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Brandle" <sbrandle@css.tayloru.edu>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 1:08 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] topworking actinidia to males?


> Speaking of topworking ginkos, can I "topwork" kiwis to males? My lone
> male (the other "male" appears to be female) isn't quite as vigorous as
> the harem and hasn't flowered yet. I've read that this is not unusual,
> but I got to thinking . . .
>
> Any thoughts on whether I could topwork some cuttings from the male onto
> the females to get a female plant with one or more male branches/canes?
>
> If it does work, would grafting onto part of a plant with more biomass
> speed up flowing?
>
> It it does work, and given what I've heard of actinidia's "weak
> pollinator" reputation, would it make sense to topwork some male
> branches throughout the arbor?
>
> -- sb
> Zone 5b, where it suddenly remembered that it is supposed to get cold in
December.
>
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