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 I have kiwi also, the common type require a male and female to produce fruit, and mine took 8 years to get old enough to bear.

 

Now they have taken over my fence and I have to prune them too.

 

When you do, you lose all the fruit bearing ends.  In your case, you might not have them yet. But I do, and when I prune the buggers, there is no fruit until the long vine ends regrow.

 

I need to move the vines where I can let them reach like grapes.  So I will be digging this spring.  They were not trellised, they just grew.  I should have trellised, but they were so small for so long, I ignored them.  It wasn't until the last 2 years that they took off in size.

 

Had I been smart, I would have moved them long ago.  But I had given up on their doing anything because they were small.  By the time they had taken off, they had woven into the fence.  More work for me.  And a lesson learned.