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

Kiwi don't usually root worth a darn from dormant cuttings.  Most are started from green cuttings in a mist bench with bottom heat.  In that setting they will root in about two weeks.   It is sometimes possible to push a small shoot from a dormant cutting, then put that shoot into a mist bench.  Otherwise, you might try layering a few new vines, as an alternative.
I once visited a kiwi nursery when the propagation was still being worked out and at that time they hadn't discovered the rooting of green cuttings.  Instead, they were growing seedlings and grafting the varieties to the seedlings.  
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
On Jan 9, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Geoffrey Stone wrote:

The two kiwi I purchased (one male, one female) had roots that we snarled in the container.  The seemed to do ok this 1st year but I thought that I'd try to propagate from cuttings as I've heard stories about plants with snarled roots not lasting beyond a few years.  I bundled the cuttings into two by sex and put one each in a pot surrounded with peat moss.  I put these pots in an old tire packed with leaves and put that on the north side of my shed for the winter.  In the spring I plan to put a few of these cutting in several pots with one or two nodes above the surface after dipping the bottom node in a rooting hormone.  This will be my 1st attempt at this.  Does it make sense?  Any suggestions? 
Geoffrey Stone
Black Mountain, NC_______________________________________________
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