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

Both.

For female vines, you want to summer prune a bit in order to remove
excessively vigorous shoots that are wrapping themselves where they don't
belong, but leave plenty of leaves when fruit are present. Males can be
pruned hard right after bloom.

Dormant pruning mostly involves removing old wood and cutting long shoots
from the previous year's growth back to spurs, similar to spur-pruning
grapes. The idea is to maintain a permanent trunk, cordons, and laterals,
with one-year old spurs. Kiwifruit vines produce most if not all their fruit
on new growth from one-year old wood. One-third of the oldest laterals or
spurs should be removed at every dormant pruning on a mature vine.

A good site describing the process is
http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-1084/.

Hal

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