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[Caren Kirk <quirky@videotron.ca>]

 Dan, I have a rasied wooden deck and have A. Kolomikta growing up the 
side up a wooden trellis. It's just your common meduim spaced wooden 
trellis from a hardware store.  After getting established they've grown 
fairly vigorously in the last year.

This year I want to extend my deck and so I plan to dig them up. I want 
to move them and make another trellis for them because they started 
taking over my hand railing as well. To move them I am going to have to 
cut them back quite brutally, but I'm pretty confident they'll be fine. 
I agree that you need to keep them well trimmed, although I can't 
compare them with A. Arguta as I don't have any.

Enjoy your plants, I'm very impressed with mine. I just need to nail 
down the perfect harvesting technique come September/ October!

Caren Kirk
St. Jerome, QC

On 3/4/2012 5:42 PM, Dan Nave wrote:
> I bought a male and female Arctic Kiwi (Actinidia Kolomikta) for spring 
> delivery and had thought to
> grow them up a tree trunk.  As you don't recommend that, I have another space 
> where they may get
> more sun but they will still have to go up a vertical trellis rather than 
> across a horizontal
> trellis.  As the plants are Kolomiktas they won't be as vigorous or as large 
> as the other Kiwis.
> Can you give any recommendations about making a vertical trellis?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
> On 3/4/2012 2:56 PM, Scott Smith wrote:
> > Steve, the main thing about growing kiwis close together is to allocate space 
> > for each one.  I wouldn't recommend growing up a tree, it will be hard to 
> > harvest and if its gets out of hand your only recourse is to chop it down.  
> > It also won't get any sun under a big oak.  My recommendation is build say a 
> > 10' trellis and put the male 1' from one end and the female 4' from the 
> > other.  Let the female take up 8' of the trellis and the male 2'.  Cut back 
> > brutally if they cross.  There is no reason to have a male take up any more 
> > than 2', that is plenty of flowers.  You need to hedge them at least twice 
> > per summer and prune way back in the winter like grape pruning.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > On Mar 4, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Steven Covacci wrote:
> >
> > > In order to save space, is it ok to plant both the fruiting female hardy kiwi 
> > > along with the male pollinator in the same hole; or will only one (likely the 
> > > male) thrive and, eventually, displace the female?
> > > As an alternative, is it ok to plant the vines, each, 10 feet away from a 
> > > tree - both being on polar-opposite ends from each other, so that they both 
> > > head for the tree (coming from opposite directions) and then meet up when the 
> > > climb the tree.  I have a huge oak tree with all the lower limbs cut down, so 
> > > the tree would be a good nature trellis/host for the 2 vines.  Or would 
> > > still, one out-compete the other?  If so, I would think the vine would still 
> > > live, as the first 10-feet (before the tree ascent) would be free of mutual 
> > > competition.
> > > Thank you,
> > > Steve; NJ
> > >
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