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[Dan Nave <nave1@comcast.net>]

I'm no expert, but that sounds like a bad idea to me.  What if your male is more vigorous?  How are 
you going to tell which is which if you need to prune?  At least, if they are planted in separate 
holes, you can follow the vines up from the ground.  But, that's just my opinion without actually 
having tried it...

Dan



On 8/29/2012 4:12 PM, Caren Kirk wrote:
>    This spring I dug up my male and female A. Kolomikta to extend my
> deck. They have been doing fine in large pots through the exceptionally
> hot summer, and now I am ready to re-plant them next to my brand new
> pergola.
>
> As I am always greedy to have more fruit, I started thinking that maybe
> it could support more plants. Has anyone tried plating more than one
> hardy kiwi in the same hole? I was thinking maybe 2  per trellis post
> (i.e. a male and female in one hole and 2 females in the other).
>
> Do you think there will be problems with one overtaking the other?
>
> I was also contemplating having half of the pergola for kiwi and the
> other half for a grape vine. Would one be too vigorous at the expense of
> the other? Is a blue "Concorde" type grape over a wood deck a bad idea?
>
> Caren Kirk
> St. Jerome, QC, where my poor fruit trees and shrubs have been sorely
> neglected this year