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> 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
It might have been better to dip them in rooting hormone before winter.