Hello All. Haven't been here for a while. Hope you're all thriving.

We have a Kiwi Fruit vine in the greenhouse. Leafless at the moment but
once it's back in leaf it will again start it frantic attempt to get out
through the roof.

We are wondering whether to train it onto the bottom of a big new
trellis within the greenhouse, forcing it to fill the whole trellis
before reaching the roof

OR

whether to plant it on a trellis outside. However, we are nervous about
doing this because this little valley in South Shropshire is a bit of
frostbowl in winter. For example, our choisias have simply not survived
here. We're 250m above sea level.

Is a Kiwi Fruit likely to survive outside in this location?

Thanks,
Eddy.

On 10 Mar, 14:26, Eddy
wrote:
Hello All. Haven't been here for a while. Hope you're all thriving.

We have a Kiwi Fruit vine in the greenhouse. Leafless at the moment but
once it's back in leaf it will again start it frantic attempt to get out
through the roof.

We are wondering whether to train it onto the bottom of a big new
trellis within the greenhouse, forcing it to fill the whole trellis
before reaching the roof

OR

whether to plant it on a trellis outside. However, we are nervous about
doing this because this little valley in South Shropshire is a bit of
frostbowl in winter. For example, our choisias have simply not survived
here. We're 250m above sea level.

Is a Kiwi Fruit likely to survive outside in this location?

Thanks,
Eddy.

We grew a pair farily high up in the Cotswolds for twenty years and
never had a problem, even when it was down at -10*C. Having moved, we
have now abandoned the project; we only had flowers once in that time
and never any fruit. Probably a pruning failure, I used to cut it back
hard to keep it under control.

Jonathan

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from Eddy contains these words:

Is a Kiwi Fruit likely to survive outside in this location?

Yes.

I hope you have a self-fertile variety? My year-old vines have survived
this winter, and here in East Anglia we've had sub-zero temperatures for
weeks on end - some of them rather crisp...

--
Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
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Rusty_Hinge wrote:

The message
from Eddy contains these words:

Is a Kiwi Fruit likely to survive outside in this location?

Yes.

I hope you have a self-fertile variety? My year-old vines have survived
this winter, and here in East Anglia we've had sub-zero temperatures for
weeks on end - some of them rather crisp...

Jonathan and Rusty, thanks, this sounds like good news.

I forgot to say that besides the choisias dying here because of the cold
we've also lost IN THE GREENHOUSE two bougainvilleas and a hibiscus.
The Kiwifruit survives in the greenhouse but it's in few of the other
losses that we've been so wary of putting it outside.

Eddy.

The message
from Eddy contains these words:
Rusty_Hinge wrote:
The message
from Eddy contains these words:

Is a Kiwi Fruit likely to survive outside in this location?

Yes.

I hope you have a self-fertile variety? My year-old vines have survived
this winter, and here in East Anglia we've had sub-zero temperatures for
weeks on end - some of them rather crisp...

Jonathan and Rusty, thanks, this sounds like good news.

I forgot to say that besides the choisias dying here because of the cold
we've also lost IN THE GREENHOUSE two bougainvilleas and a hibiscus.
The Kiwifruit survives in the greenhouse but it's in few of the other
losses that we've been so wary of putting it outside.

I wouldn't know a choisia(s?) if it tripped me up. Bourgainvilleas -
know little of them, but hibiscus survives outside here - well, there
are a couple of slightly different ones which predate my occupation by a
significant period, judging from their size.

Spalding Bulbs and Plants are offering a mini Chinese Gooseberry (AKA
Kiwi) with small fruit which (allegedly) needs no peeling.

--
Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk

I bought a self fertile variety last year (Jenny) planting it outside. I thought that there was no way that it would have survived the winter we have just had, but how wrong I was. It is thriving.