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About 6 or 8 years ago I bought some Kiwi fruit in Tesco and after
eating them I went all schoolboy again and planted the seeds/stones(?). They grew into sturdy plants and over the years put on a lot of growth. This year for the first time they are flowering! I was reconciled to their never doing that. Now I'm wondering if they may fruit too! Has anyone here got one that fruits? Hugh -- Hugh Newbury www.evershot-weather.org |
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"Hugh Newbury" wrote in message ... About 6 or 8 years ago I bought some Kiwi fruit in Tesco and after eating them I went all schoolboy again and planted the seeds/stones(?). They grew into sturdy plants and over the years put on a lot of growth. This year for the first time they are flowering! I was reconciled to their never doing that. Now I'm wondering if they may fruit too! Has anyone here got one that fruits? Hugh -- Hugh Newbury www.evershot-weather.org Take a good look at the flowers because you will need a female and at least 1 male to get a fruit set, there are hermaphrodite forms on the market but you are unlikely to get one of these from seed. If you have a matched pair then fruit set can be quite good and some years you will have gluts, as most things it depends on the sort of summer we get! -- Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella and Lapageria rosea cvs http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk |
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Hugh Newbury wrote:
About 6 or 8 years ago I bought some Kiwi fruit in Tesco and after eating them I went all schoolboy again and planted the seeds/stones(?). Are you sure you mean kiwi fruit? The seeds are tiny little things, and normally eaten with the fruit. |
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On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:26:09 +0100, Hugh Newbury
wrote: About 6 or 8 years ago I bought some Kiwi fruit in Tesco and after eating them I went all schoolboy again and planted the seeds/stones(?). They grew into sturdy plants and over the years put on a lot of growth. This year for the first time they are flowering! I was reconciled to their never doing that. Now I'm wondering if they may fruit too! Has anyone here got one that fruits? Hugh They certainly do grow from the seed. (To small to be stones!) As Charlie says, it just depends if you have a male and a female. Good luck! We had some germinate once but never got to fruiting them. I rmemember once on GQT somebody saying that she planted a whole kiwi friut! I can't remember the question rf the answers, just the amazement of the team that she planted the whole fruit with so many seeds. Pam in Bristol |
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Janet wrote:
Are you sure you mean kiwi fruit? The seeds are tiny little things, and normally eaten with the fruit. But very easy to germinate. I've had kiwis germinate from the compost heap; must have been a rotten fruit I'd thrown out. You know, of all the random fruit seeds I grew on my window sill when I was at uni, kiwi were never one that even sprang to mind. I may have to give it a go. (apple, tangerine, nectarine, mango, lychee all made it to plants, though - the nectarine was probably the first, from a stone that had 2 seeds already growing through it when I got to the centre of the fruit! All but the apples have since perished, unfortunately.) |
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Sacha wrote:
About 6 or 8 years ago I bought some Kiwi fruit in Tesco and after eating them I went all schoolboy again and planted the seeds/stones(?). Are you sure you mean kiwi fruit? The seeds are tiny little things, and normally eaten with the fruit. It was so long ago I've actually forgotten what they were. But now you mention it, I do seem to remember tiny seeds from one of the exotica I grew at that time. I also have a pawpaw which is still smallish, but surviving in the greenhouse. And a pomegranate looks healthy sharing a bed with one of the kiwis. (No chance of them producing offspring, I suppose? A little kigranate or tiny pomewi?) Hugh Kiwi fruit seeds are like grains of ground black pepper. That's not to say you *couldn't* plant them but as Vicky says, they're more often eaten! I was just a bit confused by the idea that a kiwi fruit might have a stone! |
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In article , Sacha wrote:
About 6 or 8 years ago I bought some Kiwi fruit in Tesco and after eating them I went all schoolboy again and planted the seeds/stones(?). I think the OP has posted that he might have mis-remembered what he actually ate and what he actually planted. Sounds like it to me. I've never tried to plant Kiwi fruit seeds so I'm certainly not saying it can't be done but it seems that the effort involved might have prodded the memory! My money is on it being a loquat or litchi (a.k.a. leechee, a.k.a. any other spelling of it you like). Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On Jun 11, 3:19*pm, Janet wrote:
In article , says... Hugh Newbury wrote: About 6 or 8 years ago I bought some Kiwi fruit in Tesco and after eating them I went all schoolboy again and planted the seeds/stones(?). Are you sure you mean kiwi fruit? *The seeds are tiny little things, and normally eaten with the fruit. * But very easy to germinate. I've had kiwis germinate from the compost heap; must have been a rotten fruit *I'd thrown out. * *Janet We have kiwis, (M&F) We get fruit but they are very small and inedible so far. |
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On Jun 11, 5:04*pm, Janet wrote:
In article , says... Janet wrote: Are you sure you mean kiwi fruit? *The seeds are tiny little things, and normally eaten with the fruit. *But very easy to germinate. I've had kiwis germinate from the compost heap; must have been a rotten fruit *I'd thrown out. You know, of all the random fruit seeds I grew on my window sill when I was at uni, kiwi were never one that even sprang to mind. *I may have to give it a go. * Ditto :-) It was an accidental surprise. If you are a fan of plants with interesting stems and foliage, they are well worth growing for handsome looks, and completely winter hardy where I live.. last winter mine came through -6C without a blink. All you need is enough outdoor space to let them ramp away. I've never seem fruit even on the biggest oldest one I know (which smothers a wall 8 ft high and about 10 ft across) but that's because most are not self-fertile. And if you had one doing its thing you'd need a big garden for its mate. * Janet. Our's came through minus 15deg so Winter hardy. |
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In article , Sacha wrote:
I'm trying to remember - was it Kiwi that was found growing right up into mature trees when the Lost Gardens of Heligan were being restored? I think whatever-it-was was in the Italian Garden. It wouldn't be surprising. Bean doesn't give heights for A. chinensis, but the others are all of the order of 20'. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On Jun 12, 9:20*am, Sacha wrote:
On 2011-06-11 16:22:31 +0100, Pam Moore said: On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:26:09 +0100, Hugh Newbury wrote: About 6 or 8 years ago I bought some Kiwi fruit in Tesco and after eating them I went all schoolboy again and planted the seeds/stones(?).. They grew into sturdy plants and over the years put on a lot of growth.. This year for the first time they are flowering! I was reconciled to their never doing that. Now I'm wondering if they may fruit too! Has anyone here got one that fruits? Hugh They certainly do grow from the seed. (To small to be stones!) As Charlie says, it just depends if you have a male and a female. Good luck! We had some germinate once but never got to fruiting them. I rmemember once on GQT somebody saying that she planted a whole kiwi friut! *I can't remember the question rf the answers, just the amazement of the team that she planted the whole fruit with so many seeds. Pam in Bristol I'm trying to remember - was it Kiwi that was found growing right up into mature trees when the Lost Gardens of Heligan were being restored? *I think whatever-it-was was in the Italian Garden. -- Sachawww.hillhousenursery.com South Devon- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - As you go up the drive to RNIB Manor House in Torquay the retaining wall which is around 20ft high is/ was covered with an old Actinidia, from the days before anyone knew about "Kiwi fruit", grown for foliage. |
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