I have ordered a female Hayward variety kiwifruit from Diggers. I don’t have makle yet, but while I was at Mum’s I took a heap of cuttings (50 odd) from her kiwifruit plants. She has both a male and female plant, trouble is one is an early flowering and the other late so of course she has never had any fruit. Also the plants haven’t been pruned for years. Trouble is she doesn’t know what the varieties are :(

I have potted up the cuttings and will wait and see what I come up with. Does anyone know how to tell the difference between the different varities?

sorry, got no idea :)

bluegreen said:

sorry, got no idea :)

Oh well, I guess I’ve got nothing to lose. If the male turns out to be not compatible with my “Hayward” I’ll just buy one. Gotta love the challenge of the cuttings though!

AnneS said:

bluegreen said:

sorry, got no idea :)

Oh well, I guess I’ve got nothing to lose. If the male turns out to be not compatible with my “Hayward” I’ll just buy one. Gotta love the challenge of the cuttings though!

I know zip about Kiwi fruit AnneS ( welcome home, BTW) , but I have to agree the challenges of gardening, getting things to grow and seeing what you get, draws me right in :)

Chinese Gooseberries I know nothing about, nor Kiwifruit either… however, good luck with your cuttings, it does kinda sound like you maybe just transplanting your mum’s problem to your patch? I’d go out and buy a perfectly suitable Male one for your plant and write your mum’s cuttings off as an experiment.

female
Females have white stigma.

male
Males have only yellow anthers.

Hayward is one of the best traditional varieties to grow in the UK, because it flowers later in the season and produces a heavy crop of large fruits with superb flavour. Hayward is a self sterile female plant so it must be planted next to a male plant to provide pollen in order to produce fruit. We recommend planting Kiwi Tomouri as a male plant as this will only produce flowers and aid pollination.

http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/kiwifruit.html